Workshop on task-based and aggregated search

Task-based search seeks to understand a user's current task and desired outcomes, and how this may provide useful context for the information retrieval process. For example, there are situations where additional user information on the purpose of the search or what a user already knows can significantly improve retrieval performance.

Task-based search can be especially useful in the digital libraries domain, such as presenting a user with one result list drawn from multiple sources. Research into this type of aggregated search addresses the challenge of when and how to fuse different document and media types, and how to present results to the user.

This workshop will examine exploratory research in task-based and aggregated search, and investigate synergies between these two areas.