Open AccessImage querying by image professionals
Author(s) -
Jörgensen Corinne,
Jörgensen Peter
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
proceedings of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8390
pISSN - 0044-7870
DOI - 10.1002/meet.1450400143
Subject(s) - information retrieval , computer science , image (mathematics) , keyword search , relation (database) , thematic map , web search query , thematic analysis , world wide web , search engine , data mining , artificial intelligence , qualitative research , social science , cartography , sociology , geography
Abstract This paper reports the analysis of search logs from a commercial image provider over a one‐month period and discusses the results in relation to previous findings. The study analyzes image searches, image queries composing the search, user search modification strategies, results returned, and user browsing of results. Unique term searches are less frequent than earlier research has shown, with more descriptive and thematic queries occurring. Boolean searching, while heavily employed, appears to be ineffective and leads to query modifications. While there was a large amount of query modification (55.8% of queries), the tactics overall do not appear to be carefully thought out but rather seem to be largely experimental. Given the willingness to modify queries but the inability to do so, much more support for query modification could be offered.