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Yizkor books: a voice for the silent past

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CIKM '08: Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management

Pages 1337 - 1338

https://doi.org/10.1145/1458082.1458266

Published: 26 October 2008 Publication History

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Yizkor Book collections contain firsthand commemorative accounts of events from the era surrounding the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, including documents from before, during, and after the Holocaust. Prior to our effort, information regarding the content and location of each Yizkor Book volume was limited. We established a centralized index and metadata repository for the Yizkor Book collection and developed a detailed search interface accessible worldwide.

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M. Amir. From Memorials to Invaluable Historical Documentation: Using Yizkor Books as Resource for Studying A Vanished World. Annual Convention of the Association of Jewish Libraries, volume 36, 2001.

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CIKM '08: Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management

October 2008

1562 pages

ISBN:9781595939913

DOI:10.1145/1458082

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James G. Shanahan
Church and Duncan Group Inc, USA
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Yahoo! Research, USA
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INRIA, France
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Yi Zhang
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
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David A. Evans
JustSystems Evans Research, USA
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Alek Kolcz
Microsoft Live Labs, USA
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Key-Sun Choi
KAIST, Korea
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Abdur Chowdury
Twitter, USA

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https://doi.org/10.1109/DAS.2016.28
Soo JSchwabe DAlmeida VGlaser HBaeza-Yates RMoon S(2013)A non-learning approach to spelling correction in web queriesProceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web10.1145/2487788.2487834(101-102)Online publication date: 13-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2487788.2487834
Soo JFrieder O(2010)On foreign name searchProceedings of the 32nd European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_42(483-494)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_42
Cathey RSoo JFrieder OAmir MFrieder G(2009)Worldwide accessibility to Yizkor booksProceedings of the 7th international conference on Next generation information technologies and systems10.5555/1813323.1813328(3-12)Online publication date: 16-Jun-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1813323.1813328
Cathey RSoo JFrieder OAmir MFrieder G(2009)Worldwide Accessibility to Yizkor BooksNext Generation Information Technologies and Systems10.1007/978-3-642-04941-5_3(3-12)Online publication date: 2009
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