@inproceedings{90bd425f220a42d2ba064c6091b77db1,
title = "TaskGenie: Crowd-Powered Task Generation for Struggling Search",
abstract = "Search tasks provide a medium for the evaluation of system performance and the underlying analytical aspects of IR systems. Researchers have recently developed new interfaces or mechanisms to support vague information needs and struggling search. However, little attention has been paid to the generation of a unified task set for evaluation and comparison of search engine improvements for struggling search. Generation of such tasks is inherently difficult, as each task is supposed to trigger struggling and exploring user behavior rather than simple search behavior. Moreover, the everchanging landscape of information needs would render old task sets less ideal if not unusable for system evaluation. In this paper, we propose a task generation method and develop a crowd-powered platform called TaskGenie to generate struggling search tasks online. Our experiments and analysis show that the generated tasks are qualified to emulate struggling search behaviors consisting of {\textquoteleft}repeated similar queries{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}quick-back clicks{\textquoteright}, etc. – tasks of diverse topics, high quality and difficulty can be created using this framework. For the benefit of the community, we publicly released the platform, a task set containing 80 topically diverse struggling search tasks generated and examined in this work, and the corresponding anonymized user behavior logs.",
keywords = "SERPs, User behavior, User interaction, Web search",
author = "Luyan Xu and Xuan Zhou and Ujwal Gadiraju",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-62008-0_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-62007-3",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "3--20",
editor = "Zhisheng Huang and Wouter Beek and Hua Wang and Yanchun Zhang and Rui Zhou",
booktitle = "Web Information Systems Engineering",
note = "21st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2020 ; Conference date: 20-10-2020 Through 24-10-2020",
}