Evaluating the impact of personal dictionaries for cross-language information retrieval of socially annotated images
Diana Tănase, Epaminondas Kapetanios · WestminsterResearch (University of Westminster) · 2008
These working notes focus on the users ’ actions in order to assist translations and on the usage of personal dictionaries (a feature which enables saving user added words). The special interest for this feature comes from a need to investigate to what extent users get actively involved in the query translation and contribute to overcoming the limitations of automatic translations. It is also our hope that by understanding the relationship between user language skills and the usage of the personal dictionary feature in the iCLIR context, we will be able to get at least a partial answer to a bigger question regarding collaborative translations in today’s participatory web space.