TY - GEN
T1 - Searching by talking
T2 - 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2016
AU - Guy, Ido
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/7/7
Y1 - 2016/7/7
N2 - The growing popularity of mobile search and the advancement in voice recognition technologies have opened the door for web search users to speak their queries, rather than type them. While this kind of voice search is still in its infancy, it is gradually becoming more widespread. In this paper, we examine the logs of a commercial search engine's mobile interface, and compare the spoken queries to the typed-in queries. We place special emphasis on the semantic and syntactic characteristics of the two types of queries. We also conduct an empirical evaluation showing that the language of voice queries is closer to natural language than typed queries. Our analysis reveals further differences between voice and text search, which have implications for the design of future voice-enabled search tools.
AB - The growing popularity of mobile search and the advancement in voice recognition technologies have opened the door for web search users to speak their queries, rather than type them. While this kind of voice search is still in its infancy, it is gradually becoming more widespread. In this paper, we examine the logs of a commercial search engine's mobile interface, and compare the spoken queries to the typed-in queries. We place special emphasis on the semantic and syntactic characteristics of the two types of queries. We also conduct an empirical evaluation showing that the language of voice queries is closer to natural language than typed queries. Our analysis reveals further differences between voice and text search, which have implications for the design of future voice-enabled search tools.
KW - Mobile search
KW - Spoken queries
KW - Voice search
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84980319844
U2 - 10.1145/2911451.2911525
DO - 10.1145/2911451.2911525
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84980319844
T3 - SIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
SP - 35
EP - 44
BT - SIGIR 2016 - Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 17 July 2016 through 21 July 2016
ER -