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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | SIGIR '10 Proceedings of the 33rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval |
| Place of Publication | New York, NY, USA |
| Pages | 889-890 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 19 Jul 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- accessibility
- retrievability
- information retrieval
- findability
- evaluation