International users interface
Cross-language information access to multilingual collections on the internet
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - digital libraries: Part 1
Cross-cultural usability of the library metaphor
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
The CLEF 2001 Interactive Track
CLEF '01 Revised Papers from the Second Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum on Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems
Should we translate the documents or the queries in cross-language information retrieval?
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Cross-language information retrieval: the way ahead
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Cross-language information retrieval
Technical issues of cross-language information retrieval: a review
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Cross-language information retrieval
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
Which user interaction for cross-language information retrieval? Design issues and reflections
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
New directions in multilingual information access
ACM SIGIR Forum
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Language as power on the Internet
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
User-assisted query translation for interactive cross-language information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Web redesign 2.0: workflow that works, second edition
Web redesign 2.0: workflow that works, second edition
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
Caption and query translation for cross-language image retrieval
CLEF'04 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Cross-Language Evaluation Forum: multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images
A case for query by image and text content: searching computer help using screenshots and keywords
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
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Digital libraries remove physical barriers to accessing information, but the language barrier still remains due to multilingual collections and the linguistic diversity of users. This study aims at understanding the effect of users' language skills and field of knowledge on their language preferences when searching for information online and to provide new insights on the access to multilingual digital libraries. Both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered using a questionnaire and results show that the language skills and the field of knowledge have an impact on the language choice for searching online. These factors also determine the interest in cross-language information retrieval: language-related fields constitute the best potential group of users, followed by the Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences.