Tip-of-the-Tongue Search in the Wild: Analyzing Human and LLM Performance and Success Factors on Complex Search Requests.

@inproceedings{bogers-2026-tipofthetongue, author = {Toine Bogers and Maria G\"{a}de and Mark M. Hall and Marijn Koolen and Vivien Petras and Mette Skov}, editor = {Chirag Shah and Ryen W. White and Adam Fourney and Carla Teixeira Lopes and Johanne R. Trippas}, title = {{Tip-of-the-Tongue Search in the Wild: Analyzing Human and LLM Performance and Success Factors on Complex Search Requests}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2026, Seattle, WA, USA, March 22-26, 2026}}, pages = {162--171}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3786304.3787864}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3786304.3787864} }