Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Foundations of statistical natural language processing
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Structured databases on the web: observations and implications
ACM SIGMOD Record
IEEE Internet Computing
Learning a spelling error model from search query logs
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Analysis of long queries in a large scale search log
Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Web Search Click Data
A survey on session detection methods in query logs and a proposal for future evaluation
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Extracting structured information from user queries with semi-supervised conditional random fields
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Towards rich query interpretation: walking back and forth for mining query templates
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Ranking using multiple document types in desktop search
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Unsupervised query segmentation using clickthrough for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Free-text search over complex web forms
IRFC'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Multidisciplinary information retrieval facility
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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.