Estimating content concreteness for finding comprehensible documents

WSDM 2013 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 475-484

  Tanaka, Shinya ^a   Jatowt, Adam ^a,b   Kato, Makoto P ^a   Tanaka, Katsumi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

abstractness; comprehensibility; concreteness; information retrieval; readability

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTNESS; COMPREHENSIBILITY; CONCEPT VISUALIZATIONS; CONCRETENESS; DOCUMENT QUALITY; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; READABILITY; SENTENCE LENGTH; USER'S SATISFACTION; WORD LENGTH;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

CONCRETES;

EID: 84874254416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2433396.2433455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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