This paper introduces the concept of accessibility from the field of transportation planning and adopts it within the context of Information Retrieval (IR). An analogy is drawn bet...
Abstract. In this paper we propose the clustering of top-ranking sentences (TRS) for effective information access. Top-ranking sentences are selected by a query-biased sentence ex...
Many types of information available in a pervasive computing environment, such as people location information, should be accessible only by a limited set of people. Some propertie...
Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...
Current information systems are more and more complex. They require more interactions between different components and users. So, ensuring system security must not be limited to us...