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The study presented involves several different contextual aspects and is the latest in a continuing series of exploratory experiments on information access behaviour in a multi-lingual context [1, 2]. This year’s interactive cross-lingual information access experiment was designed to measure three parameters we expected would affect the performance of users in cross-lingual tasks in languages in which the users are less than fluent. Firstly, introducing new technology, we measure the effect of topic-tailored term expansion on query formulation. Secondly, introducing a new component in the interactive interface, we investigate – without measuring by using a control group – the effect of a bookmark panel on user confidence in the reported result. Thirdly, we ran subjects pair-wise and allowed them to communicate verbally, to investigate how people may cooperate and collaborate with a partner during a search session performing a similar but non-identical search task.
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Hansen, P., Karlgren, J., Sahlgren, M. (2005). Cooperation, Bookmarking, and Thesaurus in Interactive Bilingual Question Answering. In: Peters, C., Clough, P., Gonzalo, J., Jones, G.J.F., Kluck, M., Magnini, B. (eds) Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images. CLEF 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3491. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11519645_35
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