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    Written versus spoken queries : a qualitative and quantitative comparative analysis

    Crestani, Fabio ; Du, Heather

    In: Journal of the American Society for information science and technology, 2006, vol. 57, no. 7, p. 881-890

    This paper reports on an experimental study on the differences between spoken and written queries. A set of written and spontaneous spoken queries are generated by users from written topics. These two sets of queries are compared in qualitative terms and in terms of their retrieval effectiveness. Written and spoken queries are compared in terms of length, duration, and part of speech. In...