Information Retrieval Technology

Semantic Relation Extraction Based on Semi-supervised Learning.- Corpus-Based Arabic Stemming Using N-Grams.- Analysis and Algorithms for Stemming Inversion.- Top-Down and Bottom-Up: A Combined Approach to Slot Filling.- Relation Extraction between Related Concepts by Combining Wikipedia and Web Information for Japanese Language.- A Chinese Sentence Compression Method for Opinion Mining.- Relation Extraction in Vietnamese Text Using Conditional Random Fields.- A Sparse L 2-Regularized Support Vector Machines for Large-Scale Natural Language Learning.- An Empirical Comparative Study of Manual Rule-Based and Statistical Question Classifiers on Heterogeneous Unseen Data.- Constructing Blog Entry Classifiers Using Blog-Level Topic Labels.- Finding Hard Questions by Knowledge Gap Analysis in Question Answer Communities.- Exploring the Visual Annotatability of Query Concepts for Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval.- A Diary Study-Based Evaluation Framework for Mobile Information Retrieval.- Dynamics of Genre and Domain Intents.- Query Recommendation Considering Search Performance of Related Queries.- Session 4: NLP for IR - I.- A Local Generative Model for Chinese Word Segmentation.- Re-ranking Summaries Based on Cross-Document Information Extraction.- A Two-Stage Algorithm for Domain Adaptation with Application to Sentiment Transfer Problems.- Domain-Specific Term Rankings Using Topic Models.- Learning Chinese Polarity Lexicons by Integration of Graph Models and Morphological Features.- Session 5: Machine Learning for IR - II.- Learning to Rank with Supplementary Data.- Event Recognition from News Webpages through Latent Ingredients Extraction.- Tuning Machine-Learning Algorithms for Battery-Operated Portable Devices.- Session 6: IR Models - II.- A Unified Iterative Optimization Algorithm for Query Model and Ranking Refinement.- A Study of Document Weight Smoothness in Pseudo Relevance Feedback.- Modeling Variable Dependencies between Characters in Chinese Information Retrieval.- Session 7: Web and QA.- Mining Parallel Documents across Web Sites.- A Revised SimRank Approach for Query Expansion.- Improving Web-Based OOV Translation Mining for Query Translation.- On a Combination of Probabilistic and Boolean IR Models for Question Answering.- Session 8: Multimedia.- Emotion Tag Based Music Retrieval Algorithm.- An Aesthetic-Based Approach to Re-ranking Web Images.