Faceted metadata for image search and browsing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Type less, find more: fast autocompletion search with a succinct index
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Efficient interactive fuzzy keyword search
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Context-sensitive query auto-completion
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Query suggestions in the absence of query logs
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Actualization of query suggestions using query logs
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
Time-sensitive query auto-completion
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Learning to personalize query auto-completion
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
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Enterprise query auto-completion (QAC) can allow website or intranet visitors to satisfy a need more efficiently than traditional searching and browsing. The limited scope of an enterprise makes it possible to satisfy a high proportion of information needs through completion. Further, the availability of structured sources of completions such as product catalogues compensates for sparsity of log data. Extended forms (X-QAC) can give access to information that is inaccessible via a conventional crawled index. We show that it can be guaranteed that for every suggestion there is a prefix which causes it to appear in the top k suggestions. Using university query logs and structured lists, we quantify the significant keystroke savings attributable to this guarantee (worst case). Such savings may be of particular value for mobile devices. A user experiment showed that a staff lookup task took an average of 61% longer with a conventional search interface than with an X-QAC system. Using wine catalogue data we demonstrate a further extension which allows a user to home in on desired items in faceted-navigation style. We also note that advertisements can be triggered from QAC. Given the advantages and power of X-QAC systems, we envisage that websites and intranets of the [near] future will provide less navigation and rely less on conventional search.