An assertion can be a factual claim or the expression of a value judgment. Since Hume the view that these are two incompatible types of assertions that cannot be connected by argumentation, has often been defended, and, more recently, has also been called into question. In the following paper I attempt to show that the truth both of a descriptive sentence and of a normative sentence is derived ...

Magnitude estimation is a psychophysical scaling technique where the intensity of a stimulus is rated by the assignment of a number. We report on a preliminary investigation on using magnitude estimation for gathering document relevance judgements, as commonly used in test collectionbased evaluation of information retrieval systems. Unlike classical binary or ordinal relevance scales, magnitude...

The Master said, " When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them. " The Lunyu: BooK VII Shu'er Confucius, 551 BCE-479 BCE to my family for making it possible Summary Collaborative filtering is the common technique of predicting the interests of a user by collecting preference informatio...

This paper discusses some of the challenges encountered whilst researching and writing a thesis that explores individual understandings of "relevance" and "topic." It is based upon a discussion paper and presentation prepared as part of the Doctoral Workshop held during the ISIC 2000 Conference in Borås, Sweden. The focus of this paper is the doing of qualitative research. To provide a framewor...

Discussion of relevance has permeated the information science literature for the past 50+ years, and yet we are no closer to resolution of the matter. In this research we developed a set of measures to operationalize the dimensions underpinning Saracevic’s manifestations of relevance. We used an existing data set collected from 48 participants who used a web search engine to complete four searc...

Introduction: Traditional methods are generally used for teaching basic science courses at Shiraz Medical School. Such courses are taught during the first and second years of a seven-year medical program. The goal of this study was to analyze teachers and students’ perceptions of basic science teaching in medical education.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the colleg...

attention to character of relevance and proportion in qur'anic text plays a key role in correct understanding and secure interpretation of this scripture. achieveing to its conceptual grace and some of its secrets is required such attention. according to the statistical analysis in this study, without taking into account name of allah, god's attributes constitute nearly two percent of...