A user study on features supporting subjective relevance for information retrieval interfaces

• Main Authors: Foo, Schubert, Theng, Yin-Leng, Lee, Shu Shing, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information storage and retrieval
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79623; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6124
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Objective relevance regards retrieved documents as relevant without considering users’ tasks. Subjective relevance, in contrast, focuses on usefulness of documents for users’ contexts. This paper aims to enhance objective relevance and address its limitations by designing a mock-up interface based o...