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Information Access: Do You Mind?

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Author(s)

John V. Cugini

Abstract

Successful execution of many information-based tasks depends crucially on contextual knowledge. Language processing is particularly sensitive to context, and I will concentrate on it in this extended abstract as the example par excellence of knowledge-dependent information access.
Citation
Special Publication (NIST SP) - 990,
Report Number
990,

Citation

Cugini, J. (2002), Information Access: Do You Mind?, Special Publication (NIST SP), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.990 (Accessed October 24, 2025)

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Created September 1, 2002, Updated November 10, 2018
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