Information Retrieval Technology: Third Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, Airs 2006, Singapore, October 16-18, 2006: Proceedings

by Ng, Hwee Tou; Leong, Mun-kew; Kan, Min-yen; Ji, Donghong

• ISBN13: 9783540457800
• ISBN10: 3540457801
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-04
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2006, held in Singapore in October 2006. The 34 revised full papers and 24 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. All current issues in information retrieval are addressed: applications, systems, technologies and theoretical aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multi-media data. The papers are organized in topical sections on text retrieval, search and extraction, text classification and indexing, text clustering, information retrieval models, web information retrieval, cross-language information retrieval, question answering and summarization, natural language processing, evaluation, multimedia information retrieval, as well as a special session on medical image retrieval.

Table of Contents

Query expansion with ConceptNet and WordNet : an intrinsic comparison	p. 1
Document similarity search based on manifold-ranking of TextTiles	p. 14
Adapting document ranking to users' preferences using click-through data	p. 26
A PDD-based searching approach for expert finding in intranet information management	p. 43
A supervised learning approach to entity search	p. 54
Hierarchical learning strategy in relation extraction using support vector machines	p. 67
Learning to separate text content and style for classification	p. 79
Using relative entropy for authorship attribution	p. 92
Efficient query evaluation through access-reordering	p. 106
Natural document clustering by clique percolation in random graphs	p. 119
Text clustering with limited user feedback under local metric learning	p. 132
Toward generic title generation for clustered documents	p. 145
Word sense language model for information retrieval	p. 158
Statistical behavior analysis of smoothing methods for language models of Mandarin data sets	p. 172
No tag, a little nesting, and great XML keyword search	p. 187
Improving re-ranking of search results using collaborative filtering	p. 205
Learning to integrate Web catalogs with conceptual relationships in hierarchical thesaurus	p. 217
Discovering authoritative news sources and top news stories	p. 230
Chinese question-answering : comparing monolingual with English-Chinese cross-lingual results	p. 244
Translation of unknown terms via Web mining for information retrieval	p. 258
A cross-lingual framework for Web news taxonomy integration	p. 270
Learning question focus and semantically related features from Web search results for Chinese question classification	p. 284
Improving the robustness to recognition errors in speech input question answering	p. 297
An adjacency model for sentence ordering in multi-document summarization	p. 313
Poor man's stemming : unsupervised recognition of same-stem words	p. 323
NAYOSE : a system for reference disambiguation of proper nouns appearing on Web pages	p. 338
Efficient and robust phrase chunking using support vector machines	p. 350
Statistical and comparative evaluation of various indexing and search models	p. 362
Bootstrap-based comparisons of IR metrics for finding one relevant document	p. 374
Evaluating topic difficulties from the viewpoint of query term expansion	p. 390
Incorporating prior knowledge into multi-label boosting for cross-modal image annotation and retrieval	p. 404
A venation-based leaf image classification scheme	p. 416
Pic-a-topic : gathering information efficiently from recorded TV shows on travel	p. 429
A music retrieval system based on query-by-singing for Karaoke jukebox	p. 445
A semantic fusion approach between medical images and reports using UMLS	p. 460
Automated object extraction for medical image retrieval using the insight toolkit (ITK)	p. 476
Stripe : image feature based on a new grid method and its application in ImageCLEF	p. 489
An academic information retrieval system based on multiagent framework	p. 497
Comparing Web logs : sensitivity analysis and two types of cross-analysis	p. 508
Concept propagation based on visual similarity	p. 514
Query structuring with two-stage term dependence in the Japanese language	p. 522
Automatic expansion of abbreviations in Chinese news text	p. 530
A novel ant-based clustering approach for document clustering	p. 537
Evaluating scalability in information retrieval with multigraded relevance	p. 545
Text mining for medical documents using a hidden Markov model	p. 553
Multi-document summarization based on unsupervised clustering	p. 560
A content-based 3D graphic information retrieval system	p. 567
Query expansion for contextual question using genetic algorithms	p. 574
Fine-grained named entity recognition using conditional random fields for question answering	p. 581
A hybrid model for sentence ordering in extractive multi-document summarization	p. 588
Automatic query type identification based on click through information	p. 593
Japanese question-answering system for contextual questions using simple connection method, decreased adding with multiple answers, and selection by ratio	p. 601
Multi-document summarization using a clustering-based hybrid strategy	p. 608
A Web user preference perception system based on fuzzy data mining method	p. 615
An analysis on topic features and difficulties based on Web navigational retrieval experiments	p. 625
Towards automatic domain classification of technical terms : estimating domain specificity of a term using the Web	p. 633
Evaluating score normalization methods in data fusion	p. 642
WIDIT : integrated approach to HARD topic search	p. 649
Automatic query expansion using data manifold	p. 659
An empirical comparison of translation disambiguation techniques for Chinese-English cross-language information retrieval	p. 666
Web mining for lexical context-specific paraphrasing	p. 673
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