Michael Huggett
ABSTRACT
The back-of-book indexes for test collections of digital books in the domains of Economics and Geology have been deconstructed and analyzed, and the entries aggregated to create domain-level meta-indexes. Metrics comparing the two domains are presented.
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Index Terms
- Creating meta-indexes for digital domains
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