Abstract
We report how users interact with an experimental system that transforms single-field textual input into a multi-field query for an existing travel planner system.
The experimental system was made publicly available and we collected over 30,000 queries from almost 12,000 users.
From the free-text query log, we examined how users formulated structured information needs into free-text queries.
The query log analysis shows that there is great variety in query formulation, over 400 query templates were found that occurred at least 4 times.
Furthermore, with over 100 respondents to our questionnaire, we provide both quantitative and qualitative evidence indicating that end-users significantly prefer a single field interface over a multi-field interface when performing structured search.
| Original language | Undefined |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIIX 2012) |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 82-89 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-1282-0 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2012 |
| Event | 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIIX 2012 - Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Nijmegen, Netherlands Duration: 21 Aug 2012 → 24 Aug 2012 Conference number: 4 http://www.cs.ru.nl/iiix2012/wordpress/ |
Publication series
| Name | |
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| Publisher | ACM |
Conference
| Conference | 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIIX 2012 |
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| Abbreviated title | IIiX 2012 |
| Country/Territory | Netherlands |
| City | Nijmegen |
| Period | 21/08/12 → 24/08/12 |
| Other | 21-24 August 2012 |
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Keywords
- User study
- Query translation
- Query log analysis
- Query reformulation
- METIS-293294
- IR-83486
- EWI-22838