Ebook: Information Retrieval Technology: 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2009, Sapporo, Japan, October 21-23, 2009. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2009, held in Sapporo, Japan, in October 2009.

The 18 revised full papers and 20 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. All current aspects of information retrieval - in theory and practice - are addressed; working with text, audio, image, video and multimedia data.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2009, held in Sapporo, Japan, in October 2009.

The 18 revised full papers and 20 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. All current aspects of information retrieval - in theory and practice - are addressed; working with text, audio, image, video and multimedia data.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2009, held in Sapporo, Japan, in October 2009.

The 18 revised full papers and 20 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. All current aspects of information retrieval - in theory and practice - are addressed; working with text, audio, image, video and multimedia data.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Fully Automatic Text Categorization by Exploiting WordNet....Pages 1-12
A Latent Dirichlet Framework for Relevance Modeling....Pages 13-25
Assigning Location Information to Display Individuals on a Map for Web People Search Results....Pages 26-37
Web Spam Identification with User Browsing Graph....Pages 38-49
Metric and Relevance Mismatch in Retrieval Evaluation....Pages 50-62
Test Collection-Based IR Evaluation Needs Extension toward Sessions – A Case of Extremely Short Queries....Pages 63-74
Weighted Rank Correlation in Information Retrieval Evaluation....Pages 75-86
Extractive Summarization Based on Event Term Temporal Relation Graph and Critical Chain....Pages 87-99
Using an Information Quality Framework to Evaluate the Quality of Product Reviews....Pages 100-111
Automatic Extraction for Product Feature Words from Comments on the Web....Pages 112-123
Image Sense Classification in Text-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 124-135
A Subword Normalized Cut Approach to Automatic Story Segmentation of Chinese Broadcast News....Pages 136-148
Japanese Spontaneous Spoken Document Retrieval Using NMF-Based Topic Models....Pages 149-156
Finding ‘Lucy in Disguise’: The Misheard Lyric Matching Problem....Pages 157-167
Selecting Effective Terms for Query Formulation....Pages 168-180
Discovering Volatile Events in Your Neighborhood: Local-Area Topic Extraction from Blog Entries....Pages 181-192
A Unified Graph-Based Iterative Reinforcement Approach to Personalized Search....Pages 193-204
Exploiting Sentence-Level Features for Near-Duplicate Document Detection....Pages 205-217
Language Models of Collaborative Filtering....Pages 218-229
Efficient Text Classification Using Term Projection....Pages 230-241
IPHITS: An Incremental Latent Topic Model for Link Structure....Pages 242-253
Supervised Dual-PLSA for Personalized SMS Filtering....Pages 254-264
Enabling Effective User Interactions in Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 265-276
Improving Text Rankers by Term Locality Contexts....Pages 277-288
Mutual Screening Graph Algorithm: A New Bootstrapping Algorithm for Lexical Acquisition....Pages 289-299
Web Image Retrieval for Abstract Queries Using Text and Image Information....Pages 300-309
Question Answering Based on Answer Trustworthiness....Pages 310-317
Domain Specific Opinion Retrieval....Pages 318-329
A Boosting Approach for Learning to Rank Using SVD with Partially Labeled Data....Pages 330-338
Opinion Target Network and Bootstrapping Method for Chinese Opinion Target Extraction....Pages 339-350
Automatic Search Engine Performance Evaluation with the Wisdom of Crowds....Pages 351-362
A Clustering Framework Based on Adaptive Space Mapping and Rescaling....Pages 363-374
Research on Lesk-C-Based WSD and Its Application in English-Chinese Bi-directional CLIR....Pages 375-386
Searching Polyphonic Indonesian Folksongs Based on N-gram Indexing Technique....Pages 387-396
Study on the Click Context of Web Search Users for Reliability Analysis....Pages 397-408
Utilizing Social Relationships for Blog Popularity Mining....Pages 409-419
S-node: A Small-World Navigation System for Exploratory Search....Pages 420-431
Efficient Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis through Parallelization....Pages 432-443
Back Matter....Pages -

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2009, held in Sapporo, Japan, in October 2009.

The 18 revised full papers and 20 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. All current aspects of information retrieval - in theory and practice - are addressed; working with text, audio, image, video and multimedia data.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Fully Automatic Text Categorization by Exploiting WordNet....Pages 1-12
A Latent Dirichlet Framework for Relevance Modeling....Pages 13-25
Assigning Location Information to Display Individuals on a Map for Web People Search Results....Pages 26-37
Web Spam Identification with User Browsing Graph....Pages 38-49
Metric and Relevance Mismatch in Retrieval Evaluation....Pages 50-62
Test Collection-Based IR Evaluation Needs Extension toward Sessions – A Case of Extremely Short Queries....Pages 63-74
Weighted Rank Correlation in Information Retrieval Evaluation....Pages 75-86
Extractive Summarization Based on Event Term Temporal Relation Graph and Critical Chain....Pages 87-99
Using an Information Quality Framework to Evaluate the Quality of Product Reviews....Pages 100-111
Automatic Extraction for Product Feature Words from Comments on the Web....Pages 112-123
Image Sense Classification in Text-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 124-135
A Subword Normalized Cut Approach to Automatic Story Segmentation of Chinese Broadcast News....Pages 136-148
Japanese Spontaneous Spoken Document Retrieval Using NMF-Based Topic Models....Pages 149-156
Finding ‘Lucy in Disguise’: The Misheard Lyric Matching Problem....Pages 157-167
Selecting Effective Terms for Query Formulation....Pages 168-180
Discovering Volatile Events in Your Neighborhood: Local-Area Topic Extraction from Blog Entries....Pages 181-192
A Unified Graph-Based Iterative Reinforcement Approach to Personalized Search....Pages 193-204
Exploiting Sentence-Level Features for Near-Duplicate Document Detection....Pages 205-217
Language Models of Collaborative Filtering....Pages 218-229
Efficient Text Classification Using Term Projection....Pages 230-241
IPHITS: An Incremental Latent Topic Model for Link Structure....Pages 242-253
Supervised Dual-PLSA for Personalized SMS Filtering....Pages 254-264
Enabling Effective User Interactions in Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 265-276
Improving Text Rankers by Term Locality Contexts....Pages 277-288
Mutual Screening Graph Algorithm: A New Bootstrapping Algorithm for Lexical Acquisition....Pages 289-299
Web Image Retrieval for Abstract Queries Using Text and Image Information....Pages 300-309
Question Answering Based on Answer Trustworthiness....Pages 310-317
Domain Specific Opinion Retrieval....Pages 318-329
A Boosting Approach for Learning to Rank Using SVD with Partially Labeled Data....Pages 330-338
Opinion Target Network and Bootstrapping Method for Chinese Opinion Target Extraction....Pages 339-350
Automatic Search Engine Performance Evaluation with the Wisdom of Crowds....Pages 351-362
A Clustering Framework Based on Adaptive Space Mapping and Rescaling....Pages 363-374
Research on Lesk-C-Based WSD and Its Application in English-Chinese Bi-directional CLIR....Pages 375-386
Searching Polyphonic Indonesian Folksongs Based on N-gram Indexing Technique....Pages 387-396
Study on the Click Context of Web Search Users for Reliability Analysis....Pages 397-408
Utilizing Social Relationships for Blog Popularity Mining....Pages 409-419
S-node: A Small-World Navigation System for Exploratory Search....Pages 420-431
Efficient Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis through Parallelization....Pages 432-443
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