Relevance
Relevance is the quality of being closely connected to or important for a particular matter. In everyday use, something is relevant if it helps address the issue at hand or supports a stated goal. Relevance is often relative, varying with the user’s needs, context, and information goals.
In information retrieval and search, relevance refers to how well a document or result satisfies a user’s
In logic and philosophy, relevance concerns whether a premise bears on the conclusion of an argument. Relevance
In statistics and machine learning, relevance can describe the informativeness of a feature for predicting an
In communication theory, relevance theory, proposed by Sperber and Wilson, posits that readers and listeners seek
In law and evidence, relevance refers to information that has probative value for a matter at issue,
Relevance is a practical criterion across disciplines: it guides selection, attention, and inference, and it remains