The degree to which the objectives of a programme or project remain valid and pertinent as originally planned or as subsequently modified owing to changing circumstances within the immediate context and external environment of that programme or project For an outcome, the extent to which the outcome reflects key national priorities and receives support from key partners
The document relevance bar is an expression of the calculated relevance of this document compared to the other documents in the same result set Ranges are from zero to 100, where 100 is the most relevant The calculation is based on hit clustering, cluster proximity, document density, word weight and other factors
Importance or significance Differential feature of a subset of information that makes it of interest for the receiver Relevance is a key concept, because it depends on the subject receiving the information What is relevant for one person can be useless for another and hence can be disinformation or even 'rubbish' Relevance is especially important when speaking about information retrieval
An explanation's appropriate relationship to the thing being explained An explanation is fully relevant if it permits us to predict the phenomena's occurrence
activation of a seme There exist three types of relevance (linguistic, generic or situational), depending on whether the activation is prescribed by the functional system of language, the textual genre, or the practice involved
what determines a good match for a query is a major subject of research Algorithms rely on frequency of keywords, order, prominence, expert indexing, and popularity of a result for a given keyword Advanced search engines often consider these types of capabilities -- spell-checking, synonym substitution (if they look for 'jobs' they might also want 'careers'), stop words (the term 'web' doesn't usefully distinguish web pages, so ignore it), fuzzy queries (allow non-exact matches), and stem words (if they asked for 'biking' also look for 'bike')
Something's relevance to a situation or person is its importance or significance in that situation or to that person. Politicians' private lives have no relevance to their public roles
In certain searches TrinCat will determine which items are the most closely related to your topic These items will display in red (5 dots) and will rank books down to black (1 dot)
the extent to which the aid activity is consistent with the priorities and policies of the Target Group, recipient, and donor
The characteristic of being appropriately retrieved in response to a given query
A measure of how closely a database entry matches a search request Most search tools on the Web return results based on relevance The specific algorithm for computing relevance varies from one service to another, but it's often based on the number of times terms in the search expression appear in the document and whether they appear in the appropriate fields