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

越来越多的孩子在很小的时候就开始接触网络。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本技能，但搜索工具的设计并没有考虑到儿童，检索结果也没有明确针对儿童。大多数引擎不支持儿童的查询方法（或者不支持得很好），通常不会返回适合儿童兴趣或阅读水平的内容。考虑到早期的经历会影响使用网络的态度，为个人和教育兴趣充分利用资源的技能发展，以及在成年后利用信息并利用它做出贡献的能力，这种需求很重要。PI和她的团队将设计和开发作为搜索引擎附加组件的软件模块，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，它们将独立于领域，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，促进他们与技术的接触。拟议的工作可能会进一步推动计算机科学研究的广泛应用，以影响K-9学龄儿童和服务不足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小组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设置中的有用性。作为计算机科学领域的少数群体，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。该小组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，并使各种年龄和领域的儿童教育受益。本文还讨论了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。共同核心州教育标准和在线资源将有助于确定目标内容领域。总之，这些模块为孩子们提供了一种发布（自然语言）查询的方式，克服了常见的搜索挑战。提出的模块将：(1)根据儿童的自然语言或关键字查询实时识别搜索意图；(2)根据儿童词汇表中的关键词和短语、文学作品、儿童撰写的内容以及儿童感兴趣的主题领域提出查询建议；(3)过滤结果以满足儿童喜欢的可读性和适用性水平以及领域类别。研究人员将进行研究，以验证模块的有用性，并衡量使用这些模块增强的搜索环境对教育任务有益的程度。该团队还将通过促进学生研究、推进当前技术和为儿童的特殊需求做出贡献来整合研究和教育。欲了解更多信息，请参阅项目网页：http://cs.boisestate.edu/~sole/web/index.html#projects

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