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 | English |
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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 (ACM) |
| Pages | 82-89 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4503-1282-0 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2012 |