Comparing Methods for Finding Search Sessions on a Specified Topic: A Double Case Study

Tessel Bogaard; Aysenur Bilgin; Jan Wielemaker; Laura Hollink; C R Ribbens; Jacco van Ossenbruggen

Comparing Methods for Finding Search Sessions on a Specified Topic: A Double Case Study

Tessel Bogaard, Aysenur Bilgin, Jan Wielemaker, Laura Hollink, C R Ribbens, Jacco van Ossenbruggen

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies

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Abstract

Users searching for different topics in a collection may show distinct search patterns. To analyze search behavior of users searching for a specific topic, we need to retrieve the sessions containing this topic. In this paper, we compare different topic representations and approaches to find topic-specific sessions. We conduct our research in a double case study of two topics, World War II and feminism, using search logs of a historical newspaper collection. We evaluate the results using manually created ground truths of over 600 sessions per topic. The two case studies show similar results: The query-based methods yield high precision, at the expense of recall. The document-based methods find more sessions, at the expense of precision. In both approaches, precision improves significantly by manually curating the topic representations. This study demonstrates how different methods to find sessions containing specific topics can be applied by digital humanities scholars and practitioners.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
Subtitle of host publication	25th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2021, Virtual Event, September 13–17, 2021, Proceedings
Editors	Gerd Berget, Mark Michael Hall, Daniel Brenn, Sanna Kumpulainen
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Springer
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-86324-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-86323-4
Publication status	Published - 2021

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

Keywords

Digital libraries
User interests
Log analysis
Word embeddings
Historical Topics
Wikipedia; Popular historical culture

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Bogaard, T., Bilgin, A., Wielemaker, J., Hollink, L., Ribbens, C. R., & van Ossenbruggen, J. (2021). Comparing Methods for Finding Search Sessions on a Specified Topic: A Double Case Study. In G. Berget, M. M. Hall, D. Brenn, & S. Kumpulainen (Eds.), Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries: 25th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2021, Virtual Event, September 13–17, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer. https://hdl.handle.net/1871.1/0a1ee28b-be5d-4beb-972e-3b2e587dcf09

Bogaard, Tessel ; Bilgin, Aysenur ; Wielemaker, Jan et al. / Comparing Methods for Finding Search Sessions on a Specified Topic : A Double Case Study. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries: 25th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2021, Virtual Event, September 13–17, 2021, Proceedings. editor / Gerd Berget ; Mark Michael Hall ; Daniel Brenn ; Sanna Kumpulainen. New York : Springer, 2021. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Bogaard T, Bilgin A, Wielemaker J, Hollink L, Ribbens CR, van Ossenbruggen J. Comparing Methods for Finding Search Sessions on a Specified Topic: A Double Case Study. In Berget G, Hall MM, Brenn D, Kumpulainen S, editors, Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries: 25th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2021, Virtual Event, September 13–17, 2021, Proceedings. New York: Springer. 2021. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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