In this section, we will introduce the basic cognitive notion of relevance and the Cognitive Principle of Relevance, which lay the foundation for the relevance-theoretic approach to pragmatics.

This two-part critical review traces and synthesizes the scholarship on relevance over the past 30 years and pro-vides an updated framework within which the still widely dissonant ideas and …

The authors describe a new statistical concept called relevance from a conceptual and mathematical perspective, and based on their mathematical framework, they present a unified …

At the centre of the hard core of relevance theory are the cognitive principle of relevance and the defini-tion of relevance as a trade-off of cognitive benefit against processing cost. e ...

Relevance theory grounds its account of utterance interpretation within a general claim about cognitive design, the claim that human cognition is geared towards the maximisation of …

Over the past twenty years, relevance theory has become a key area of study within semantics and pragmatics. In this comprehensive new textbook, Billy Clark introduces the key elements …

In information retrieval, the notion of relevance is used in three main contexts. Firstly, an algorithmic relevance score is assigned to a search result (usually a whole document) …