Rank by readability: Document weighting for information retrieval

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

Volumn 6107 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 20-30

  Newbold, Neil ^a   McLaughlin, Harry ^a   Gillam, Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Content based filtering; Evaluation methods and metrics; NLP for IR; Web IR

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE FACTORS; CONTENT BASED FILTERING; EVALUATION METHOD; NEW APPROACHES; QUERY RESULTS; RE-RANKING; READING LEVEL; WEB PAGE; WRITTEN TEXTS;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77954440301     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13084-7_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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