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Mnews: A Study Of Multilingual News Search Interfaces, Chenjun Ling
Mnews: A Study Of Multilingual News Search Interfaces, Chenjun Ling
Engineering Ph.D. Theses
With the global expansion of the Internet and the World Wide Web, users are becoming increasingly diverse, particularly in terms of languages. In fact, the number of polyglot Web users across the globe has increased dramatically.
However, even such multilingual users often continue to suffer from unbalanced and fragmented news information, as traditional news access systems seldom allow users to simultaneously search for and/or compare news in different languages, even though prior research results have shown that multilingual users make significant use of each of their languages when searching for information online.
Relatively little human-centered research has been conducted to …