Experiments for the design of a help desk system for the EHRI project – an Information Retrieval approach

Abstract

This paper describes the experiments realized for the conception of a helpdesk system for the EHRI project. The system will help researchers to find Collection Holding Institutions (CHI) suitable to support them to resolve questions about Holocaust relevant documentary sources. In this experiments we model descriptions of archival material in a vector space model, and we show that this model is able to give an answer to real user queries.