Barriers to Information Access across Languages on the Internet: Network and Language Effects
HICSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 03
Patterns of query reformulation during Web searching
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Analysis of multiple query reformulations on the web: The interactive information retrieval context
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Exploring the effects of language skills on multilingual web search
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
The impact of user experience levels on web credibility judgments
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
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More and more people search online in a language that is not their native language due to the limited availability of content in underrepresented languages [1]. Most such users search in English as a second language. Very few researchers studied the challenges second language searchers face, even though searching in a foreign language and language proficiency and skills constitute an essential part of the context of searching, which can in return impact the search process and outcome. This exploratory study examines differences in first and second language web searching. Query reformulations from 14 participants who searched in English (first language) and Spanish (second language) and 17 participants who searched in Hungarian (first language) and English (second language) are analyzed and compared. Preliminary results show that searching in a foreign language requires significantly longer time, more query reformulations, and more websites viewed. User feedback also indicates that the search strategy that our participants successfully use in their first language is often much less efficient in their second language.