Appeal Factors and the Organization and Retrieval of Fictional Works

Appeal factors are the textual characteristics that may induce reading pleasures or the cognitive and affective effects a reader may experience from pleasure reading. Appeal factors are now used as access points in some information retrieval systems for fictional works in the English speaking world....

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Main Author: Chi-Shiou Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Chengchi University Libraries 2019-12-01
Series:Tūzī yǔ dàng’àn xuékān
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Online Access:https://jila.lib.nccu.edu.tw/2019volume-11/112-no-95-dec-2019/4257/
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Summary:Appeal factors are the textual characteristics that may induce reading pleasures or the cognitive and affective effects a reader may experience from pleasure reading. Appeal factors are now used as access points in some information retrieval systems for fictional works in the English speaking world. This paper describes the organization and retrieval problems of fiction, which triggered the emergence of appeal-based indexing. It continues to discuss on the nature of reading appeals and the typology of appeal factors, including book-related and reader-driven appeals. It follows to describe four information systems where appeal factors are used as a search mechanism to filter and discover fiction titles that meet the readers' expectations. It goes on to theorize the relationships between appeal factors and literary genres and ends with a discussion on the challenges of appeal-based indexing, including the selection and construction of appeal terms as well as the indexing consistency issues.
ISSN:2412-1800