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ERIC Number: EJ483780
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8231
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Relevance and Retrieval Evaluation: Perspectives from Medicine.
Hersh, William
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, v45 n3 p201-06 Apr 1994
Discusses topical relevance and situational relevance, which takes into account the impact of the retrieval system on the user, in the context of medicine. Topics addressed include scientific validity; limitations of current evaluation methodology, including recall and precision; and a framework for future retrieval research based on an outcomes-oriented approach. (Contains 31 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Medical Research, Medicine, Models, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Research Needs, Scientific and Technical Information, Users (Information), Validity
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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