• Discovery Systems as an Alternative to Stand-Alone Databases. The Example of Primo at BI Norwegian Business School 

      Dabin, Emanuelle; Preminger, Michael (Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education;Vol. 10, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-05-31)
      Discovery systems (DS) harvest metadata from various sources into one central index. This data can be searched through thanks to an intuitive interface, which also redirects users to fulltext resources in their native ...
    • The effect of task type on preferred element types in an XML‐based retrieval system 

      Pharo, Nils; Krahn, Astrid (Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology;62 (9), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-07-05)
      This article examines the influence of task type on the users' preferred level of document elements (full articles, sections, or subsections) during interaction with an XML-version of Wikipedia. We found that in general ...
    • Examining the effect of task stage and topic knowledge on searcher interaction with a “digital bookstore” 

      Pharo, Nils; Nordlie, Ragnar (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This paper reports some results from the experiment of the 2010 INEX interactive track. The experiment was designed to let searchers simulate being at two distinct stages of a work task process. Data were also collected ...
    • OUC's participation in the 2009 INEX Book Track 

      Preminger, Michael; Nordlie, Ragnar; Pharo, Nils (Lecture Notes in Computer Science = Lecture notes in artificial intelligence;6203, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      In this article we describe the Oslo University College's participation in the INEX 2009 Book track. This year's tasks have been featuring complex topics, containing aspects. These lend themselves to use in both the book ...
    • OUC's participation in the 2010 INEX Book Track 

      Preminger, Michael; Nordlie, Ragnar (Lecture Notes in Computer Science = Lecture notes in artificial intelligence;6932, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      In this article we describe the Oslo University College’s participation in the INEX 2010 Book track. The OUC has submitted retrieval results for the “prove it” task with traditional relevance detection combined with some ...
    • OUC's Participation in the 2011 INEX Book Track 

      Preminger, Michael; Nordlie, Ragnar (Lecture Notes in Computer Science = Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure;7424, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      In this article we describe the Oslo University College’s participation in the INEX 2011 Book track. In 2010, the OUC submitted retrieval results for the “Prove It” task with traditional relevance detection combined with ...
    • Overview of the INEX 2009 Interactive Track 

      Pharo, Nils; Nordlie, Ragnar; Fuhr, Norbert; Beckers, Thomas; Fachry, Khairun Nisa (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;6203, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      In the paper we present the organization of the INEX 2009 interactive track. For the 2009 experiments the iTrack has gathered data on user search behavior in a collection consisting of book metadata taken from the online ...
    • Overview of the INEX 2010 Interactive Track 

      Pharo, Nils; Beckers, Thomas; Nordlie, Ragnar; Fuhr, Norbert (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;6932, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      In the paper we present the organization of the INEX 2010 interactive track. For the 2010 experiments the iTrack has gathered data on user search behavior in a collection consisting of book metadata taken from the online ...
    • The SST method: a tool for analysing Web information search processes 

      Pharo, Nils; Järvelin, Kalervo (Information Processing & Management, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004)
      The article presents the search situation transition (SST) method for analysing Web information search (WIS) processes. The idea of the method is to analyse searching behaviour, the process, in detail and connect both the ...
    • Using ‘search transitions’ to study searchers investment of effort: experiences with client and server side logging 

      Pharo, Nils; Nordlie, Ragnar (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;8201, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      We are investigating the value of using the concept ‘search transition’ for studying effort invested in information search processes. In this paper we present findings from a comparative study of data collected from client ...