Look up: relevance

1. relevance
   (information science) A measure of how closely a given object (file, web page, database record, etc.) matches a user's search for information. The relevance algorithms used in most large web search engines today are based on fairly simple word-occurence measurement: if the word 'daffodil' occurs on ...
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2. relevance
   [n] - the relation of something to the matter at hand
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3. Relevance
   Getting statistical significance is not necessarily the end of the story. In any experiment you would also want to see practical significance, which is not always present. In practical terms, the statistically significant difference may be so small as to be irrelevant. Noe that we may see practical ...
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4. relevance
   the quality of items recovered by a retrieval system to fulfil the needs of the users Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • the extent to which the activities and results of a project are in harmony with the intended impacts and goals Category: Politics
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5. Relevance
   Rel'e·vance (r?l'?*v a ns), Rel'e*van*cy (-v a n*s?) noun 1. The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability. « Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore.» Poe. 2.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/45
   
   
6. relevance
   relevancy noun the relation of something to the matter at hand
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7. Relevance
   • (n.) Alt. of Relevancy
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8. relevance
   (from the article `evidence`) In civil proceedings in the common-law countries, evidence is both ascertained and simultaneously restricted by the assertions of the parties. If the ...
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9. Relevance
   (information retrieval) In information science and information retrieval, `relevance` denotes how well a retrieved document or set of documents meets the information need of the user. Types: Relevance most commonly refers to topical relevance or aboutness, i.e. to what ex...
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10. Relevance
    Definition: Something (A) is relevant to a task (T) if it increases the likelihood of accomplishing the goal (G), which is implied by T. (Hjørland & Sejer Christensen,2002). A thing might be relevant, a document or a piece of information may be relevant. The basic understanding of relevance d...
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11. Relevance
    (law) `Relevance`, in the common law of evidence, is the tendency of a given item of evidence to prove or disprove one of the legal elements of the case, or to have probative value to make one of the elements of the case likelier or not. `Probative` is a term used in law to signify "tend...
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