You can (not) say what you want: Using algospeak to contest and evade algorithmic content moderation on TikTok

E Steen, K Yurechko, D Klug - Social Media+ Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media users have long been aware of opaque content moderation systems and how
they shape platform environments. On TikTok, creators increasingly utilize algospeak to …

[HTML][HTML] E-government information search by English-as-a Second Language speakers: The effects of language proficiency and document reading level

M Harvey, D Brazier - Information Processing & Management, 2022 - Elsevier
A rapid increase in the use of web-based technologies–and corresponding changes in
government and local council policies–in recent years, means that many vital services are …

Boosting zero-shot cross-lingual retrieval by training on artificially code-switched data

R Litschko, E Artemova, B Plank - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.05295, 2023 - arxiv.org
Transferring information retrieval (IR) models from a high-resource language (typically
English) to other languages in a zero-shot fashion has become a widely adopted approach …

How do multilingual users search? An investigation of query and result list language choices

B Steichen, R Lowe - Journal of the Association for Information …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many users of search systems are multilingual, that is, they are proficient in two or more
languages. In order to better understand and support the language preferences and …

Mixed language queries in online searches: a study of intra-sentential code-switching from a qualitative perspective

H Fu - Aslib Journal of Information Management, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose With the increasing number of online multilingual resources, cross-language
information retrieval (CLIR) has drawn much attention from the information retrieval (IR) …

[PDF][PDF] Designing Conversational Agents for Education: A Preliminary Study of User Personality's Impact on Design

J Wang, J Dunkley, M Hamal, V Raut… - … International Journal of …, 2023 - academia.edu
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---------An educational conversational agent (CA) is a dialog system that can interact with …

Exploring Topic-Language Preferences in Multilingual Swahili Information Retrieval in Tanzania

JP Telemala, H Suleman - Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Habitual switching of languages is a common behaviour among polyglots when searching
for information on the Web. Studies in information retrieval (IR) and multilingual information …

Understanding multilingual web users' code‐switching behaviors in online searching

J Wang, A Komlodi, O Ka - Proceedings of the Association for …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of information in different languages on the Internet allows multilingual web
users to search in multiple languages for the same search task. When searchers can search …

Personalized multilingual search-predicting search result list language preferences

B Steichen, C Castillo, K Scroggins - … of the 28th ACM Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
With estimates suggesting that half of the world's population learns or speaks at least two
languages, Web information access systems such as Web search engines need to cater for …

Preemie Care: A Co-designed Digital Tool to Improve Communication Between Health Personnel and Parents of Preterm Infants

CW Mburu - 2022 - open.uct.ac.za
Communication between parents and health providers is essential in the Neonatal Intensive
Care Unit (NICU) settings to ensure both parties collaborate in infant care. However, in most …