Compared with journal articles, books can provide broader, deeper and more
comprehensive information, and often have higher expertise and academic depth. However,
most researches on book assessment focus on measuring academic value of books (eg
citations analysis) or identifying attitudes of readers (eg book review mining), depth and
breadth reflected by book contents is neglected. Therefore, in this paper, we measure books'
depth and breadth by mining books' tables of contents, so as to enrich resources and …