Information Retrieval Technology: Second Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2005, Jeju Island, Korea, October 13-15, 2005, Proceedings / Edition 1

Table of Contents

Session 1A: Relevance/Retrieval Models.- The Reliability of Metrics Based on Graded Relevance.- Improving Weak Ad-Hoc Retrieval by Web Assistance and Data Fusion.- Query Expansion with the Minimum Relevance Judgments.- Improved Concurrency Control Technique with Lock-Free Querying for Multi-dimensional Index Structure.- Session 1B: Multimedia IR.- A Color-Based Image Retrieval Method Using Color Distribution and Common Bitmap.- A Probabilistic Model for Music Recommendation Considering Audio Features.- VisMed: A Visual Vocabulary Approach for Medical Image Indexing and Retrieval.- Object Identification and Retrieval from Efficient Image Matching: Snap2Tell with the STOIC Dataset.- Session 2A: Natural Language Processing in IR.- Extracting the Significant Terms from a Sentence-Term Matrix by Removal of the Noise in Term Usage.- Cross Document Event Clustering Using Knowledge Mining from Co-reference Chains.- Filtering Contents with Bigrams and Named Entities to Improve Text Classification.- The Spatial Indexing Method for Supporting a Circular Location Property of Object.- Supervised Categorization of JavaScriptTM Using Program Analysis Features.- Effective and Scalable Authorship Attribution Using Function Words.- Session 3A: Web IR.- Learning to Integrate Web Taxonomies with Fine-Grained Relations: A Case Study Using Maximum Entropy Model.- WIDIT: Fusion-Based Approach to Web Search Optimization.- Transactional Query Identification in Web Search.- Session 3B: Question Answering.- Improving FAQ Retrieval Using Query Log Clustering in Latent Semantic Space.- Phrase-Based Definitional Question Answering Using Definition Terminology.- Enhanced Question Answering with Combination of Pre-acquired Answers.- Session 4A: Document/Query Models.- An Empirical Study of Query Expansion and Cluster-Based Retrieval in Language Modeling Approach.- Effective Query Model Estimation Using Parsimonious Translation Model in Language Modeling Approach.- Chinese Document Re-ranking Based on Term Distribution and Maximal Marginal Relevance.- On Effectiveness Measures and Relevance Functions in Ranking INEX Systems.- Session 4B: Special Session: Digital PhotoAlbum.- Home Photo Categorization Based on Photographic Region Templates.- MPEG-7 Visual-Temporal Clustering for Digital Image Collections.- A Structured Learning Approach to Semantic Photo Indexing and Query.- Image Retrieval Using Sub-image Matching in Photos Using MPEG-7 Descriptors.- Session 5A: TDT/Clustering.- An Incremental Document Clustering for the Large Document Database.- Subsite Retrieval: A Novel Concept for Topic Distillation.- A Rough Set-Based Fuzzy Clustering.- Effective Use of Place Information for Event Tracking.- Session 5B: Multimedia/Classification.- A Classifier Design Based on Combining Multiple Components by Maximum Entropy Principle.- A Query-by-Singing Technique for Retrieving Polyphonic Objects of Popular Music.- Integrating Textual and Visual Information for Cross-Language Image Retrieval.- Practical Application of Associative Classifier for Document Classification.- Poster and Demo Session 1.- A Method for Query Expansion Using a Hierarchy of Clusters.- Chinese Question Classification from Approach and Semantic Views.- GJM-2: A Special Case of General Jelinek-Mercer Smoothing Method for Language Modeling Approach to Ad Hoc IR.- The Empirical Impact of the Nature of Novelty Detection.- Song Wave Retrieval Based on Frame-Wise Phoneme Recognition.- trackThem: Exploring a Large-Scale News Video Archive by Tracking Human Relations.- Topic-Independent Web High-Quality Page Selection Based on K-Means Clustering.- Improving Text Similarity Measurement by Critical Sentence Vector Model.- Audio Fingerprinting Scheme by Temporal Filtering for Audio Identification Immune to Channel-Distortion.- On the Chinese Document Clustering Based on Dynamical Term Clustering.- Integrating Heterogeneous Multimedia Resources.- Calculating Webpage Importance with Site Structure Constraints.- Gene Ontology Classification of Biomedical Literatures Using Context Association.- An Examination of Feature Selection Frameworks in Text Categorization.- Query Transitive Translation Using IR Score for Indonesian-Japanese CLIR.- Development of a Meta Product Search Engine with Web Services.- An Automatic Code Classification System by Using Memory-Based Learning and Information Retrieval Technique.- Finding New News: Novelty Detection in Broadcast News.- Named Entity Tagging for Korean Using DL-CoTrain Algorithm.- Semantic Categorization of Contextual Features Based on Wordnet for G-to-P Conversion of Arabic Numerals Combined with Homographic Classifiers.- Poster and Demo Session 2.- Robust Matching Method for Scale and Rotation Invariant Local Descriptors and Its Application to Image Indexing.- Image Feedback Retrieval Based on Vector Space Model Transformation.- Indexing Structures for Content-Based Retrieval of Large Image Databases: A Review.- Document Similarity Search Based on Generic Summaries.- KNM: A Novel Intelligent User Interface for Webpage Navigation.- Towards Construction of Evaluation Framework for Query Expansion.- An Efficient Incremental Nearest Neighbor Algorithm for Processing k-Nearest Neighbor Queries with Visal and Semantic Predicates in Multimedia Information Retrieval System.- Generating Term Transliterations Using Contextual Information and Validating Generated Results Using Web Corpora.- Handling Orthographic Varieties in Japanese IR: Fusion of Word-, N-Gram-, and Yomi-Based Indices Across Different Document Collections.- A Term Weighting Approach for Text Categorization.- A LF Based Answer Indexing Method for Encyclopedia Question-Answering System.- Approximate Phrase Match to Compile Synonymous Translation Terms for Korean Medical Indexing.- Protein Function Classification Based on Gene Ontology.- Extracting and Utilizing of IS-A Relation Patterns for Question Answering Systems.- An Iterative Approach for Web Catalog Integration with Support Vector Machines.- Fuzzy Post-clustering Algorithm for Web Search Engine.- A Relational Nested Interval Encoding Scheme for XML Storage and Retrieval.- The Design of Webservices Framework Support Ontology Based Dynamic Service Composition.- Privacy Preserving Decision Tree in Multi Party Environment.

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