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Profiling a Non-medical Professional Searcher on a Medical Domain: What Do Search Patterns and Demographic Details Reveal?

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Information Retrieval Technology (AIRS 2011)

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Previous research is able to distinguish search patterns of domain experts and non-domain experts. However, little is known about the finer details of a non-domain expert searcher. This is especially so when a non-domain expert performs a search on an expert type domain. Do non-domain experts search similarly? What can we learn and infer from their search patterns? More importantly can we identify the searcher behind the search? In this paper, we perform a study of non-domain experts search behavior on an expert domain. Our results indicate search patterns can be used to generally classify a non-domain expert searcher.

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  1. School of Information Technology, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia

    Anushia Inthiran & Saadat M. Alhashmi

  2. School of Business, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia

    Pervaiz K. Ahmed

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Wollongong, Dubai Knowledge Village, P.O. Box 20182, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Mohamed Vall Mohamed Salem

  2. Faculty of Engineering and IT, Dubai International Academic City, Block 11, 1st and 2nd Floor, P.O. Box 345015, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Khaled Shaalan

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Wollongong, Dubai Knowledge Village, P.O. Box 20183, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Farhad Oroumchian

  4. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Faculty of Engineering, North Kargar Street, P.O. Box 14395-515, Tehran, Iran

    Azadeh Shakery

  5. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Wollongong, Dubai knowledge Village, P.O. Box 20183, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Halim Khelalfa

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Inthiran, A., Alhashmi, S.M., Ahmed, P.K. (2011). Profiling a Non-medical Professional Searcher on a Medical Domain: What Do Search Patterns and Demographic Details Reveal?. In: Salem, M.V.M., Shaalan, K., Oroumchian, F., Shakery, A., Khelalfa, H. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7097. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25631-8_15

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