Toward a Broader Logical Model for Information Retrieval

The ultimate goal of Information Retrieval (IR) is to retrieve all and only the relevant documents for a user’s information need. Consequently a good IR model is the one which gives each document a relevance estimation as close as possible to the user’s own relevance judgement. The crucial problem in IR modelling is to correctly capture the notion of relevance within a computational model.

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