Professional search is a problem area in which many facets of information retrieval are addressed, both systemrelated (e.g. distributed search) and user-related (e.g. complex information needs), and the interface between user and system (e.g. supporting exploratory search tasks). Professional search tasks have speci c requirements, di erent from the requirements of generic web search.
The workshop addresses these requirements from multiple angles; covering many di erent facets of professional search. The workshop is a mix of keynotes, short oral presentations, and a break-out session in which there is time to focus the discussion on speci c topics. As keynote speakers, we have Paul Bennett (Microsoft Research), on \Search and Recommendation in the Enterprise", and David D. Lewis (Brainspace) on \Research Challenges in IR for Legal Discovery and Investigations". We accepted six papers for short oral presentations.
We actively involved the target group of our research in the preparation of the workshop by distributing a survey in the months before the workshop. We de ned the target group as \everyone who regularly performs complex search tasks at work in environments other than general web search". This includes information specialists in various domains, but also librarians, scientists, lawyers, and other knowledge worker professions. The aim of the survey to gather the experiences of these professional searchers: which systems do they use, what do they like about them, what functionalities do they miss, and what aspects/challenges do they think should be on the research roadmap for professional search. The survey had 113 responses. The workshop starts with a presentation of the results from the survey (prepared by the organizers), and the collected requirements are further addressed in the breakout session.
Intended outcome of the workshop is a research roadmap and workshop report for SIGIR Forum in which the outcome of the survey, the presentations and discussions in this workshop are summarized. This way, we will draw the research community's attention to the importance of professional search as research domain. Copyright c by the paper's authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes.
In: Joint Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Professional Search (ProfS2018); the Second Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval, Analysis, and Understanding (KG4IR); and the International Workshop on Data Search (DATA:SEARCH18). Co-located with SIGIR 2018, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA { 12 July 2018, published at http://ceur-ws.org Program committee
Organisers Arjen P. de Vries, Radboud University, the Netherlands