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Relevance for browsing, relevance for searching

✍ Scribed by David Bodoff

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 193 KB
Volume: 57
Category: Article
ISSN: 1532-2882
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20254

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The 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 browsing. Some factors affect both kinds of relevance in the same direction; others affect them in different ways. In our empirical study, we find that the latter factors dominate, so that there is actually a negative correlation between the probability of a document's relevance to a browsing user and its probability of relevance to a focused searcher.

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