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The Curious Case of Session Identification

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Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction (CLEF 2020)

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Dividing interaction logs into meaningful segments has been a core problem in supporting users in search tasks for over 20 years. Research has brought up many different definitions: from simplistic mechanical sessions to complex search missions spanning multiple days. Having meaningful segments is essential for many tasks depending on context, yet many research projects over the last years still rely on early proposals. This position paper gives a quick overview of session identification development and questions the widespread use of the industry standard.

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    Florian Dietz

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

    Avi Arampatzis

  2. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Evangelos Kanoulas

  3. Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Theodora Tsikrika

  4. Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stefanos Vrochidis

  5. Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Hideo Joho

  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Christina Lioma

  7. Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Carsten Eickhoff

  8. LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France

    Aurélie Névéol

  9. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

    Linda Cappellato

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    Nicola Ferro

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Dietz, F. (2020). The Curious Case of Session Identification. In: Arampatzis, A., et al. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. CLEF 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12260. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58219-7_6

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