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This paper investigates the problem of using free-text queries as an alternative means for searching ‘behind’ 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.
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Tjin-Kam-Jet, K., Trieschnigg, D., Hiemstra, D. (2011). Free-Text Search over Complex Web Forms. In: Hanbury, A., Rauber, A., de Vries, A.P. (eds) Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval. IRFC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21353-3_8
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