Posts Tagged ‘domain expertise ’
I decided to try a little Mechanical Turk study to see if I could spot some differences between tags generated by experts and those generated by novices. I had each Turker read 1 of 5 web pages (on the topic of “enterprise 2.0 mashups”) and enter 5 tags which they thought would be useful for bookmarking the page (either for themselves or others). I also asked them to rate how familiar they were with the subject matter (“Not at All”, “Slightly Familiar”, “Somewhat Familiar”, and “I am an Expert”)…
This is a first post in a new format that I’m trying out: the “Meta-Review”. Besides the fact that it starts with an “M” (thus fitting with my category naming format), I’m calling it a “Meta-Review” because it’s composed of notes and thoughts about a handful of papers all mashed together. This isn’t intended to be a carefully thought-out treatise on the papers discussed, but instead is really just a more public version of my immediate thoughts and notes (if I’m going to write them down anyways, why not share?) Comments, discussion, and pointers to additional/related papers are encouraged, as they would benefit other readers (and more importantly, me).
In this post, I present a summary and discussion of 4 papers (and a poster abstract) about the role that domain expertise plays in web search behavior and performance.
