Efthimiadis, E.N. "End-User Understanding and Use of Knowledge Structures in Database Searching." In: Kinney, T. ed. ASIS'95: Proceedings of the 58th ASIS Annual Meeting, October 9-12, 1995, Chicago, Il. New Jersey: Information Today, v32, pp234. [Abstract]

The research presents a study of the searching behavior of end-users in an academic environment. Focusing on query expansion this research has investigated the processes of query expansion, of term selection for query expansion, and the user perception, understanding and assignment of term relationships from a knowledge structure.