A survey of query auto completion in information retrieval

F Cai, M De Rijke - Foundations and Trends® in Information …, 2016 - nowpublishers.com
In information retrieval, query auto completion (QAC), also known as typeahead [** to satisfy the mounting tendencies of social …

When do people use query suggestion? A query suggestion log analysis

MP Kato, T Sakai, K Tanaka - Information retrieval, 2013 - Springer
Query suggestion, which enables the user to revise a query with a single click, has become
one of the most fundamental features of Web search engines. However, it has not been clear …

Quda: Natural language queries for visual data analytics

S Fu, K **ong, X Ge, S Tang, W Chen, Y Wu - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The identification of analytic tasks from free text is critical for visualization-oriented natural
language interfaces (V-NLIs) to suggest effective visualizations. However, it is challenging …

A probabilistic optimization framework for the empty-answer problem

D Mottin, A Marascu, SB Roy, G Das… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
We propose a principled optimization-based interactive query relaxation framework for
queries that return no answers. Given an initial query that returns an empty answer set, our …