Book search experiments: Investigating IR methods for the indexing and retrieval of books

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4956 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 234-245

  Wu, Hengzhi ^a   Kazai, Gabriella ^b   Taylor, Michael ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BM25F; Book search; Effectiveness; Efficiency; Multi field indexing

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING;

BOOK SEARCH; DIGITIZED BOOKS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 41849107190     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78646-7_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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