Exploring Search Behaviour in Microblogs

Anirban Chakraborty

doi:10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.8

Exploring Search Behaviour in Microblogs

Anirban Chakraborty

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Abstract

Microblogging sites, like Twitter, have become a common means to share information, participate in topical debate, and express opinions about events or entities. However, the way people search for information in microblogs, and interact with the bearers of this information, is still under-explored, especially when it comes to looking for opinions for a decision-making process. We propose a task-based user study to investigate the search behaviour of users when looking for opinions. We capture users’ clicks and ratings and create a query log dataset. The analysis of this data can provide insights about what elements of a tweet are deemed relevant while searching for opinionated information

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 2017
Publisher	Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.8
Publication status	Published - 5 Sept 2017
Event	Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 5 Sept 2017 → 5 Sept 2017 Conference number: 7 https://eventum.upf.edu/8496/section/7644/11th-european-summer-school-in-information-retrieval-and40-essir-2017and41-.html

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Name	Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
Publisher	Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
ISSN (Electronic)	1477-9358

Symposium

Symposium	Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA)
Abbreviated title	FDIA 2017
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	5/09/17 → 5/09/17
Internet address	https://eventum.upf.edu/8496/section/7644/11th-european-summer-school-in-information-retrieval-and40-essir-2017and41-.html

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Microblog
User Study
Query Log

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Chakraborty, A 2017, Exploring Search Behaviour in Microblogs. in Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 2017. Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA), Barcelona, Spain, 5/09/17. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.8

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Exploring Search Behaviour in Microblogs

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