In this paper, a single notion of exhaustivity will be defined in terms of relevance that accounts for (i) standard exhaustification; (ii) scalar readings; and the intuition that mention-some answers can sometimes be completely resolving. It will be shown that this notion of exhaustivity leaves something to be done for ‘only’. Moreover, an analysis will be given of ‘only’ in terms of relevance ...

Despite the centrality of topical relevance in information retrieval system design and evaluation, understanding and implementation of it is usually limited to “direct overall topical matching” between the subject of the query and the subject of the document. The underlying assumption is that only a single type of topical relationship is involved. In related work, a relevance judgment instrumen...

ƒ It's now time to go back to the user ƒ We have detailed a lot of tools and techniques that allow for sophisticated matching criteria to be applied, however in doing so we have implicitly assumed that the user " knows " how to formulate her queries/preferences ƒ In some cases the user does not know at all what to look for. In this case, a " browsing " activity should be supported. We do not co...