DAEDALUS at LogCLEF 2010: Analyzing the Success of Search Queries

This paper describes the participation of DAEDALUS at the LogCLEF task. The focus of our experiments was to study if the difference between the native language of the user and the interface language could affect the way in which the user interacts with the search application and the success of the search queries. First, the provided log data was parsed into 194,040 sessions containing the set of sequential actions carried out by the same user. Then, only those sessions that include at least one search query were selected, 16% of the total number of sessions. Within that session set, a total number of 388,272 queries have been run, only 6.45% of which were successful, i.e. return any result, thus resulting in 10.6% of successful sessions. After a statistical correlation analysis of these figures, the main conclusion that can be drawn is that, in the general case, the fact that the native language is used or not as the interface language doesn't seem to affect to the success rate of...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: Sara Lana-Serrano, Julio Villena-Román, José Carlos González Cristóbal
• Keywords: CLEF 2010, Information Technology, Interface Language, Native Language, Search Queries