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Introduction to the special issue on non-english web retrieval

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

Published in: Discover Computing | Issue 3/2009

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For more than a decade the growth of the level of non-English activity on the web has been noted by many authors (Spink et al. 2002; Global Reach 2004; Yang 2005; Kwok 2006; Chung 2008; Miniwatts International 2009a, b) and there is no reason to expect the pace of this change to slacken. The pace is likely to increase especially in continents that currently have low Internet penetration. The Web has become a dominant global multicultural and multilingual pool of data. Although in recent years search engines have improved their handling of non-English queries, studies show that many problems still exist and are worthy of further research. …

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Title: Introduction to the special issue on non-english web retrieval
Authors: Fotis Lazarinis
Jesus 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/s10791-009-9091-2

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