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Evaluation of search quality differences and the impact of personality styles in native and foreign language searching tasks

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Anita Komlódi,

Károly Hercegfi,

Peng ChuAuthors Info & Claims

IIIX '12: Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium

Pages 310 - 313

https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362782

Published: 21 August 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Taking individual differences into consideration is a foundational issue of Human-Computer Interaction research. The current paper examines the differences that arise during native and foreign language information-seeking tasks. Seventeen Hungarian college students, with significant but non-heritage knowledge of English, participated in the study. We examined the impact of search strategies and personality types on search outcome quality. Our results show interesting variations in searchers' success in their native and foreign languages. In-depth search strategies work better and allow searchers to achieve the same success rate in a foreign language as in their native language. More empathy toward the search task also seems to improve results.

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Evaluation of search quality differences and the impact of personality styles in native and foreign language searching tasks
1. Information systems
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    1. Information retrieval query processing

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IIIX '12: Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium

August 2012

347 pages

ISBN:9781450312820

DOI:10.1145/2362724

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Wessel Kraaij,
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Published: 21 August 2012

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Li R(2018)Cognitive and Psychological Factors in Cross-Language Information RetrievalEncyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch390(4490-4501)Online publication date: 2018
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