Everybody knows what relevance is. It is a" ya'know" notion, concept, idea–no need to
explain whatsoever. Searching for relevant information using information technology (IT) …

Relevant: Having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand.* Relevance:
The ability as of an information retrieval system to retrieve material that satisfies the needs of …

The publication of this issue marks a special event for the Journal of the American Society
for Information Science: the introduction of special topics issues. It seems appropriate that …

Relevance is a fundamental, though not completely understood, concept for documentation,
information science, and information retrieval. This article presents the history of relevance …

Synthesizing and building on many ideas from the literature, this article presents an
improved conceptual framework that clarifies the notion of relevance with its many elements …

Although relevance judgments are fundamental to the design and evaluation of all
information retrieval systems, information scientists have not reached a consensus in …

All is flux.—Plato on Knowledge in the Theaetetus (about 369 BC) Relevance is a, if not
even the, key notion in information science in general and information retrieval in particular …

The aim of an information retrieval system is to find relevant documents, thus relevance is a
(if not 'the') central concept of information retrieval. Notwithstanding its importance, and the …

This article proposes evaluation methods based on the use of nondichotomous relevance
judgements in IR experiments. It is argued that evaluation methods should credit IR methods …

Abstract Information science emerged as the third subject, along with logic and philosophy,
to deal with relevance‐an elusive, human notion. The concern with relevance, as a key …