Purpose – There is a lack of efficiency when dealing with information and searching for the right content. Aims to …

Purpose – To suggest that a theory of classification for information retrieval (IR), asked for by Spärck Jones in a … celebration, “60 years of the best in information research”. Design/methodology/approach – Literature‐based conceptual analysis …

pragmatic information. Research limitations/implications – Research findings signify the critical need for linking discourse … structure and contextualized pragmatic information to knowledge representation and organization schemes. Originality/value – The … discourse structure and contextualized pragmatic information.  …

Purpose – Automated sentence‐level relevance and novelty detection would be of direct benefit to many information … to eliminate sentences that do not provide novel information. This paper aims to explore a new approach in which … relevance and novelty judgments are made within the context of specific, factual information needs, rather than with respect to …

translators' information needs and use of resources to meet those needs. Design/methodology/approach – This research is … are related to several theories relating task characteristics and information behavior (IB). Findings – The findings … support some of Byström's findings about relationship between task and information use but also suggest new hypotheses or …