Abstract:
Web based searching plays a vital role in
systematic review which is a literature review method
designed to locate the best available evidence relating to a
specific topic. In addition to English language, languages
such as German, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Chinese
(Mandarin) considerably contribute in web based
information propagation. On the other hand, publications
related to some regional specific scientific research areas
(e.g.: earthquake and tsunami) and especially some art
and literature related research areas fully or partially in
a language other than English. Thus, searching based on
single language definitely not provide complete appraise
and synthesize of a research question. Therefore, in this
paper we propose searching in multiple languages to gain
much better evidence about the intended topic. Initial
findings showed that the number of search results in
Japanese language gave 89 times more results than search
results in English when searching topics that has regional
importance (e.g.: “"Earthquake resistant buildings"”).
However, this is an exhausting and time consuming task;
because the researcher has to do the same search several
times in different languages. This drawback is because
none of the popular search engines is capable of providing
results in different languages simultaneously (e.g.:
English, German, etc.) to a search topic in one language
(e.g.: English). Therefore, to have better systematic
review, we propose a search engine that is capable of
taking search topic in one language and providing
ordered results in multiple languages simultaneously,
including a brief translation in intended language.
