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On the impact of domain expertise on query formulation, relevance assessment and retrieval performance in clinical settings

L. Tamine,C. Chouquet

2017 · DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2016.11.004
Information Processing & Management · 37 Citations

TLDR

The results show that medical domain expertise significantly influences the perception of relevance even among users with similar levels of expertise and reinforces the idea that a single ground truth does not exist, thereby leading to the variability of system rankings with respect to the level of users expertise.