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Ingwersen, Peter – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 1999
Reviews and discusses critically the development during the last decade of the cognitive approach to information retrieval research and theory. The focus is analytic and empirical research on the complex nature of information need formation and situation, their inherent association with the concept of relevance, and the development of cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Epistemology, Information Processing, Information Retrieval