nonrelevant

nonrelevant

(nɒnˈrɛləvənt)
adj
not relevant
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Rocchio suggested the system could use the characteristics (that is, word frequencies and distributions) of the information objects judged relevant or not in order to modify (reformulate) the original query, until the query eventually became ideal, separating relevant from nonrelevant objects in the best possible way.
Noninduced subgraph matching abstracts from all nonrelevant relations in left-hand sides, but if nodes are deleted, all incident edges of the node must also be deleted automatically.
If the databases cannot rank the relevant documents high and the nonrelevant ones low with complete index information, it is asking too much that vGlOSS derive relevance judgments with only partial information.
Although this criterion reduced the population base, it also reduced nonrelevant variance, making the phenomena under study easier to capture.
As noted earlier, using nonrelevant values to measure organizational processes (e.g., measuring interpersonal congruence using values that are not relevant to interpersonal interactions) may lead to erroneous conclusions about the process.
The principal component analysis also suggests a trade-off between thermotolerance and performance in the absence of stress, despite a matrix that included several nonrelevant traits.
We subscribe to the list in the office, and nothing inappropriate has happened so far." Semer considers unacceptable personal messages, derogatory comments, advertising or self-promotion, obscenity or profanity, nonrelevant topics, and nuisance (test) messages.
Arbitrators are also often thought to exhibit a higher degree of impartiality toward the parties to the dispute and to be less influenced by the rhetoric of the lawyers and other nonrelevant factors.
When nonrelevant stimulation overlaps important information, performance deficits are also observed.
Doctors educate one another with case histories in which patients are identified only by initials and in which other nonrelevant identifying details are changed.
Although the insurance investigator may have fewer restrictions and more advantages than his or her law enforcement counterpart (no need to give Miranda warnings, no need to secure a search warrangs, the obligation of the insured to cooperate with the carrier, the requirement that the insured produce relevant records and documents, and the carrier's opportunity to examine the insured under oath), the insurance investigator must never allow his or her activities to wander into nonroutine and nonrelevant topics (in terms of the carrier's interests) for the sole purpose of aiding the law enforcement investigation.