This paper concerns on the influence of the natural and social properties on language usage in Web searching, and seeks to make an exploratory study on the elements that affect user’s behavior. It synthesizes the results from Web questionnaire survey and controlled experiment in which users participate, and comes to the conclusion on the difference among gender, age, educational background and professional education in searching. This research contributes to the study on the elements that affect searching process, the modeling of user behavior and the improvement of search engines’ quality of service.
赖茂生,屈鹏. 用户自然和社会属性对网络搜索中语言使用行为的影响[J]. 现代图书情报技术, 2008, 24(7): 54-60.
Lai Maosheng,Qu Peng. The Influences of Natural and Social Properties of Users on the Language Usage in Web Searching. New Technology of Library and Information Service, 2008, 24(7): 54-60.
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