Relevance Judgment in Epistemic and Hedonic Information Searches

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-189

  Xu, Yunjie ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY THEORY; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATIVE RELEVANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING CONTEXTS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33846342149     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20461     Document Type: Article

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