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Onebox: Free-Text Interfaces as an Alternative to Complex Web Forms

Year: 2011

Type: report

Abstract: This paper investigates the problem of translating free-text queries into key-value pairs as an alternative means for searching `behind' web forms. We introduce a novel specication language for specifying free-text interfaces, and report the results of a user study where we evaluated our prototype 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.

Source: University of Twente Research Information

Authors: Kien Tjin-kam-jet, Dolf Trieschnigg, Djoerd Hiemstra

Language: English

Topic: Information Retrieval and Search Behavior

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Award: Distributed Information Retrieval by means of Keyword Auctions

OpenAlex ID: W1526457706

Cites: 22

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10