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Peer reviewedYao, Y. Y. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
Discusses user preferences for the representation, interpretation, and measurement of the relevance or usefulness of retrieved documents. Highlights include measurement of user judgments on documents; distance between rankings; measures of retrieval effectiveness; normalized performance measure; and the relationship of distance-based measures to…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Mathematical Formulas, Measurement Techniques, Relevance (Information Retrieval)
Peer reviewedCollantes, Lourdes Y. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
Discussion of users and information retrieval systems highlights a study that investigated the representation of users' knowledge by examining their names for objects and concepts, agreement on names, the Library of Congress Subject Headings representation for similar objects and concepts, and measurement of the similarity between these…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Representation, Man Machine Systems
