Multilingual information retrieval on the Internet: A case study of Turkish users

International Information and Library Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 275-284

  Aytac, Selenay ^a  

^a ISIK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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EID: 28944446704     PISSN: 10572317     EISSN: 10959297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10572317.2005.10762685     Document Type: Article

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