Social Book Search Track: ISM@CLEF'16 Suggestion Task

This paper describes the work that we did at Indian School of Mines towards Social Book Search Track for CLEF 2016. As per requirement of CLEF-2016 we submitted six runs in its Suggestion Task. We investigated individual effect of title, group, request, as well as combined effect of title, request and group fields of the topics in our runs. For all the runs we used language modeling technique with Dirichlet smoothing. The run using combined effect of title, request and group field was our best. Overall, our performance is good but it needs some improvement, our scores are encouraging enough to work for better results in future.