Preliminary study of technical terminology for the retrieval of scientific book metadata records

TY - CHAP

T1 - Preliminary study of technical terminology for the retrieval of scientific book metadata records

AU - Larsen, Birger

AU - Lioma, Christina

AU - Frommholz, Ingo

AU - Schütze, Hinrich

N1 - Conference code: 35

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - Books only represented by brief metadata (book records) are particularly hard to retrieve. One way of improving their retrieval is by extracting retrieval enhancing features from them. This work focusses on scientific (physics) book records. We ask if their technical terminology can be used as a retrieval enhancing feature. A study of 18,443 book records shows a strong correlation between their technical terminology and their likelihood of relevance. Using this finding for retrieval yields >+5% precision and recall gains.

AB - Books only represented by brief metadata (book records) are particularly hard to retrieve. One way of improving their retrieval is by extracting retrieval enhancing features from them. This work focusses on scientific (physics) book records. We ask if their technical terminology can be used as a retrieval enhancing feature. A study of 18,443 book records shows a strong correlation between their technical terminology and their likelihood of relevance. Using this finding for retrieval yields >+5% precision and recall gains.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84866613758&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/2348283.2348504

DO - 10.1145/2348283.2348504

M3 - Book chapter

AN - SCOPUS:84866613758

SN - 978-1-4503-1472-5

SP - 1131

EP - 1132

BT - Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

T2 - 35th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Y2 - 12 August 2012 through 16 August 2012

ER -