Interactive Query Formulation

摘要

Query formulation (QF) is the stage of the interactive information access process in which an information seeker translates an information need into a query and submits the query to an information access system such as a search engine (e.g., Google) or a library database (e.g., Factiva or PubMed). The system performs some computation to match the query with the documents most likely to be relevant to the query and returns a ranked list of relevant documents to the information seeker.