...María‐Dolores Olvera‐Lobo; Juncal Gutierrez‐Artacho Purpose In the field of information retrieval, some multi‐lingual tools are being created to help the users to overcome the language barriers. Nevertheless, these tools are not developed completely and it is necessary to investigate more...

...Ina Fourie Edited by Michael   Thomas . Handbook of Research on Web 2.0 and Second Language Learning . Hershey, PA : IGI Global/Information Science Reference   2009 . 636 pp. , ISBN: 9781605661902   US$265.00 hard cover © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010...

...Dirk Lewandowski Purpose This paper's aim is to test the ability of the major search engines Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask to distinguish between German‐ and English‐language documents. Design/methodology/approach A total of 50 queries using words common in both German and English were submitted...

...Jin Zhang; Suyu Lin Purpose This paper aims to investigate the multiple language support features in internet search engines. The diversity of the internet is reflected not only in its users, information formats and information content, but also in the languages used. As more and more information...

... system (DNS). It then reviews the various methods for internationalized access to domain names with a focus on their technical implementation and potential problems. Finally, it discusses several important language and policy issues surrounding the methods. Findings The methods proposed...

...Rajesh Chandrakar In this Internet era, when everything is going on the Web, character encoding becomes an issue for developers and facilitators. This matter also concerns India, as a country with rich diversity in languages, cultures, customs and religions, which are stored in print media...