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We investigated the use of free-text queries as an alternative means for searching ‘behind’ web forms. We conducted a user study where we evaluated our prototype free-text interface 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 versus Complex Web Forms. In: Clough, P., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_67
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