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A scalable assistant librarian: hierarchical subject classification of books

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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.

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          SIGIR '08: Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
          July 2008
          934 pages
          ISBN:9781605581644
          DOI:10.1145/1390334

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