Subjective relevance : implications on interface design for information retrieval systems

• 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/10356/79625; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6127
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Information retrieval (IR) systems are traditionally developed using the objective relevance approach based on the “best match” principle assuming that users can specify their needs in queries and that the documents retrieved are relevant to them. This paper advocates a subjective relevance (SR) app...