User-defined relevance criteria: an exploratory study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: relevance research
A cognitive model of document use during a research project. Study I. document selection
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Users' criteria for relevance evaluation: a cross-situational comparison
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Document representations and clues to document relevance
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
From highly relevant to not relevant: examining different regions of relevance
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Children's relevance criteria and information seeking on electronic resources
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Relevance and contributing information types of searched documents in task performance
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Relevance thresholds: a multi-stage predictive model of how users evaluate information
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Relevance judgment: What do information users consider beyond topicality?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Research Articles
Relevance criteria identified by health information users during Web searches: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Relevance judgment in epistemic and hedonic information searches
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Relationships between categories of relevance criteria and stage in task completion
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Is relevance hard work?: evaluating the effort of making relevant assessments
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Knowledge behaviour and social adoption of innovation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Relevance judgments occur within an information search process, where time, context and situation can impact the judgments. The determination of relevance is dependent on a number of factors and variables which include the criteria used to determine relevance. The relevance judgment process and the criteria used to make those judgments are manifestations of the cognitive changes which occur during the information search process. Understanding why these relevance criteria choices are made, and how they vary over the information search process can provide important information about the dynamic relevance judgment process. This information can be used to guide the development of more adaptive information retrieval systems which respond to the cognitive changes of users during the information search process. The research data analyzed here was collected in two separate studies which examined a subject's relevance judgment over an information search process. Statistical analysis was used to examine these results and determine if there were relationships between criteria selections, relevance judgments, and the subject's progression through the information search process. Findings confirm and extend findings of previous studies, providing strong statistical evidence of an association between the information search process and the choices of relevance criteria by users, and identifying specific changes in the user preferences for specific criteria over the course of the information search process.