New Tools and Old Habits: The Interactive Searching Behavior of Expert Online Searches using INQUERY
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We present data that describe the interactive searching behavior of ten searchers using the INQUERY retrieval engine in the context of the TREC routing task We dis cuss how these searchers with a strong background in the use of traditional online retrieval mechanisms adapted after very limited training to the use of a best match ranked output full text retrieval mechanism
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