...Carol Sabbar; Iris Xie Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to specifically investigate information seeking strategies that are used by scholars in the USA conducting research in languages other than English and the types of shifts that scholars make between strategies in planned, disruptive...

... using a collection of documents in the Spanish language. Design/methodology/approach Automatic translation is evaluated in terms of the functionality of actual translations produced by three online translators (Google Translator, Promt Translator, and Worldlingo) by means of objective and subjective...

...Fuchun Peng; Xiangji Huang Purpose The purpose of this research is to compare several machine learning techniques on the task of Asian language text classification, such as Chinese and Japanese where no word boundary information is available in written text. The paper advocates a simple language...

...Preben Hansen; Jussi Karlgren Purpose This paper aims to investigate how readers assess relevance of retrieved documents in a foreign language they know well compared with their native language, and whether work‐task scenario descriptions have effect on the assessment process. Design...

...Kimmo Kettunen; Tuomas Kunttu; Kalervo Järvelin Purpose To show that stem generation compares well with lemmatization as a morphological tool for a highly inflectional language for IR purposes in a best‐match retrieval system. Design/methodology/approach Effects of three different...