@inproceedings{4da5ad7e12ff45ad802b42ea1c183953,
title = "Free-Text Search over Complex Web Forms",
abstract = "This paper investigates the problem of using free-text queries as an alternative means for searching {\textquoteleft}behind{\textquoteright} web forms. We introduce a novel specification 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.",
keywords = "IR-77553, METIS-277674, free-text interfaces, CR-H.5.2, Query translation, EWI-20251, CR-H.3.3, Query processing",
author = "Kien Tjin-Kam-Jet and Trieschnigg, {Rudolf Berend} and Djoerd Hiemstra",
note = "10.1007/978-3-642-21353-3_8 ; Second Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2011 ; Conference date: 06-06-2011 Through 06-06-2011",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-21353-3_8",
language = "Undefined",
isbn = "978-3-642-21352-6",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "94--107",
editor = "Allan Hanbury and Andreas Rauber and {de Vries}, A.P.",
booktitle = "Second Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2011",
address = "Germany",
}