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Current research issues and trends in non-English Web searching

Authors: Fotis Lazarinis, Jesús Vilares, John Tait, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis

Published in: Discover Computing | Issue 3/2009

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With increasingly higher numbers of non-English language web searchers the problems of efficient handling of non-English Web documents and user queries are becoming major issues for search engines. The main aim of this review paper is to make researchers aware of the existing problems in monolingual non-English Web retrieval by providing an overview of open issues. A significant number of papers are reviewed and the research issues investigated in these studies are categorized in order to identify the research questions and solutions proposed in these papers. Further research is proposed at the end of each section.

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Title: Current research issues and trends in non-English Web searching
Authors: Fotis Lazarinis
Jesús Vilares
John Tait
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
Publication date: 01-06-2009
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Discover Computing / Issue 3/2009
Print ISSN: 2948-2984
Electronic ISSN: 2948-2992
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10791-009-9093-0

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