Zusammenfassung
This paper addresses the notion of aboutness in information retrieval. First, an exposition
is given on how aboutness relates to relevance - a fundamental notion in information retrieval.
A short summary is given on how aboutness is defined in more prominent information retrieval
models. A model-theoretic definition of aboutness is then analyzed in an abstract setting using
so called information fields. These allows properties of aboutness to be expressed independent
of any given information...
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