On the relationship between effectiveness and accessibility

Azzopardi, L. and Bache, R. (2010) On the relationship between effectiveness and accessibility. In: 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Geneva, Switzerland, 19-23 Jul 2010, ISBN 9781450301534 (doi: 10.1145/1835449.1835667)

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Abstract

Typically the evaluation of Information Retrieval (IR) systems is focused upon two main system attributes: efficiency and effectiveness. However, it has been argued that it is also important to consider accessibility, i.e. the extent to which the IR system makes information easily accessible. But, it is unclear how accessibility relates to typical IR evaluation, and specifically whether there is a trade-off between accessibility and effectiveness. In this poster, we empirically explore the relationship between effectiveness and accessibility to determine whether the two objectives i.e. maximizing effectiveness and maximizing accessibility, are compatible, or not. To this aim, we empirically examine this relationship using two popular IR models and explore the trade-off between access and performance as these models are tuned.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Keywords:evaluation, retrievability, information retrieval, findability, accessibility
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Azzopardi, Dr Leif and Bache, Dr Richard
Authors: Azzopardi, L., and Bache, R.
Subjects:Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
ISBN:9781450301534

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