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This paper describes the RMIT group’s participation in the book retrieval task of the INEX booktrack in 2008. Our results suggest that for book retrieval task, using a page-based index and ranking books based on the number of pages retrieved may be more effective than directly indexing and ranking whole books.
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Wu, M., Scholer, F., Thom, J.A. (2009). The Impact of Query Length and Document Length on Book Search Effectiveness. In: Geva, S., Kamps, J., Trotman, A. (eds) Advances in Focused Retrieval. INEX 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03761-0_18
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