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Peer reviewedHersh, William – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Discusses topical relevance and situational relevance, which takes into account the impact of the retrieval system on the user, in the context of medicine. Topics addressed include scientific validity; limitations of current evaluation methodology, including recall and precision; and a framework for future retrieval research based on an…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Medical Research, Medicine
