The second trend is social
search driven by the fact that the Web has evolved to being a
huge repository of knowledge and a vast social environment.
By this, it is more effective to ask the members of a given
web environment rather than construct elaborate queries.
Although this short-circuits only the query formulation, but
information finding activities that are not expressible at all as
queries can be done against a fixed corpus. These will
somehow direct the research moving beyond the limited and
can addressed all the challenges in cross-lingual IR.