Entity quick click: rapid text copying based on automatic entity extraction

Retyping text phrases can be time consuming. As a result, techniques for copying text from one software application to another, such as copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop are now commonplace. However, even these techniques can be too slow in situations where many phrases need to be copied. In the special case where the phrases to be copied represent syntactically identifiable entities, such as person names, company names, telephone numbers, or street addresses, much faster phrase copying is possible. We describe entity quick click, an approach that reduces both the amount of cursor travel and the number of button presses needed to copy a phrase. Keywords Copying text, entity extraction, information extraction, text editing, sensemaking, copy-and-paste ACM Classification Keywords H.5.2. Information interfaces and presentation (e.g.,

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Eric A. Bier, Edward W. Ishak, Ed Chi
• Keywords: CHI 2006, Copy-and-paste Acm Classification, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Copying Text, Phrase Copying