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  "definition": "The degree to which a retrieved item satisfies an information need, query, topic, or evaluation criterion.",
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      "type": "related"
    }
  ],
  "id": "relevance",
  "kind": "GeneralConcept",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "Relevance: The whole history",
      "type": "canonicalSurvey",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199701)48:9%3C810::AID-ASI6%3E3.0.CO;2-U"
    }
  ],
  "modifiedAt": "2026-09-12T22:23:29Z",
  "prefLabel": "Relevance",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Searchplex",
    "url": "https://searchplex.net/"
  },
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    {
      "note": "Qrels are stored relevance judgments used for evaluation; relevance is the concept those judgments assess.",
      "target": "qrels",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Relevance is the relationship or criterion being estimated; ranking is the task of ordering results, often according to estimated relevance.",
      "target": "ranking",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "note": "Relevance is the underlying relationship between an item and an information need; a relevance judgment is an assessment or label of that relationship.",
      "target": "relevance-judgment",
      "type": "notEquivalentTo"
    },
    {
      "target": "ranking",
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    },
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      "target": "relevance-judgment",
      "type": "related"
    },
    {
      "target": "retrieval",
      "type": "related"
    }
  ],
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  "scopeNote": "In information retrieval evaluation, relevance may be binary or graded and is usually operationalized through relevance judgments. Relevance is the evaluation target, not itself a metric or a qrels file.",
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}