On the Concept of Relevance in Legal Information Retrieval
23 Pages Posted: 16 Mar 2017 Last revised: 27 Mar 2017
Date Written: 2017
Abstract
The concept of ‘relevance’ is crucial to legal information retrieval, but because of its intuitive understanding it goes undefined too easily and unexplored too often. We discuss a conceptual framework on relevance within legal information retrieval, based on a typology of relevance dimensions used within general information retrieval science, but tailored to the specific features of legal information. This framework can be used for the development and improvement of legal information retrieval systems.
Keywords: Legal information retrieval, Relevance, Legal information seeking behaviour
JEL Classification: K00
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