Workshop on Task-based Information Search Systems

该奖项为将于2013年3月14日至15日在北卡罗来纳州教堂山举行的“基于任务的信息搜索系统研讨会”提供支持，目的是讨论设计超越简单搜索并能够支持人们解决潜在需求或任务的新一代信息搜索系统的挑战。虽然当代搜索引擎很擅长帮助人们解决简单的查找任务，但它们在帮助人们从事更复杂的任务方面没有那么有用，因为这些任务的解决可能需要多个搜索会话和多种搜索策略。大多数搜索环境都是为支持一小部分基本搜索任务而量身定做的，为搜索者提供的搜索和与信息交互的选项很少，也几乎没有帮助他们在会话中合成和集成信息。研讨会的参与者是来自学术界和工业界的交互信息检索领域的领先研究人员，他们将讨论将任务模型纳入系统和工具以支持复杂、多搜索和多会话任务的挑战。本研讨会的目标是列举、讨论和记录这些问题，并将其纳入有助于指导这一领域工作的研究议程。具体而言，该讲习班侧重于以下专题：(1)确定、启发、模拟和跟踪任务、进程和状态，包括确定将任务和相关性模型概念化的框架；(2)创建针对特定任务和了解任务的搜索环境，包括开发界面、工具、特征、索引技术和搜索算法；(3)制定研究用户行为和评价基于任务的搜索系统的方法和措施，包括基于会话的措施。研讨会将概述短期、中期和长期研究的方向，为跨学科和国际合作提供种子，并为有兴趣在这一领域工作的研究人员和学生生成统一的多学科参考书目。讲习班将包括初级和代表性不足的与会者，以扩大对计算机科学的参与。讲习班成果将汇总在一份报告中，并将通过讲习班网站(http://ils.unc.edu/taskbasedsearch)和各种出版物)散发。此外，预计搜索工具的一般用户将受益于由此产生的技术进步，这些技术进步将提供更好的工具和服务，以支持跨多个搜索会话的基于任务的检索。

This award provides support for the "Workshop on Task-based Information Search Systems", to be held March 14-15, 2013 in Chapel Hill, NC with the goal to discuss challenges of designing a new generation of information search systems that go beyond simple searches and can support people in resolving a underlying need or task. While contemporary search engines are good at helping people resolve simple look-up tasks, they are not as useful in helping people engaged in more complex tasks whose resolution might require multiple search sessions and multiple search strategies. Most search environments are tailored to support a small set of basic search tasks and provide searchers with few options to search and interact with information, and little to help them synthesize and integrate information across session. Participants of the workshop, leading researchers in interactive information retrieval from academia and industry will discuss challenges of incorporating task models into systems and tools to support complex, multi-search and multi-session tasks. The goal of this workshop is to enumerate, discuss, and document these issues into a research agenda that can help guide work in this field. Specifically, this workshop is focusing on the following topics: (1) identification, elicitation, modeling and tracking of tasks, processes and states, including the identification of frameworks for conceptualizing task and relevance models; (2) creation of task-specific and task-aware search environments, including the development of interfaces, tools, features, indexing techniques and search algorithms; and (3) development of methods and measures for studying user behavior and evaluating task-based search systems, including session-based measures. The workshop will outline directions for short, mid-, and long-term research, seed interdisciplinary and international collaborations and generate a unified and multidisciplinary bibliography for researchers and students interested in working in this area. Workshop will include junior and underrepresented attendees in order to broaden participation in computer science. Workshop results will be summarized in a report that will be disseminated via the workshop web site (http://ils.unc.edu/taskbasedsearch) and various publications. In addition, it is expected that general users of search tools will benefit from resulting advances in technology that will provide better tools and services to support task-based retrieval across multiple search sessions.