Studies concerned with the evaluation of information systems have typically relied on judgments of relevance as the fundamental measure in determining system performance. In most cases, subjects are asked to assign a relevance score using some category rating scale (l-4, l-11, or simply relevant/non
The influence of document presentation order and number of documents judged on users' judgments of relevance
โ Scribed by Mu-hsuan Huang; Hui-yu Wang
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Volume
- 55
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-2882
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