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The Relevant Question and the Question of Relevance

International Conference on Computers in Education, 2011
This paper brings together two perspectives on current developments in information and communications technology (ICT) utilized for the purposes of learning, education, and training (LET). One perspective is concerned with governance and legitimacy issues regarding the process and relevance of standards development; the other, is concerned with the ...
Jon Mason, Tore Hoel
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Relevance

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
AbstractThe concept of relevance is fundamental to information retrieval, yet the literature shows a diversity of meaning for this term. It is suggested that for this term to be of use in discussions of information retrieval systems, the term should be tied as directly as possible to the goals and operations of these systems, and one such definition is
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The relevant relevance

Journal of Pragmatics, 1991
Abstract Given that conversation is a particular kind of goal-directed behavior, the kind of relevance that is relevant to conversational implicature concerns the utility of conversational contributions, as linguistic acts, with regard to conversational goals.
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The Relevance of Relevance to Relevance Logic

2015
I explore the question of whether the concept of relevance is relevant to the study of what Anderson and Belnap call “relevance logic.” The answer should be “Of course!” But there are some twists and turns, as is shown by the fact that it has taken over 50 years to get here. Despite protests by R. K.
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Relevance for browsing, relevance for searching

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2005
AbstractThe concept of relevance has received a great deal of theoretical attention. Separately, the relationship between focused search and browsing has also received extensive theoretical attention. This article aims to integrate these two literatures with a model and an empirical study that relate relevance in focused searching to relevance in ...
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Searching for Relevance in the Relevance of Search

2005
Discussion of relevance has permeated the information science literature for the past 50+ years, and yet we are no closer to resolution of the matter. In this research we developed a set of measures to operationalize the dimensions underpinning Saracevic's manifestations of relevance. We used an existing data set collected from 48 participants who used
Elaine G. Toms, Heather L. O'Brien, Richard W. Kopak, Luanne Freund   +3 more
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Matters of relevance

Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1972
Forswearing venerable doctrine, some now claim that the truth-value of a statement A, and — more generally — that of a theory T, hinges upon (the truth-values of) all other statements from the same language as A or T. I should like to investigate this matter as regards languages of four main sorts: first-order languages without a box (called here L1 ...
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Geographic relevance

SIGSPATIAL Special, 2011
Geographic information is increasingly used in mobile contexts. Mobility constrains several aspects of this mobile usage, such as limited screen estate, number of desired interactions, or availability due to battery time. As a consequence designers and developers of mobile geographic applications strive to reduce the amount of information delivered to ...
Reichenbacher Tumasch, De Sabbata Stefano   +1 more
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