The influence of pre-processing on the estimation of readability of web documents

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn 19-23-Oct-2015, Issue , 2015, Pages 1763-1766

  Palotti, João ^a   Zuccon, Guido ^b   Hanbury, Allan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Readability; Text pre processing

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

LEVEL CHARACTERISTIC; PERSONALISATION; PRE-PROCESSING; READABILITY; READING ABILITIES; WEB DOCUMENT; WEB SEARCH RESULTS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84959263824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2806416.2806613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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