Posts Tagged: relevance

Faceted Navigation: Grouping – An UnTapped Potential?

In the broadest sense of the term, “relevance” in information seeking is difficult to pin down. If we say information is “relevant,” we also need to ask to whom is it relevant, which parts, in which context, and for what

Faceted Navigation: Grouping – An UnTapped Potential?

In the broadest sense of the term, “relevance” in information seeking is difficult to pin down. If we say information is “relevant,” we also need to ask to whom is it relevant, which parts, in which context, and for what

John Ferrara on Measuring Relevance

John Ferrara is an expert in online search systems. His recent article in A List Part is one of the first ones I know of outside of the academic literature that takes a systematic look at relevance. See: Testing Search

John Ferrara on Measuring Relevance

John Ferrara is an expert in online search systems. His recent article in A List Part is one of the first ones I know of outside of the academic literature that takes a systematic look at relevance. See: Testing Search

Is Relevance Relevant?

For decades, information science has developed and examined the notion of relevance in information retrieval (IR). By and large, the approach to measuring relevance has been rather technical. Recall and precision have been the two main measures: Recall looks at

Is Relevance Relevant?

For decades, information science has developed and examined the notion of relevance in information retrieval (IR). By and large, the approach to measuring relevance has been rather technical. Recall and precision have been the two main measures: Recall looks at