Min-Yen Kan and Danny C. C. Poo
Known Item Queries (JCDL 2005)
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Importance
of Known Item Queries
•Kilgour
has noted effectiveness of author / title combination
•Up to 50% of keyword searches are known item queries
(Larson, 91)
–despite having entry points for author, title and subject
search
•Partial answers normally don’t help in known item
search – either you find the item or you don’t
Aren’t known item searches trivial?