The Influence of Language Proficiency on Book Search Behaviour

Mette Skov, Toine Bogers

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Abstract

In this paper we describe our participation in the Interactive Social Book Search task at CLEF 2015. We focus our analysis on differences in search behaviour between native and non-native speakers of English. The analysis is based on both questionnaire and log data. 49 participants out of the 192 total participants are native speakers and the remaining 143 participants are nonnative speakers. In general results show surprisingly few differences in search behaviour between native and non-native speakers. Non-native speakers spent more time on both the focused and the open task than the native speakers, but no significant differences were found in relation to number of queries, query length, depth of results inspection, number of books added to the book-bag, or length of notes explaining why a book was added to the book-bag.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWorking Notes of CLEF2015 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
EditorsLinda Cappellato, Ferro Nicola, Gareth J. F. Jones, Eric San Juan
Number of pages6
PublisherCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publication date8 Sept 2015
Publication statusPublished - 8 Sept 2015
Externally publishedYes
EventCLEF 2015: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum - Toulouse, France
Duration: 8 Sept 201511 Sept 2015

Conference

ConferenceCLEF 2015
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityToulouse
Period08/09/201511/09/2015
SeriesCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume1391
ISSN1613-0073

Keywords

  • Interactive Social Book Search
  • Search Behaviour Analysis
  • Native vs Non-Native English Speakers
  • User Log Data
  • Information Retrieval Evaluation

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