Relevance: The whole history

@article{citeulike:2911587, abstract = {Relevance is a fundamental, though not completely understood, concept for documentation, information science, and information retrieval. This article presents the history of relevance through an exhaustive review of the literature. Such history being very complex (about 160 papers are discussed), it is not simple to describe it in a comprehensible way. Thus, first of all a framework for establishing a common ground is defined, and then the history itself is illustrated via the presentation in chronological order of the papers on relevance. The history is divided into three periods (ldquoBefore 1958,rdquo ldquo1959-1976,rdquo and ldquo1977-presentrdquo) and, inside each period, the papers on relevance are analyzed under seven different aspects (methodological foundations, different kinds of relevance, beyond-topical criteria adopted by users, modes for expression of the relevance judgment, dynamic nature of relevance, types of document representation, and agreement among different judges). {\copyright} 1997 John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.}, address = {Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universit\`{a} di Udine, Via delle Scienze, 206-Loc. Rizzi, 33100-Udine, Italy.}, author = {Mizzaro, Stefano }, citeulike-article-id = {2911587}, doi = {10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199709)48:9<810::AID-ASI6>3.0.CO;2-U}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science}, number = {9}, pages = {810--832}, posted-at = {2008-06-20 23:33:50}, priority = {2}, title = {Relevance: The whole history}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199709)48:9\%3C810::AID-ASI6\%3E3.0.CO;2-U}, volume = {48}, year = {1997} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2911587 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2911587 TI - Relevance: The whole history JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science VL - 48 IS - 9 SP - 810 EP - 832 AD - Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Udine, Via delle Scienze, 206-Loc. Rizzi, 33100-Udine, Italy. N2 - Relevance is a fundamental, though not completely understood, concept for documentation, information science, and information retrieval. This article presents the history of relevance through an exhaustive review of the literature. Such history being very complex (about 160 papers are discussed), it is not simple to describe it in a comprehensible way. Thus, first of all a framework for establishing a common ground is defined, and then the history itself is illustrated via the presentation in chronological order of the papers on relevance. The history is divided into three periods (ldquoBefore 1958,rdquo ldquo1959-1976,rdquo and ldquo1977-presentrdquo) and, inside each period, the papers on relevance are analyzed under seven different aspects (methodological foundations, different kinds of relevance, beyond-topical criteria adopted by users, modes for expression of the relevance judgment, dynamic nature of relevance, types of document representation, and agreement among different judges). © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. AU - Mizzaro, Stefano PY - 1997/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199709)48:9%3C810::AID-ASI6%3E3.0.CO;2-U ER -