Locating thematic pinpoints in narrative texts with short phrases: a test study on Don Quixote Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:1433647, abstract = {Traditional implementations provide only limited assistance for locating the information in narrative texts relevant to a certain point of interest. We are investigating providing a "reading wheel" for such purposes. The first step of the bigger picture, as inspired by the editorial compilation of a textbook's index, is an attempt to locate thematically coherent sentences to a given short phrase. In this paper, we propose a two-step methodology to increase the search performance and examine its effectiveness in a test study. We describe the experimental setup and report on the quantitative evaluation of the techniques involved.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Deng, Jie and Furuta, Richard and Urbina, Eduardo}, booktitle = {JCDL '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Digital libraries}, citeulike-article-id = {1433647}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1255256}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1255175.1255256}, doi = {10.1145/1255175.1255256}, isbn = {9781595936448}, keywords = {cervantes-digital-library, digital-humanities, digital-libraries--historical}, pages = {402--410}, posted-at = {2007-07-04 18:40:08}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Locating thematic pinpoints in narrative texts with short phrases: a test study on Don Quixote}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1255175.1255256}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1433647 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1433647 N2 - Traditional implementations provide only limited assistance for locating the information in narrative texts relevant to a certain point of interest. We are investigating providing a "reading wheel" for such purposes. The first step of the bigger picture, as inspired by the editorial compilation of a textbook's index, is an attempt to locate thematically coherent sentences to a given short phrase. In this paper, we propose a two-step methodology to increase the search performance and examine its effectiveness in a test study. We describe the experimental setup and report on the quantitative evaluation of the techniques involved. SN - 9781595936448 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 410 TI - Locating thematic pinpoints in narrative texts with short phrases: a test study on Don Quixote PB - ACM Press T2 - JCDL '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Digital libraries SP - 402 KW - cervantes-digital-library KW - digital-humanities KW - digital-libraries--historical AU - Deng, Jie AU - Furuta, Richard AU - Urbina, Eduardo PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1255175.1255256 ER -