Information Seeking Support Systems (IS3) Workshop

诸如事实或指向丰富信息资源的指针之类的信息很好地得到满足。然而，当前的搜索引擎并没有提供对更困难的信息搜索挑战的支持。对于开放式、探索性、面向发现或面向回忆的任务，只有少数人类行为模型或实际支持工具，这些任务既依赖于查询规范，也依赖于结果检查和解释。满足人们寻找信息以发现和学习的需求是一项巨大的挑战，而满足这一挑战所需的工具和服务将是新兴网络基础设施的基础。发展理论、技术和工具来支持这种信息寻找需求的时机和条件已经成熟。这个为期两天的研讨会旨在将信息检索、图书馆和信息科学以及人机交互领域的领导者聚集在一起，为支持信息检索的研究制定短期和长期议程。研讨会特别关注以下三个主题：(i)理解/建模探索性搜索行为；为探索性搜索提供系统支助；（iii）评估支持探索性搜索的系统。本次研讨会将通过确定短期、中期和长期的研究方向，对新兴的信息寻求研究和开发社区产生影响。讲习班的成果将通过讲习班网站（http://www.ils.unc.edu/ISSS_workshop/）广泛传播。可以预见，万维网的广大用户将从这一努力中受益，因为将开发更好的工具和服务来支持正在进行的工作和学习的信息需求。这些结果也会影响资讯科技研究和发展领域的多样性，使这一领域向代表性不足的学生、研究人员和实践者开放。

information such as facts or pointers to rich information resources are well met. However, support for the more difficult challenges of information seeking is not provided by the current search engines. There are only a few models of human behavior or practical support tools for open-ended, exploratory, discovery-oriented, or recall-oriented tasks that depend as much on results examination and interpretation as on query specification. Meeting the needs of people who seek information to discover and learn is a grand challenge, and the tools and services needed to meet this challenge will be fundamental to the emerging cyberinfrastructure. The time and conditions are right to develop the theory, techniques, and tools to support such information seeking needs. This two-day workshop aims to bring together leaders in information retrieval, library and information science, and human-computer interaction to shape the short- and long-term agenda for research to support information seeking. In particular the workshop focuses on the following three themes: (i) Understanding / modeling exploratory search behavior; (ii) Providing system support for exploratory search; and (iii) Evaluating systems to support exploratory search. This workshop will have impact on the emerging information seeking research and development community by defining directions for short, mid, and long-term research. Workshop results will be widely disseminated via the workshop website (http://www.ils.unc.edu/ISSS_workshop/). It can be foreseen that general population of WWW users will benefit from this effort, as better tools and services to support information needs for ongoing work and learning will be developed. These results will also impact diversity in the IT research and development area by opening up this area to underrepresented students, researchers and practitioners.