TY  - CONF
ID  - www2009162
UR  - http://www2009.eprints.org/162/
A1  - Toda, Guilherme A.
A1  - Cortez, Eli
A1  - Mesquita, Filipe
A1  - da Silva, Altigran S.
A1  - Moura, Edleno
A1  - Neubert, Marden
Y1  - 2009/04//
N2  - On the web of today the most prevalent solution for users to interact with data-intensive applications is the use of formbased interfaces composed by several data input ?elds, such as text boxes, radio buttons, pull-down lists, check boxes, etc. Although these interfaces are popular and effective, in many cases, free text interfaces are preferred over formbased ones. In this paper we discuss the proposal and the implementation of a novel IR-based method for using data rich free text to interact with form-based interfaces. Our solution takes a free text as input, extracts implicitly data values from it and ?lls appropriate ?elds using them. For this task, we rely on values of previous submissions for each ?eld, which are freely obtained from the usage of form-based interfaces.
TI  - Automatically Filling Form-Based Web Interfaces with Free Text Inputs
SP  - 1163
M2  - Madrid, Spain
AV  - public
EP  - 1163
T2  - 18th International World Wide Web Conference
ER  -