Many document search systems display search results with snippets,
i.e., brief excerpts from the matched documents. It helps users
quickly locate relevant documents in the result list, but when users
search for documents in non-native languages, they cannot read
snippets quickly. In this paper, we compare two methods of presenting
a search result for such non-native language documents. One is to
show a snippet translated into the user's native language, whereas the
other is to show the original snippet together with several keyphrases
extracted from the document and translated into the user's native
language. The result of our experiment shows that the translated
snippets is not effective while the translated keyphrases are in
non-native language document search.
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