Search-As-You-Type: Opportunities and Challenges.
Chen Li, Guoliang Li · 2010
Traditional information systems return answers after a user submits a complete query. Users often feel “left in the dark ” when they have limited knowledge about the underlying data, and have to use a tryand-see approach for finding information. A recent trend of supporting autocompletion in these systems is a first step towards solving this problem. In this paper, we study a new information-access paradigm, called “search-as-you-type ” or “type-ahead search, ” in which the system searches the underlying data