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

TY - CHAP

T1 - Comparing Methods for Finding Search Sessions on a Specified Topic

T2 - A Double Case Study

AU - Bogaard, Tessel

AU - Bilgin, Aysenur

AU - Wielemaker, Jan

AU - Hollink, Laura

AU - Ribbens, C R

AU - van Ossenbruggen, Jacco

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Digital libraries

KW - User interests

KW - Log analysis

KW - Word embeddings

KW - Historical Topics

KW - Wikipedia; Popular historical culture

UR - https://www.springerprofessional.de/en/comparing-methods-for-finding-search-sessions-on-a-specified-top/19637216

M3 - Contribution to conference proceedings

SN - 978-3-030-86323-4

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

BT - Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

A2 - Berget, Gerd

A2 - Hall, Mark Michael

A2 - Brenn, Daniel

A2 - Kumpulainen, Sanna

PB - Springer

CY - New York

ER -