Measuring search engine quality in image queries in 10 non-English languages: an exploratory study

Authors:
Fotis Lazarinis;Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
Affiliations:
Technological Educational Institute, Mesolonghi, Greece;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Improving non english web searching
Year:
2008

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Abstract

The main aim of this short paper is to measure the relevance of the retrieved images in a number of queries in different non-English languages. The reasoning behind retrieval failures is investigated and suggestions for improving these problems are discussed.