SINCERITY: A Search Engine for Image Retrieval

摘要

This article presents the third and last phase of a research project wherein the search engine SINCERITY was tested with a sample of images and image searchers. The performance of the two main searching features of the image search engine (the keyword box and taxonomic structure) is compared. In addition, this study aims to understand the effect of users' language on their language preferences when searching for images. Both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered using search retrieval tasks and a questionnaire.