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Title:
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PROFESSIONAL SEARCH: REQUIREMENTS, PROTOTYPE AND PRELIMINARY EXPERIENCE REPORT |
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Author(s):
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Alex Kohn , François Bry , Alexander Manta |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-68-3 |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Dirk Ifenthaler |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Professional search, meta-search engine, adaptation, metadata, search log mining, tagging, YASA |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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195 |
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Last Page:
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202 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Within a decade, search has become a standard service of everyday life. As a consequence, public, general purpose search
engines such as Google and Yahoo! are being used more and more in the workplace behind the companies' firewalls
raising expectations of the intranet search, which are far ahead of what can be fulfilled by todays intranet search engines.
This article is devoted to professional search, that is, search in the workplace, especially in industrial research and
development. It investigates what makes professional search so different from public search. First, requirements for
professional search are presented. Second, the professional search prototype YASA (Your Adaptive Search Agent) is
described. YASA has been conceived with and for industrial pharmaceutical researchers at Roche Penzberg, a research
centre of a major pharmaceutical company. Third, this article reports on first experiences gained from experimentally
deploying YASA. These experiments point to the relevance of the above-mentioned requirements. Finally, extensions to
the current YASA prototype are discussed that aim at better fulfilling the needs of professional search. |
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