A Re-classification of Information Seeking Tasks and Their Computational Solutions
Zhiwen Tang, Grace Hui Yang · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · 2022
This article presents a re-classification of information seeking (IS) tasks, concepts, and algorithms. The proposed taxonomy provides new dimensions to look into information seeking tasks and methods. The new dimensions include number of search iterations, search goal types, and procedures to reach these goals. Differences along these dimensions for the information seeking tasks call for suitable computational solutions. The article then reviews machine learning solutions that match each new category. The article ends with a review of evaluation campaigns for IS systems.