How many relevances in information retrieval?
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Vol. 10 (3) , 303-320
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0953-5438(98)00012-5
Abstract
The aim of an information retrieval system is to find relevant documents, thus relevance is a (if not ‘the’) central concept of information retrievalKeywords
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