A scalable assistant librarian: hierarchical subject classification of books Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3112656, abstract = {In this paper, we discuss our work in progress towards a scalable hierarchical classification system for books using the Library of Congress subject hierarchy. We examine the characteristics of this domain which make the problem very challenging, and we look at several appropriate performance measurements. We show that both Hieron and Hierarchical Support Vector Machines perform moderately well.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Crain, Steven P. and Huang, Jian and Zha, Hongyuan}, booktitle = {SIGIR '08: Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval}, citeulike-article-id = {3112656}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1390334.1390510}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1390334.1390510}, doi = {10.1145/1390334.1390510}, isbn = {978-1-60558-164-4}, keywords = {books, classification--automatic, e-books, lcc, lcsh, open-content-alliance}, location = {Singapore, Singapore}, pages = {799--800}, posted-at = {2008-08-12 20:26:39}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A scalable assistant librarian: hierarchical subject classification of books}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1390334.1390510}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3112656 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3112656 N2 - In this paper, we discuss our work in progress towards a scalable hierarchical classification system for books using the Library of Congress subject hierarchy. We examine the characteristics of this domain which make the problem very challenging, and we look at several appropriate performance measurements. We show that both Hieron and Hierarchical Support Vector Machines perform moderately well. CY - Singapore, Singapore SN - 978-1-60558-164-4 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 800 TI - A scalable assistant librarian: hierarchical subject classification of books PB - ACM T2 - SIGIR '08: Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval SP - 799 KW - books KW - classification--automatic KW - e-books KW - lcc KW - lcsh KW - open-content-alliance AU - Crain, Steven AU - Huang, Jian AU - Zha, Hongyuan PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1390334.1390510 ER -