Many current effectiveness measures incorporate simplifying assumptions about user behavior. These assumptions prevent the measures from reflecting aspects of the search process...
The VoxBoox system makes digital books accessible to visually impaired individuals via audio and voice. It automatically translates a book published in HTML to VoiceXML, and then ...
Many museum and library archives are digitizing their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts to enable public access to them. These collections are only available...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags that add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid quer...
—The strategies for the preservation of historical documents can include their digitization, which is an effective way to make them publicly available while preventing degradatio...