Services Computing, 2004 IEEE International Conference on (SCC'04)
"Google by Reformulation": Modeling Search as Successive Refinement
Shanghai, China
September 15-September 18
ISBN: 0-7695-2225-4
Humans naturally employ a process of iterative refinement when they search for information, clarifying their intentions and adjusting their goals in response to what they encounter. We propose to develop tools specifically to facilitate this process, and hypothesize that they will help users converge on their desired information more quickly. This paper presents a layered extension to the Google Web search interface that illustrates the so-called "retrieval by reformulation" paradigm. The tool will serve as a launching point to a wider field of inquiry into user interaction with large information spaces.
Citation:
Stephen Davies, Serdar Badem, Michael D. Williams, Roger King, ""Google by Reformulation": Modeling Search as Successive Refinement," scc, pp.435-440, Services Computing, 2004 IEEE International Conference on (SCC'04), 2004