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known-item search: a standalone construct

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Information retrieval

searching for a particular item the user already knows exists, analyzed as a family of related but distinct search tasks.

In information retrieval, known-item search refers to searching for a particular item the user already knows exists, analyzed as a family of related but distinct search tasks. This meaning comes from Lee (2006) in Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.[1]

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References

Lee, J. H., Renear, A., & Smith, L. C. (2006). Known‐Item Search: Variations on a Concept. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 43(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504301126

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