Relationship between index term specificity and relevance judgment

@article{citeulike:3042526, abstract = {Concurrent concepts of specificity are discussed and differentiated from each other to investigate the relationship between index term specificity and users' relevance judgments. The identified concepts are term-document specificity, hierarchical specificity, statement specificity, and posting specificity. Among them, term-document specificity, which is a relationship between an index term and the document indexed with the term, is regarded as a fruitful research area. In an experiment involving three searches with 175 retrieved documents from 356 matched index terms, the impact of specificity on relevance judgments is analyzed and found to be statistically significant. Implications for index practice and for future research are discussed.}, author = {Kim, Giyeong }, citeulike-article-id = {3042526}, doi = {10.1016/j.ipm.2005.12.004}, journal = {Information Processing \& Management}, keywords = {new}, month = {September}, number = {5}, pages = {1218--1229}, posted-at = {2008-07-25 12:48:19}, priority = {2}, title = {Relationship between index term specificity and relevance judgment}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2005.12.004}, volume = {42}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3042526 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3042526 TI - Relationship between index term specificity and relevance judgment JF - Information Processing & Management VL - 42 IS - 5 SP - 1218 EP - 1229 N2 - Concurrent concepts of specificity are discussed and differentiated from each other to investigate the relationship between index term specificity and users' relevance judgments. The identified concepts are term-document specificity, hierarchical specificity, statement specificity, and posting specificity. Among them, term-document specificity, which is a relationship between an index term and the document indexed with the term, is regarded as a fruitful research area. In an experiment involving three searches with 175 retrieved documents from 356 matched index terms, the impact of specificity on relevance judgments is analyzed and found to be statistically significant. Implications for index practice and for future research are discussed. KW - new AU - Kim, Giyeong PY - 2006/09// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2005.12.004 ER -