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Conversational Information Seeking
Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval, 2023 Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions between one or more users and an information system. Interactions in CIS are primarily based on natural language dialogue, while they may include other types of interactions, such as click, touch, and body gestures.
Hamed Zamani +3 more
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Information-seeking in the brain
, 2021 Recent advancements in psychology, behavioral economics and neuroscience have shown the human pursuit of knowledge to be an essential aspect of human cognition. It drives intellectual development, is integral to social interactions, and is crucial for learning, decision-making and goal-directed behavior.
Caroline J Charpentier +1 more
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Seeking out non-public information : sell-side analysts and the freedom of information act [PDF]
, 2019 A number of sell-side healthcare analysts gain access to information outside the purview of management through Freedom of Information Act requests to the Food and Drug Administration for records on factory inspections, complaints, and drug and medical ...
Klein, April, Li, Tao, Zhang, Bobo
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Neural Circuitry of Information Seeking [PDF]
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2020 Humans and animals navigate uncertain environments by seeking information about the future. Remarkably, we often seek information even when it has no instrumental value for aiding our decisions – as if the information is a source of value in its own right. In recent years, there has been a flourishing of research into these non-instrumental information
Ethan Bromberg-Martin, Ilya E. Monosov
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Seeking alcohol information on the Internet [PDF]
, 2004 It has been argued that people may be more willing to seek potentially threatening information on the Internet than they would in ‘real life’ (Joinson and Banyard, 2002).
Banyard, P, Joinson, AN
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Investigating the information-seeking behaviour of academic lawyers: From Ellis's model to design. [PDF]
, 2007 Information-seeking is important for lawyers, who have access to many dedicated electronic resources.However there is considerable scope for improving the design of these resources to better support information-seeking.
Ann Blandford +22 more
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Rent-seeking Contests under Symmetric and Asymmetric Information [PDF]
, 2010 We consider a variant of the Tullock rent-seeking contest. Under symmetric information we determine equilibrium strategies and prove their uniqueness. Then, we assume contestants to be privately informed about their costs of effort. We prove existence of
Wasser, Cédric
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Information-seeking behaviour of physicists and astronomers [PDF]
, 2008 Purpose – The study examines two aspects of information seeking behaviour of physicists and astronomers including methods applied for keeping up-to-date and methods used for finding articles. The relationship between academic status and research field of
Jamali, Hamid R., Nicholas, David
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Browsing a digital library: A new approach for the New Zealand digital library [PDF]
, 2003 Browsing is part of the information seeking process, used when information needs are ill-defined or unspecific. Browsing and searching are often interleaved during information seeking to accommodate changing awareness of information needs.
Cunningham, Sally Jo, McKay, Dana
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Health-Information Seeking and Intention to Quit Smoking: Do Health Beliefs Have a Mediating Role? [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Smoking is a leading cause of preventable deaths. Smoking cessation can reduce the risk of smoking-associated disease and death. But smoking cessation involves behaviour change.
Gakh, Maxim +2 more
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