IS RELEVANCE AN ADEQUATE CRITERION IN RETRIEVAL SYSTEM EVALUATION

Abstract

It is argued that the use of 'relevance to a search request' as a criterion of what a system retrieves is, in effect, a suboptimization on the machine side of the man-machine interface. Also that the searcher needs an efficient exploratory system rather than a request-implementing system.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 1963
Accession Number
AD0410766

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