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Stirling, Keith H. – 1977
As the use of online literature searching systems increases, the need for reducing the amount of nonrelevant material encountered by the users becomes more apparent. One method for achieving greater selectivity in document retrieval is by using relevance (or utility) estimates from past users to estimate document values for future users. However,…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Input Output