Domain-specific iterative readability computation

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 205-214

  Zhao, Jin ^a   Kan, Min Yen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Domain specific information retrieval; Graph based algorithm; Iterative computation; Readability measure

Indexed keywords

BIPARTITE GRAPHS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC INFORMATION; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; GRAPH-BASED; GRAPH-BASED ALGORITHM; HYPERLINKS; ITERATIVE COMPUTATION; LEARNING APPROACH; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; GRAPH THEORY; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 77955107415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1816123.1816155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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