Combining the language model and inference network approaches to retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Bayesian networks and information retrieval
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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.