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DL
1998
Springer
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Failure Analysis in Query Construction: Data and Analysis from a Large Sample of Web Queries
This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Tefko Saracevic
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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IQ^P: Incremental Query Construction, a Probabilistic Approach
—This paper presents IQP - a novel approach to bridge the gap between usability of keyword search and expressiveness of database queries. IQP enables a user to start with an arbi...
Elena Demidova, Xuan Zhou, Wolfgang Nejdl
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SIGMOD
2007
ACM
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Assisted querying using instant-response interfaces
We demonstrate a novel query interface that enables users to construct a rich search query without any prior knowledge of the underlying schema or data. The interface, which is in...
Arnab Nandi, H. V. Jagadish