Preliminary study of technical terminology for the retrieval of scientific book metadata records

Birger Larsen, Christina Lioma, Ingo Frommholz, Hinrich Schütze

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Abstract

Books only represented by brief metadata (book records) are particularly hard to retrieve. One way of improving their retrieval is by extracting retrieval enhancing features from them. This work focusses on scientific (physics) book records. We ask if their technical terminology can be used as a retrieval enhancing feature. A study of 18,443 book records shows a strong correlation between their technical terminology and their likelihood of relevance. Using this finding for retrieval yields >+5% precision and recall gains.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Number of pages2
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publication date2012
Pages1131-1132
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-1472-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event35th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - Portland, United States
Duration: 12 Aug 201216 Aug 2012
Conference number: 35

Conference

Conference35th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Number35
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPortland
Period12/08/201216/08/2012

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