A new approach to the concept of 'relevance' in information retrieval (IR)

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2001, Pages 348-352

  Kagolovsky, Yuri ^a   Möhr, Jochen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evaluation Studies; Information Retrieval; Relevance

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

ANALYTIC APPROACH; CONCEPTUAL IR; EVALUATION STUDY; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; NEW APPROACHES; RELEVANCE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EVALUATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EVALUATION STUDIES; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 84888028175     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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