Toward a model of domain-specific search
Allan Hanbury, Mihai Lupu · 2013
We examine what makes a search system domain-specific and find that previous definitions are incomplete. We propose a new definition of domain specific search, together with a corresponding model, to assist researchers, systems designers and system beneficiaries in their analysis of their own domain. This model is then instantiated for two domains: intellectual property search (i.e. patent search) and medical or healthcare search. For each of the two we follow the theoretical model and identify outstanding issues. We find that the choice of dimensions is still an open issue, as linear independence is often absent and specific use-cases, particularly those related to interactive IR, still cannot be covered by the proposed model.