Information Seeking Support Systems (IS3) Workshop

事实或指向丰富信息资源的指针等信息都得到了很好的满足。然而，目前的搜索引擎并没有为更困难的信息搜索挑战提供支持。对于开放式的、探索性的、面向发现的或面向回忆的任务，只有几种人类行为模型或实用的支持工具，它们既依赖于查询规范，也依赖于结果检查和解释。满足寻求信息以发现和学习的人的需求是一项巨大的挑战，而应对这一挑战所需的工具和服务将是新兴的网络基础设施的根本。开发支持这种信息搜索需求的理论、技术和工具的时间和条件是正确的。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军人物聚集在一起，为支持信息搜索的研究制定短期和长期议程。讲习班特别侧重于以下三个主题：(1)了解探索性搜索行为/模拟探索性搜索行为；(2)为探索性搜索提供系统支持；(3)评价支持探索性搜索的系统。该研讨会将通过确定短期、中期和长期研究的方向，对新兴的寻求信息的研究和开发社区产生影响。讲习班结果将通过讲习班网站(http://www.ils.unc.edu/ISSS_workshop/).)广泛传播可以预见，万维网普通用户将从这一努力中受益，因为将开发更好的工具和服务，以支持持续工作和学习的信息需求。这些成果还将通过向代表性不足的学生、研究人员和从业者开放这一领域，影响信息技术研究和开发领域的多样性。

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.