Free-Text Search versus Complex Web Forms

Tjin-Kam-Jet, Kien and Trieschnigg, Dolf and Hiemstra, Djoerd (2011) Free-Text Search versus Complex Web Forms. In: 33rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2011, 18-21 April 2011, Dublin, Ireland.

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Abstract:	We investigated the use of free-text queries as an alternative means for searching ‘behind’ web forms. We conducted a user study where we evaluated our prototype free-text interface in a travel planner scenario. Our results show that users prefer this free-text interface over the original web form and that they are about 9% faster on average at completing their search tasks.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2011 Springer
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Databases (DB)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/77552
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_67
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