Natural language query vs. Keyword search: Effects of task complexity on search performance, participant perceptions, and preferences

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3585 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 106-116

  Wang, Qianying ^a   Nass, Clifford ^a   Hu, Jiang ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

CROSS-OVER INTERACTIONS; KEYWORD SEARCH; NATURAL LANGUAGE SEARCH;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645972626     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11555261_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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