User Perspectives on Relevance Criteria: A Comparison among Relevant, Partially Relevant, and Not-Relevant Judgments.

Maglaughlin, Kelly L.; Sonnenwald, Diane H.

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ERIC Number: EJ647583

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Publication Date: 2002

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User Perspectives on Relevance Criteria: A Comparison among Relevant, Partially Relevant, and Not-Relevant Judgments.

Maglaughlin, Kelly L.; Sonnenwald, Diane H.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v53 n5 p327-42 Mar 2002

Investigates the use of criteria to assess relevant, partially relevant, and not-relevant documents in information retrieval. Analysis revealed 29 criteria used by graduate students when selecting passages that contributed or detracted from a documents' relevance, the two most frequent being content and criteria characterizing the full text document. (Contains 53 references.) (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Content Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Graduate Study, Information Retrieval, Online Searching, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Search Strategies

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Language: English

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