Relevance: communication and cognition
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Information retrieval interaction
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Information retrieval and the philosophy of language
The Computer Journal - Special issue on information retrieval
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User-defined relevance criteria: an exploratory study
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: relevance research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: relevance research
Toward a new horizon in information science: domain-analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Topical relevance relationships. I: why topic matching fails
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Variations in relevance assessments and the measurement of retrieval effectiveness
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: evaluation of information retrieval systems
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Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on scientific discovery
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Users' criteria for relevance evaluation: a cross-situational comparison
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Aligning studies of information seeking and use with domain analysis
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on the 50th anniversary of the Journal of The American Society for Information Science: part 2: paradigms, models and methods of information science
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Web search behavior of Internet experts and newbies
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A review of web searching studies and a framework for future research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Using Subject Headings for Online Retrieval: Theory, Practice, and Potential
Using Subject Headings for Online Retrieval: Theory, Practice, and Potential
Probabilistic approaches to the document retrieval problem
SIGIR '82 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Do nondomain experts enlist the strategies of domain experts?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The concept of relevance in IR
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A survey on the use of relevance feedback for information access systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
User-Oriented Relevance Judgment: A Conceptual Model
HICSS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 4 - Volume 04
Dynamic information and library processing
Dynamic information and library processing
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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When bibliometric data are converted to term frequency (tf) and inverse document frequency (idf) values, plotted as pennant diagrams, and interpreted according to Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory (RT), the results evoke major variables of information science (IS). These include topicality, in the sense of intercohesion and intercoherence among texts; cognitive effects of texts in response to people's questions; people's levels of expertise as a precondition for cognitive effects; processing effort as textual or other messages are received; specificity of terms as it affects processing effort; relevance, defined in RT as the effects/effort ratio; and authority of texts and their authors. While such concerns figure automatically in dialogues between people, they become problematic when people create or use or judge literature-based information systems. The difficulty of achieving worthwhile cognitive effects and acceptable processing effort in human-system dialogues explains why relevance is the central concern of IS. Moreover, since relevant communication with both systems and unfamiliar people is uncertain, speakers tend to seek cognitive effects that cost them the least effort. Yet hearers need greater effort, often greater specificity, from speakers if their responses are to be highly relevant in their turn. This theme of mismatch manifests itself in vague reference questions, underdeveloped online searches, uncreative judging in retrieval evaluation trials, and perfunctory indexing. Another effect of least effort is a bias toward topical relevance over other kinds. RT can explain these outcomes as well as more adaptive ones. Pennant diagrams, applied here to a literature search and a Bradford-style journal analysis, can model them. Given RT and the right context, bibliometrics may predict psychometrics. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.