CRII: III: Children and Information Retrieval Tasks: Search Intent, Query Suggestions, and Adequate Online Resources

CRII：III：儿童与信息检索任务：搜索意图、查询建议和充足的在线资源

• 批准号: 1565937
• 负责人: Maria Soledad Pera
• 金额: $ 17.5万
• 依托单位: Boise State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-15 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1565937&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CRII; III; Children; Information; Retrieval

Children are introduced to the Web at increasingly young ages. While early exposure can help them build foundational skills vital in a knowledge-rich society, search tools were not designed with children in mind nor do retrieved results explicitly target children. Most engines do not support children's inquiry approaches (or do not support them well) and typically do not return content suitable to children's interests or reading levels. This need is important to address given that early experiences can affect attitudes in using the Web, skill development in making adequate use of resources for personal and educational interests, and the ability to leverage information and use it to make contributions into adulthood. The PI and her team will design and develop software modules as search engine add-ons to meet the needs of children searching the Web. The modules, which will upgrade current computation infrastructure, will be domain-independent, tailored to children, and usable on Google, to locate child-friendly educational- and leisure-related information. Research outputs will facilitate children's engagement with technology by improving their interactions on the Web. The proposed work can potentially further computer science research across a wide range of possible applications to impact the development of increasingly essential research and analysis skills among the general population of K-9 school-aged children and the underserved. Partnerships with Idaho K-9 classrooms will allow the research team to gather feedback from children and teachers and verify the usefulness of the proposed modules in their intended, formal setting. An underrepresented minority in computer science, the female, Hispanic PI will recruit and mentor female and/or Hispanic graduate student researchers. The team will disseminate research results at interdisciplinary conferences, and make educational material produced as part of the research effort available to teachers.The proposed work will advance computer science research and technology and benefit childhood instruction across a wide variety of ages and domains. It will also address three significant problems in web information retrieval for children: search intent, query suggestion, and information filtering. Common Core state standards of education and online sources will help define target content areas. Together, the proposed modules offer children a way to post (natural language) queries that overcome common search challenges. The proposed modules will: (1) identify search intent on-the-fly given a child's natural language or keyword query; (2) suggest queries based on keywords and phrases in child vocabulary lists, literature, content written by children, and subject areas appealing to youngsters; and (3) filter results to meet readability and suitability levels as well as domain categories that children prefer. Researchers will conduct studies to verify module usefulness and measure the degree to which search environments enhanced with these modules can benefit educational tasks. The team will also integrate research and education by facilitating student research, advancing current technology, and contributing to the specific needs of children. For further information see the project web page: http://cs.boisestate.edu/~sole/web/index.html#projects

孩子们接触网络的年龄越来越小。虽然早期接触可以帮助他们建立在知识丰富的社会中至关重要的基础技能，但搜索工具的设计并没有考虑到儿童，检索的结果也没有明确针对儿童。大多数引擎不支持儿童的探究方法（或不能很好地支持），并且通常不会返回适合儿童兴趣或阅读水平的内容。鉴于早期经历会影响使用网络的态度、充分利用资源实现个人和教育兴趣的技能发展，以及利用信息并利用信息为成年做出贡献的能力，解决这一需求很重要。 PI 和她的团队将设计和开发软件模块作为搜索引擎插件，以满足儿童搜索网络的需求。这些模块将升级当前的计算基础设施，将独立于领域，为儿童量身定制，并可在谷歌上使用，以查找适合儿童的教育和休闲相关信息。研究成果将通过改善儿童在网络上的互动来促进他们与技术的接触。拟议的工作有可能在广泛的可能应用中进一步推进计算机科学研究，以影响 K-9 学龄儿童和服务不足的普通人群日益重要的研究和分析技能的发展。与爱达荷州 K-9 教室的合作将使研究团队能够收集儿童和教师的反馈，并验证拟议模块在其预期的正式环境中的有用性。作为计算机科学领域代表性不足的少数群体，女性西班牙裔 PI 将招募和指导女性和/或西班牙裔研究生研究人员。该团队将在跨学科会议上传播研究成果，并向教师提供作为研究工作一部分而制作的教育材料。拟议的工作将推进计算机科学研究和技术，并有益于各个年龄段和领域的儿童教育。它还将解决儿童网络信息检索中的三个重要问题：搜索意图、查询建议和信息过滤。教育和在线资源的共同核心国家标准将有助于定义目标内容领域。总之，所提出的模块为孩子们提供了一种发布（自然语言）查询的方法，克服了常见的搜索挑战。拟议的模块将：（1）根据孩子的自然语言或关键词查询即时识别搜索意图； （2）根据儿童词汇表、文献、儿童撰写的内容以及对青少年有吸引力的主题领域中的关键词和短语提出查询； (3) 过滤结果以满足可读性和适用性级别以及儿童喜欢的领域类别。研究人员将进行研究来验证模块的实用性，并衡量使用这些模块增强的搜索环境有利于教育任务的程度。该团队还将通过促进学生研究、推进当前技术和满足儿童的特定需求来整合研究和教育。有关更多信息，请参阅项目网页：http://cs.boisestate.edu/~sole/web/index.html#projects

项目成果

Query Formulation Assistance for Kids: What is Available, When to Help & What Kids Want

儿童查询制定协助：可用的内容、何时提供帮助

• DOI: 10.1145/3311927.3323131
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
• 作者: Fails, Jerry Alan;Pera, Maria Soledad;Anuyah, Oghenemaro;Kennington, Casey;Wright, Katherine Landau;Bigirimana, William
• 通讯作者: Bigirimana, William

Online searching and learning: YUM and other search tools for children and teachers

在线搜索和学习：YUM 和其他针对儿童和教师的搜索工具

• DOI: 10.1007/s10791-017-9310-1
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Information Retrieval Journal
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Azpiazu, Ion Madrazo;Dragovic, Nevena;Pera, Maria Soledad;Fails, Jerry Alan
• 通讯作者: Fails, Jerry Alan