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Positive Relevance

Positive Relevance is a probabilistic relation in confirmation theory where evidence is said to confirm a hypothesis if the likelihood of the hypothesis given the evidence exceeds its prior probability, thereby distinguishing it from neutral or disconfirming evidence.

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Relevance theory explains the selection task

Dan Sperber · Cognition · 1995 · 709 citations

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Sentential adverbs and relevance

Elly Ifantidou · Lingua · 1993 · 203 citations

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Here or there: preference judgments for relevance

Ben Carterette, Paul N. Bennett, David Maxwell Chickering et al. · ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) · 2008 · 154 citations · Full text

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Subjective and Objective Confirmation

Patrick Maher · Philosophy of Science · 1996 · 121 citations

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Users' relevance criteria in image retrieval in American history

Youngok Choi, Edie Rasmussen · Information Processing & Management · 2002 · 117 citations

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    Henrik Singmann

    University of Zurich, Switzerland

    2 publications · 148 citations

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    Zhigeng Fang

    Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

    2 publications · 37 citations

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  3. HS
    Hongxing Shi

    Beijing University of Technology, China

    2 publications · 37 citations

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  4. NS
    Niels Skovgaard‐Olsen

    University of Freiburg, Germany

    2 publications · 148 citations

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  5. NJ
    Nicholas J. Belkin

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

    2 publications · 78 citations

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  1. University of Konstanz

    Konstanz, Germany

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    148 citations

  2. University of Tennessee at Knoxville

    Knoxville, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    104 citations

  3. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    New Brunswick, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    166 citations

  4. Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

    Nanjing, China

    2 h-index

    8 publications

    148 citations

  5. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    134 citations

  6. University of Freiburg

    Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    242 citations

  7. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    388 citations

  8. École Polytechnique

    Palaiseau, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    709 citations

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  1. Philosophy of Science

    3 publications · 172 citations

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  2. Cognition

    3 publications · 892 citations

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  3. Journal of Pragmatics

    2 publications · 39 citations

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  5. Lingua

    2 publications · 215 citations

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