@inproceedings{9cbe99d792af4dae92731f52cbf561ed,
title = "Entity-linking interfaces in user-contributed content: Preference and performance",
abstract = "The ability to embed links to other resources in user generated content can help authors create more useful and usable content. A variety of interfaces have emerged for entity-linking at popular online sites; such interfaces vary in the way that entity linking is initiated (in-band or out-of-band with respect to the message creation), the timing of entity resolution (interrupting or deferred), and the method of resolving the entity (auto-completion or search). Four interfaces mimicking popular entity linking websites were developed and tested. Results showed that out-of-band initiation (e.g., a link button) was faster to learn, but that inband initiation performance improved with familiarity. Deferred search was disliked and led to worse performance. And auto-completion was generally preferred to search interfaces.",
keywords = "Cross linking, Entity reference, User generated content",
author = "Xiao Dong and Harper, {F. Maxwell} and Konstan, {Joseph A.}",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1145/1978942.1979261",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450302289",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "2187--2196",
booktitle = "CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts",
}