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     CRES at LogCLEF 2010: Towards Understanding the
    User Behaviors through an Analysis of Search Sessions,
               Search Units and Click Ranks1

               Masao Takaku2,7, Yuka Egusa3,7, Hitomi Saito4,7, Noriko Kando1 ,
                           Hitoshi Terai5,7 and Makiko Miwa6,7,
                            1
                              National Instititue of Informatics,
                                  Tokyo 101-8430, Japan
                                           {kando, cres}@nii.ac.jp
                             2
                              National Institute for Materials Science
                                     Ibaraki 305-0047, Japan
                                  TAKAKU.Masao@nims.go.jp
                       3
                         National Institute for Educational Policy Research
                                      Tokyo 100-8951, Japan
                                          yuka@nier.go.jp
                                 4
                                   Aichi University of Education
                                      Aichi 448-8542, Japan
                                   hsaito@auecc.aichi-edu.ac.jp
                                        5
                                          Nagoya University,
                                      Aichi 464-8601, Japan
                                       terai@cog.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp
                                   The Open University of Japan
                                   6

                                      2-11 Wakaba, Mihama,
                                      Chiba, 261-8586, Japan
                                       miwamaki@ouj.ac.jp
                                    7
                                      Collaborative Researcher,
                                 National Instititue of Informatics,
                                       Tokyo 101-8430, Japan



         Abstract. This paper describes the participation of Cognitive Research on
         Exploratory Search (CRES) collaborative research group at National Institute of
         Informatics (NII) for LogCLEF 2010. Analysis of multilingual search logs from
         two separated time periods was conducted with the purposes to investigate the
         users search behaviors as processes which consisting of sequences of actions
         and duration. We extended our methodologies investigating the users’ search
         behavior using the laboratory user experiments and the user-side log analysis to
         the TEL’s action logs. For the first, we cleaned up the log data by discarding
         the records from the periods without “recordPosition” or “timestamp”.
         Secondly we did mapping the analytical framework for the Web search to the
         TEL by comparing the actions recorded in the TEL’s log files and those
         recorded in our client-side logs for web search, and the page transitions in TEL
         and the web search. Thirdly, we have analyzed the TEL’s action logs in terms
         of search sessions, search units and click ranks. As results the numbers of the
         actions in search sessions and search units were generally short and any

1   The work is supported by MEXT grand-in-aid (#21300096) and NII Collaborative Research Program
          particular groups of the uses were not found so far. But we could see rather
          small number of search sessions and search units had different tendencies of the
          number of the actions and their durations. For the future works, investigating
          the differences of the users’ behaviors across different language and/or cultural
          background is considered. The scripts that we have developed and used for
          analysis are available through sourceforge.
          Keywords: log analysis, users’ search behavior, search sessions, search units,
          click ranks, search tasks




1       Introduction

LogCLEF 2010 is one of the workshops of CLEF 2010 Labs at Cross Language
Evaluation Forum (CLEF). In LogCLEF 2010, a common data set was distributed to
the participants, and in coordination with the organizers, participating groups were
devoted to different tasks in exploring and understanding the data. Our group has
devoted to a task to investigate the users’ behavior as processes which consisting of
sequences of actions and duration through the analysis of the action logs from the
European Library (TEL), which is a digital library with a single user interface to
search across the contents provided from many national libraries in Europe. This
paper reports the results of the analysis in terms of the search sessions, search units
and click ranks.
   This participation is conducted as part of ongoing research activities within the
Cognitive Research on Exploratory Search (CRES) collaborative research group2 of
National Institute of Informatics (NII). CRES is investigating the users’ information
seeking behaviors of the exploratory search on the Web for different tasks, with
different levels of expertise about the search strategies, about the topic or subject
domain, and about the tasks, through the analysis of the data collected from the user
experiments and the client-side logs. The over all purposes are to understand the users
problem solving process during the search, to evaluate the exploratory search, and to
propose novel search user interfaces and search functionalities based on the
investigation of users’ behaviour. In this participation we intended to extend our
analytical frameworks to the action log of TEL to understand the users’ search
behaviors on a multilingual digital library.
   Although many existing studies on log analysis have focused on the queries and
the click-through, we have placed emphases to capture the users’ search behaviors as
a search process, or a series of actions and duration. This is partially because that
substantial part of the information needs cannot be fulfilled by a single iteration of a
search and the users often gradually specifying or clarifying the focus of the search,
learning through the search interaction to have a better insight and to cumulating the
understanding, and the users’ interest may be developed or shifted during the
interaction. Our investigations so far have indicated that such interactive search
processes vary according to the types of the users’ information seeking tasks or the
purposes of the search, and the users’ expertise. And it is also important to propose a

2   http://cres.jpn.org/
functionality to support such interactive and/or exploratory information seeking. This
paper however reported an initial analysis and general tendencies seen in the dataset,
the method can be extensible to investigate the differences of the user groups with
different languages or cultural backgrounds, which we hope to report some at the
workshop in September 2010.
   For the rest of this paper is organized as follows; Section 2 briefly describes the
data preparation. Section 3 explains the basic ideas for the analysis. Section 4
describes the methods. Section 5 reports the results. Section 6 is conclusion. And
appendix provides brief description of the tools we have developed and used for
analysis, which are available from sourceforge.


2     Data Preparation

The raw data sets used for our analysis are the action log files of TEL, logclef.zip (Jan
2007 - June 2008) and logclef2.zip (Jan 2009 - Dec 2009). These two log files contain
the same set of the elements with different time period of the records and different
separators.
   The former consists of semicolon-separated value data and contains 1,866,330 lines
(283,993,551 bytes). Among them, the data before 2007-03-16 09:33:04 are without
the “recordPosition” (the 10th column,i.e. “click rank”), and about half of the data
after that time also did not record the “recordPosition”.
   The latter consists of comma-separated value data and contains 762,485 lines
(128,119,174 bytes). Among them, all the value of the timestamp (access date) was
“00:00:00” before 2009-09-16 13:10:27.966.
   Table 1 showed the dataset1 and dataset2 that we used for the analysis described
in the next section. The dataset1 was constructed by discarding the records for the
period from 2007-01-01 to 2007-03-16 09:33:04 from the logclef.zip as none of the
records of the time contained “recordPosition”. The dataset2 was constructed by
discarding the records for the periods from 2009-01-01 to 2009-09-06 from
logclef2.zip as none of the records for the period contained the timestamp. The
numbers of the records used for the analysis were 1,560,682 and 300,323,
respectively.
Table 1. Summary of the Data Used

                                                                   Action name
                      Data                          No. of
    File name                     Period of date              record-
                      name                         records                timestamp*
                                                             Position*
                                 2007-01-01 --
                        -                           305648       0.00%       100.00%
                                    2007-03-16
    logclef.zip
                                 2007-03-16* --
                    dataset1                       1560682      49.95%       100.00%
                                    2008-06-30
                                 2009-01-01 --
                        -                           462136     100.00%         0.00%
                                    2009-09-16
    logclef2.zip
                                 2009-09-16*--
                    dataset2                        300323     100.00%       100.00%
                                    2009-12-31

*recordPosition: ratio of valid recordPostion
*timestamp: ratio of valid timestamp
*2007/03/16 09:33:04
*2009/09/16 13:10:27.966

   As a pre-processing of the data, records in the dataset1 and dataset2 were
converted into tab-separated value data files. We defined the „search session“ and re-
assigned the session ID. The ID was called as „cres_sesid“ hereafter. The definition of
the search session will be described later in the sectin of 3.3.
   The logfiles of dataset 1 and dataset2 were analyzed using the Ruby scripts. The
analytical tools that we have developed and used were made available through the
Sourceforge (http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/cres/svn/view/logclef/).



3      Methods
3.1 CRES Frameworks to Analyze the Users’ Behavior in the Search Processes

To investigate the users’ behaviors on the exploratory search on the Web, we have
proposed the various frameworks including i) “Web Action Categories” [1] and “Link
Depth” [2] for users’ actions, ii) “Lookzone” [1] for eye movement and a visualizing
tool “Scanpath2SVG” [7], iii) “Taxonomy of Knowledge Modification and Knowledge
Utilization Patterns” for content-analysis of the qualitative data like think-aloud and
interview [4-6], iv) “COPATT” as a tool integrating the above mentioned data [1], and
v) “Concept Map” and its visualizing tool “VizCMaps” to measure the changes in the
user’s knowledge between pre- and post search [3]. We have also developed a client-
side logging tool called “QT-Honey” to capture all the users actions defined by the
Web Action Categories, Link Depth, click ranks, and duration of each action from the
users’ point of view. And then we have analyzed the differences of the users’ search
processes by the types of the users’ search tasks and the users’ expertise about search,
the topics and the tasks.
   In this participation, we intended to investigate the users’ behavior on TEL by
analyzing the action logs using the frameworks extended from the ones we have used
and to characterize the users’ behavior in the search sessions through the comparison
between the previous works on Web search using user experiments and client-side
logs
   In this purpose, we define 1) the correspondence between TEL’s action logs and
the client-side logs captured using QT-Honey focusing on the users’ actions defined
by the Web Action Categories (Table 2) , and 2) the analytical units.

  Table 2. Web Action Categories

         Search: searching with a search engine
         Link: clicking on a page link
         Next: going forward to the next page
         Return: going backward to the previous page
         Jump: going to a page in the Bookmark or History
         Browse: browsing the next search
         Submit: clicking a submit button
         Bookmark: adding bookmarks
         Change: changing from one tab to another
         Close: closing a tab or window


3.2 Mapping the Frameworks

Figure 1 shows the framework that we have used for the analysis of the users’
behavior on the web search, and the correspondent actions in the TEL’s action logs
with typical usages in both of the Web search and TEL.


       Web Search
          a) Search Engine’s         b) Search Engine’s                         c) Indivisual Page
             Search Page             Resolt Page (SERP)                         (Non-SERP)


                                                              link
                      search                                  (rank 1)




       TEL

        a') Simple search form       b’) List of records                        c’) A full record view


                       search_sim
                                                           view_full
                        view_brief
                                                           (recordPosition 1)



  Figure 1: Comparison of the Frameworks for Web search and TEL.
   In Figure 1, the actions captured by QT Honey and TEL’s action logs were in the
red rectangles. For TEL, b') is a list of the abstracts (title, author, type, language) of
the top 10 retrieved items in the first collection after sorted by the collection names.
c') is a full record view of the TEL and contains a detailed information about each
item. We could see the correspondences between each of the pairs of a) and a’), b)
and b’), and c) and c’).
3.3 Unit of Analysis: Search Sessions and Search Units

For the unit of the analysis, we can define the four levels of the search processes as
shown in the Table 2

Table 3. Four Levels of Search Processes

           Levels                                                                Definition
                                     The overall process to complete the search task. The
           Search                    concept of the search task is similar to the search trail
            Task                     concept of White and Drunker (2007). The range of the
                                     search trail is broader than the search task.
                                     Continuous process while searching for the same target.
        Intent Unit                  The concept of the intent unit is similar to that of the
                                     search mission by Guo and Agichtein (2009).
                                     Continuous process while searching a single query. A
      Search Unit
                                     search unit ends when users submits new query.
                                     Continuous process while linking non-search results
         Link Unit                   pages. A link unit starts when the user click a link in SERP
                                     and ends when he or she returns to SERP.


   In this paper, we focused on the search session, which is closed to the task unit in
Table 3 and the search unit. A search session is a unit for search [12] and a series of
queries by a user [13] for a task.In this analysis, a series of log data containing the
same session ID (sesid) was regarded as a series of the actions by a same user in a that
the different session started. When sesid was null, the session was identified
                   search
         session
                    unit    search    view_brief   view_full
                                                               147.94, sesidB-0, ("mot"), search_sim, 2009-09-28 14:16:01
                                                               147.94, sesidB-0, ("mot"), view_brief, a0351, 0, 0, 2009-09-28 14:16:24
  No logs                                                      147.94, sesidB-0, ("mot"), view_full, 2009-09-28 14:16:41
over 30 min.                                                   147.94, sesidB-0, ("mot linguistique"), search_res, 2009-09-28 14:18:41
                                                               147.94, sesidB-0, ("mot linguistique"), view_brief, 2009-09-28 14:18:55
                                                               147.94, sesidB-1, ("morphème"), search_res, 2009-09-28 15:01:23
                                                               147.94, sesidB-1, ("morphème"), view_brief, 2009-09-28 15:04:21
                                                               212.75, sesidX-0, ("creator" all "charles"), search_adv, 2009-11-11 11:10:05
 Other sesid                                                   212.75, sesidX-0, ("creator" all "charles"), view_brief, 2009-11-11 11:11:56
   started                                                     212.75, sesidX-0, ("creator" all "charles"), view_full, 2009-11-11 11:12:01
                                                               212.75, sesidX-0, ("creator" all "charles"), view_full, 2009-11-11 11:12:05
                                                               212.75, sesidX-0, ("pidal, ramon menendez"), search_sim, 2009-11-11 11:13:47
                                                               212.75, sesidX-0, ("pidal, ramon menendez"), view_brief, 2009-11-11 11:13:57
                                                               212.75, sesidX-0, ("pidal, ramon menendez"), view_brief, 2009-11-11 11:14:40
                                                               212.75, sesidX-0, ("pidal, ramon menendez"), view_full, 2009-11-11 11:15:40

Figure 2; Example of Analysis Units
search session. And if no action was recorded more than 30 minutes, it was regarded
using the IP address (userip) . A search unit is a series of the actions, which starts by
an action of “search” and ends by the next “search” or by the end of the search
session. Figure 2 showed the examples of the search sessions and search units on TEL
action logs.
   In Figure 2, the original session IDs like “sesidB” or “sesidX” (on the second
column) are replaced by the “cres-sesid” such as “sesidB-0” and “sesidB-1”. The
different numbers like “-0” or “-1” are added to the sesidB and divided into two
different sessions because there was a 42-minutes gaps between the 5th and 6th lines.


3.4 Click ranks

   TEL’s action log item, “recordPosition” along with a “view_full” action was
identified and analyzed the click ranks.


4. Results and Discussion

4.1 Search Sessions

The number of actions in each search sessions and the time duration of it are shown in
Table 4. No significant differences were found between the two log files of dataset1
and dataset2. As both of the numbers of actions in a search session and its time
duration had lower numbers even for the third quartiles and were indicated that most
of the search sessions have a few actions in the rather short time duration. And rather
small number of the exceptional cases of longer sessions.

Table 4: Nnumber of Actions and Duration Per Search Session

                  (n)      Mean.      SD      Min.   Q1 Median        Q3    Max.
  No. of actions
  dataset1 (225,590)        6.92 13.34           1     2         4      8    1,072
  dataset2     (41,003)     7.32 16.25           1     1         3      7      705
  Time(sec.)
  dataset1 (225,590) 282.14 653.94               0    10        73   241 22,706
  dataset2     (41,003) 315.94 750.48            0     0        65   263 18,697
  Q1:1st qurtile, Q3:3rd qurtile

   The correlation were found between the duration and the number of the actions of
each search session (dataset1: r =0.665 , p < .01,dataset2: r =0.688 , p < .01) for
Figure 3a and 3b. There are still rather small number of the cases with larger number
of the actions in the shorter duration and the opposite cases.
                        (a) dataset1                             (b) dataset 2
Figure 3: Scatter-grams of Number of Actions and Duration Per Search Session.

   In the previous studies on Web search, the duration of the search sessions are
related to the types of the search tasks and the purposes of the search. The search
conducted by expert users (i.e., the experts in search techniques, in the topics, and the
problem solving of the type of the tasks) on the tasks with well-defined problems to
the users getting larger number of actions in the same durations. In contract, the
novice users or the users who search on the unfamiliar topics or on the ill-defined
problems for the user did rather small number of the search and other actions per
times and required longer durations. Providing the supports to the users for the terms
of search tactics, for topics or subject domains, or for the task expertise is preferable.


4.2 Search units
    The number of the search units, the time duration of each search unit, and the
number of actions in it are shown in Table 5. No significant differences were found
between dataset-2 and -1 and dataset2. For the most search units, are only one or
two action(s) are followed by a search and 75% search units are shortended in 2
minutes.

Table 5: Number of Actions and Duration Per Search Unit

                  (n)      Mean.        SD      Min.   Q1   Median   Q3     Max.
 No. of actions
 dataset1     (492,313)      2.63        5.27      1    1        2     3    1,071
 dataset2      (79,830)      2.23        6.73      1    1        1     3      306
 Time(sec.)
  dataset1 (492,313)       121.22      259.50      0   12    44.00   109   17,661
  dataset2  (79,830)       150.78      326.75      0    6    43.70   129   12,112
 Q1:1st qurtile, Q3:3rd qurtile
     The correlation between the duration and the number of the actions of each
search unit is found in (Figure 4a and 4b) for both datasets. (dataset1: r = 0.410, p
< .01,dataset2: r = 0.508, p < .001).The duration of the search units increased
according to the number of the actions in them. But there are rather small number of
the cases with larger number of the actions in the shorter duration and the longer
duration with smaller number of actions. Qualitative analysis of these exceptional
cases shall conducted later.




                                                                               (a) dataset1                                                                                                                       (b) dataset 2
Figure 4: Scatter-grams of Number of Actions and Duration per Search Unit


4.3 Click Ranks

The numbers of the click ranks and their histgrams are shown in Table 6 and Figures
5a and 5b.

Table 6: Click Ranks

                       (n)      Mean.      SD       Min.* Q1 Median Q3 Max.
       dataset1 (262,883*) 17.63 66.59                0      1         3      11 9,987
       dataset2     (78,520)     15.61 100.05         1      1         3       9 19,999
       Q1:1st qurtile, Q3:3rd quartile
       *: As explained in Section 2, about half of the records in the dataset1 missing the
       value of the recordPosition, which is equivalent to the click rank.

                              90000                                                                                          100%                                 30000                                                                                          100%
                                                 N                                                                                                                                   N
                              80000              Cumulative(%)                                                               90%                                                     Cumulative(%)                                                               90%
                                                                                                                                                                  25000
Number of view_full Actions




                                                                                                                                    Number of view_full Actions




                                                                                                                             80%                                                                                                                                 80%
                              70000
                                                                                                                             70%                                                                                                                                 70%
                              60000                                                                                                                               20000
                                                                                                                             60%                                                                                                                                 60%
                              50000
                                                                                                                             50%                                  15000                                                                                          50%
                              40000
                                                                                                                             40%                                                                                                                                 40%
                              30000                                                                                                                               10000
                                                                                                                             30%                                                                                                                                 30%
                              20000
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                                                                                                                                                                   5000
                              10000                                                                                          10%                                                                                                                                 10%

                                 0                                                                                           0%                                      0                                                                                           0%
                                      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 30-                                                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 30-

                                                                        Click Rank                                                                                                                          Click Rank

                                                                        (a) dataset1                                                                                                                        (b) dataset 2
Figure 5: Histograms of Click Ranks
      For both datasets, the number of the clicks on the top ranked documents on the
list of the retrieved results on the brief view page was highest and a big gap between
ranks of 1 and 2 were found. About 30 % of the total clicks were on the top-ranked
retrieved documents.
    For dataset1 has a small gap between the 20th and 21st, and dataset2 has a small gap
between the 10th and 11th. The current TEL’s user interface displays the top 10
documents on the first page. This affected on the users behaviors and the number of
the clicks on the second pages declined. For dataset1, we guess that the TEL might
have a user interface which listing the top 20 documents on the first pages sometimes
during the period for the dataset1.
    In the past research on the web searches, the distributions of the click ranks are
suggested the relationship with the types of the tasks that the users are involved and
the users’ experiences in various ways.

                                                                           60.0%                                            Report task: Gazing
 60.0%                                             Report task: Gazing
                                                                                                                            Trip task: Gazing
                                                   Trip task: Gazing       50.0%
 50.0%                                                                                                                      Report task: Clicking
                                                   Report task: Clicking
                                                                           40.0%                                            Trip task: Clicking
 40.0%                                             Trip task: Clicking

                                                                           30.0%
 30.0%

                                                                           20.0%
 20.0%

                                                                           10.0%
 10.0%

                                                                            0.0%
  0.0%
                                                                                    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10 11 12 13 14 15
          1   2    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10 11 12 13 14 15
                                                                           -10.0%
 -10.0%


                  (a) Undergraduate                                                                     (b) Graduate
Figure 6. Gaze and Click Ranks in Web Search by Different User Groups for Different Tasks [9]

   As shown in Figure 6, the results of the user experiments on Web search showed
the similar tendencies in the click rank distributions, and more acute concentrates
[1][9]. About 50% of the clicks searches by graduate students were rank=1, and about
45% and 30% of the total clicks done on SERP in the searches conducted by the
undergraduate students were rank=1 for trip-planning and for report-writings,
respectively. In terms of the distribution of the click ranks, the TEL’s distribution
observed in the action logs were rather similar to those for the Web searches by
undergraduate students who were not well-experienced in the search for report-
writing. The structures of the systems of TEL and ordinary web search engines which
allow the users to navigate among the web pages far from SERP are different, and the
contents and users’ information seeking tasks related to the searches could be also
different, and then we cannot conclude the relationship between them for here.
Further analysis shall be done for the different user groups and different search
sessions to investigate across the search sessions using different languages, and those
showed characteristic number and duration for search sessions and search units.
5. Conclusion

This paper reports the results of our analysis of the TEL action logs using the
frameworks extended from the authors’ investigations on the users’ search behaviors
on the web with different search tasks by the users who have different levels of
expertise for search techniques, for subject domains or topics, and for the task. We
have focused on the analysis of the search process and analyzed the action logs in
terms of search sessions, search units and click ranks. Unfortunately the most of the
search sessions and search units are shorts and we could not find any particular user
groups from the analysis so far. The analysis of the click-ranks indicating the changes
in the user interfaces sometime between the first log file. Also the most frequent
clicks were done on the top ranked documents, but those tendencies are more
moderate comparing to the Web searches.
   For the further research, the analysis on the search sessions across the different
languages and qualitative analysis of the search sessions and units which obtained
characteristic behaviors in terms of the number of the actions in the search sessions
and units and their durations. We hope to report some of the results of such additional
analysis at the workshop in September.


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