The planning for a music information retrieval testbed must include consideration of the potential users for a music collection and their information needs. In particular, we must have a clear idea of what an MIR system’s potential users are looking for, how they describe the object of their search, and how they approach the task of fulfilling their information needs.

Today information management technology faces two major related challenges. One is to tame the information and options explosion that are upon us. Another is to support the information needs in the ubiquitous environments that are being created. These two challenges have received considerable attention from various segments of information management technology research community. Some of the su...

Our aim of participating in this year’s High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents (HARD) track is to explore the possibility of developing an automated HARD retrieval model by leveraging existing models and theories about information need negotiation in information science. The clarification questions we developed are related to four different aspects of search topic, and four different techniques...

This position paper supports the idea of the information dialog between IR systems and users during an information search task. In order to satisfy the communication and interaction needs of humans, IR systems should explicitly support the cognitive abilities of the users. An information dialogue which does not only support an individual query but also the complete search process is necessary. ...

The main aim of this study is to demonstrate how important it is for Spain’s public universities to provide information on their intellectual capital in order to satisfy their users’ information needs. So, an empirical study was conducted to analyse the opinion held by the Social Councils of Spain’s public universities regarding the need for Spanish public universities to publish information on...

Information retrieval (IR) is an effective mechanism for text management that has received widespread adoption in the world at large. But it is not a particularly creative mechanism, in the sense of creating new conceptual structures or reorganizing existing ones to pull in documents that describe, in novel and inventive ways, a user’s information needs. Since language is a dynamic and highly c...

Introduction. Women are active information seekers, particularly in the context of managing health for themselves and their families. Rural living may present particular challenges and opportunities for women in their health information seeking. Method. Forty women living in a rural part of Ontario, Canada were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. They were asked about their hea...

Throughout an entire decade, the Internet has brought unmanageable amounts of information to the average user’s fingertips. Since this growth will only continue, it is vital that users are supported in converting this universe of information into improved productivity and opportunity instead of being swamped and paralyzed. Failing to address information overload will cost enterprises and indivi...

The main objective of Information Retrieval (IR) systems is to satisfy searchers’ needs. A great deal of research has been conducted in the past to attempt to achieve a better insight into searchers’ needs and the factors that can potentially influence the success of an Information Retrieval and Seeking (IR&S) process. One of the factors which has been considered is searchers’ emotion. It has b...

Improving the public's understanding of statistical information requires that producers or reporters of statistical messages are aware of: The nature of people's statistics literacy, The factors that affect the difficulty of statistics-related messages, The existence of individual or group differences in statistics literacy; and The information needs of different target audiences. Implications ...