Workshop Meeting Program

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DAY-1
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
National Center of Sciences (NCS)

9:00-9:30	Registration
9:30-12:00	Pre-meeting Lecture: Introduction to NTCIR (Tutorial on IR, Summarization, QA evaluation) Japanese/English
12:00-13:30	Lunch Break / Registration
13:30	Meeting Start
13:30-13:45	Welcome Jun Adachi （National Institute of Informatics）
13:45-14:45	Overview of the NTCIR Workshop 3 Noriko Kando （National Institute of Informatics）
14:45-15:45	Invited Talk 1 - Donna Harman,NIST "QA at TREC and Summarization at DUC"
15:45-16:15	Coffee
16:15-17:15	Invited Talk 2 - Amit Singhaｌ, Google "Web IR Research: Can we do it without the data? "
17:15-	Wrap Up

DAY-2
Wednesday, October 9, 2002

9:00-9:30	Registration / Light Refreshment
9:30-11:00	Session I: Web [Semi-Open]
11:00-11:20	Coffee
11:20-12:50	Session II: Patent [Semi-Open]
12:50-14:00	Lunch
14:00-16:00	Session III: CLIR [Semi-Open]
16:00-20:00	Digital Poster I : including Coffee
18:00-	Buffet Dinner will be served from 18:00

DAY-3
Thursday, October 10, 2002

9:00-9:30	Registration / Light Refreshment
9:30-11:00	Session IV : QAC [NTCIR-Closed]
11:00-14:00	Digital Poster II : including Coffee
12:30-	Lunch will be served from 12:30
14:00-15:30	Session V : TSC2 [Semi-Open]
15:30-16:30	Wrap Up

* DAY-1: Open forum, Anyone are welcome.
* DAY-2&3: Semi-Open: Participation will be restricted to
a) the activeparticipants (task participants),
b) special participants (whose applicationto attend the meeting are approved by the program committee,
For the detail,pls see the CFP), and
c) invited participants. Session for QAC are restricted to a) the active particpants and c) invited participants only.

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DAY-1
Tuesday, October 8, 2002 <National Center of Sciences (NCS)>

9:00-9:30	Registration <Entrance Lobby>
9:30-12:00	Pre-meeting Lecture : Introduction to NTCIR (Tutorial on IR, Summarization, QA evaluation) <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall / Mid-conference Hall 1.2>
	In Japanese 9:30-9:40 "Introduction to NTCIR: Its Background and Purposes." Noriko Kando （National Institute of Informatics） 9:40-10:40 Methodology and Pragmatics of Retrieval Experiment at NTCIR Workshop " [PDF] Kazuaki Kishida (Surugadai University / National Institute of Informatics), Makoto Iwayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hitachi, Ltd.) and Koji Eguchi (National Institute of Informatics) 10:40-11:20 "Question Answerig Challenge -Open-domain question answering evaluation workshop-" Tsuneaki Kato (University of Tokyo), Junichi Fukumoto (Ritsumeikan University) and Fumito Masui (Mie University) 11:20-12:00 "Text Summarization Challenge -Text summarization evaluation in Japan-" Takahiro Fukusima (Otemon Gakuin University)	In English 10:00-10:45 " Introduction to NTCIR Workshop" Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics) 10:45-11:15 "The Chinese IR Test Collection" Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University) 11:15-11:45 "Characteristics of the Korean Test Collection for CLIR in NTCIR-3" Sukhoon Lee (Chungnam National University) 11:45-12:00 Discussion
12:00-13:30	Lunch Break / Registration
13:30	Meeting Start
13:30-13:45	Welcome Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics) <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall>
13:45-14:45	Overview of the NTCIR Workshop 3 Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics) <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall>
14:45-15:45	Invited Talk 1 <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall> "QA at TREC and Summarization at DUC" Donna Harman,NIST
15:45-16:15	Coffee
16:15-17:15	Invited Talk 2 <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall> "Web IR Research: Can we do it without the data? " Amit Singhaｌ, Google
17:15-	Wrap Up

*DAY-1: Open forum, Anyone are welcome.

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DAY-2
Wednesday, October 9, 2002 <National Center of Sciences (NCS)>

9:00-9:30	Registration / Light Refreshment
9:30-11:00	Session I: Web (Semi-Open) <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall> Chair: Keizo Oyama (National Institute of Informatics) 09:30-09:50 "Overview of Web Retrieval Task at the Third NTCIR Workshop " K. Eguchi, K. Oyama, E. Ishida, N. Kando (National Institute of Informatics), and K. Kuriyama (Shirayuri college) 09:50-10:10 "Evaluation of Web Retrieval Methods Using Anchor Text" Kenji TATEISHI , Hideki KAWAI, Susumu AKAMINE, Katsushi MATSUDA and Toshikazu FUKUSHIMA 10:10-10:30 "University of Tokyo/RICOH at NTCIR-3 Web Retrieval Task" Masashi TOYODA and Masaru KITSUREGAWA, Hiroko MANO, Hideo ITOH and Yasushi OGAWA 10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:20	Coffee
11:20-12:50	Session II: Patent (Semi-open) <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall> Chair:Atsushi Fujii (University of Library and Information Science) 11:20-11:40 "Overview of Patent Retrieval Task at NTCIR-3" Makoto Iwayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hitachi Ltd), Atsushi Fujii (University of Library and Information Science / Japan Science and Technology Corporation), Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics) and Akihiko Takano (National Institute of Informatics) 11:40-12:00 "Term Distillation for Cross-DB Retrieval" Hideo ITOH, Hiroko MANO and Yasushi OGAWA (RICOH Co., Ltd.) 12:00-12:20 "English-Japanese Cross-lingual Query Expansion Using Random Indexing of Aligned Bilingual Text Data" Magnus Sahlgren, Preben Hansen and Jussi Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SICS) 12:20-12:40 "Experiments on Cross-language and Patent Retrieval at NTCIR-3 Workshop" Aitao Chen, Fredric C. Gey (University of California at Berkeley 12:40-12:50 Discussion
12:50-13:50	Lunch
13:50-16:00	Session III: CLIR (Semi-open) <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall> Chair: Sung Hyon Myaeng (Chungnam National University) 13:50-14:10 "Overview of CLIR Task at the Tird NTCIR Workshop" Kuang-Hua Chen (National Taiwan University) and　Sukhoon Lee (Chungnam National University) 14:10-14:25 "Thomson Legal and Regulatory at NTCIR-3: Japanese, Chinese and English Retrieval Experiments" Isabelle Moulinier, Hugo Molina-Salgado and Peter Jackson　(Thomson Legal and Regulatory Research and Development Group) 14:25-14:40 "POSNIR: Probabilistic Natural Language Information Retrieval System" Changki Lee, Seungwoo Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH) 14:40-14:55 "Toshiba KIDS at NTCIR-3: Japanese and English-Japanese IR" Tetsuya Sakai, Makoto Koyama, Masaru Suzuki and Toshihiko Manabe　(Toshiba Corporate R&D Center) 14:55-15:10 "NTCIR-3 CLIR Experiments at MSRA" Hongzhao He (Tianjin University) and Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research) 15:10-15:25 "ISCAS at NTCIR3" Junlin Zhang, Le Sun, Weimin Qu, Lin Du, Yufang Sun, Yangxing Fan and Zhigen Lin (Chinese Academy of Sciences) 15:25-15:40 "NTU at NTCIR3 MLIR Task" Wen-Cheng Lin and Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University) 15:40-16:00 Discussion
16:00-20:00	Digital Poster I : including Coffee <Mid-conference Hall 1.2> Web "University of Tokyo/RICOH at NTCIR-3 Web Retrieval Task" Masashi TOYODA and Masaru KITSUREGAWA, Hiroko MANO, Hideo ITOH and Yasushi OGAWA "Study of Merging with Multiple Results of Information Retrieval System" Hiromi itoh OZAKU, Masao UTIYAMA, Hitoshi ISAHARA, Yasuyuki KONO, Masatsugu KIDODE "Web Search Experiments Using OASIS" Vitaliy Kluev "NTCIR-3 WEB Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University -- Towards Index Patitioning and Parallel Retrieval --" Takashi SATO, Yukikazu KYO, Kihen KOBATA "Evaluating Speech-Driven IR in the NTCIR-3 Web Retrieval Task" Atsushi Fujii and Katunobu Itou PATENT "Term Distillation for Cross-DB Retrieval" Hideo ITOH, Hiroko MANO and Yasushi OGAWA "Experiment on Pseudo Relevance Feedback Method Using Taylor Formula at NTCIR-3 Patent Retrieval Task" Kazuaki KISHIDA "NTCIR-3 PAT Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University -Long Gram-based Index and Essential Words-" Takashi SATO, Tomohiko SATOMOTO and Koto HAN "NTT DTEC at Patent Retrieval Task" Yohichi Nakatani, Koutarou Takada, Michihiro Isoda, Manabu Okumura, Makoto Iwayama, Yuzo Marukawa and Akihiro Shinmori "Patent Search: A Case Study of Cross-DB Associative Search" Yoshiki Niwa, Toru Hisamitsu, Shingo Nishioka, Osamu Imaichi and Masakazu Fujio "NTCIR-3 Patent Retrieval Experiments at ULIS " Atsushi Fujii and Tetsuya Ishikawa "Experiments on Cross-language and Patent Retrieval at NTCIR-3 Workshop" Aitao Chen and Fredric C. Gey "English-Japanese Cross-lingual Query Expansion Using Random Indexing of Aligned Bilingual Text Data" Magnus Sahlgren, Preben Hansen and Jussi Karlgren "Using the Diff Command in Patent Documents" Masaki Murata and Hitoshi Isahara "Rhetorical Structure Analysis of Japanese Patent Claims using Cue Phrases" Akihiro SHINMORI, Manabu OKUMURA, Yuzo MARUKAWA and Makoto IWAYAMA CLIR "NTCIR-3 Chinese, Cross Language Retrieval Experiments Using PIRCS" K.L.Kwok "Toshiba KIDS at NTCIR-3: Japanese and English-Japanese IR" Tetsuya Sakai, Makoto Koyama, Masaru Suzuki and Toshihiko Manabe "Thomson Legal and Regulatory at NTCIR-3: Japanese, Chinese and English Retrieval Experiments" Isabelle Moulinier, Hugo Molina-Salgado and Peter Jackson "Asian Language Parsing Evaluated by Hummingbird SearchServer at NTCIR-3" Stephen Tomlinson "KUNLP System for NTCIR-3 English-Korean Cross-Language Information Retrieval" Hee-Cheol Seo, Sang-Bum Kim, Baeg-Il Kim, Hae-Chang Rim and Sang-Zoo Lee "Deciding Indexing Strings with Statistical Analysis" Yoshiyuki Takeda, Kyoji Umemura and Eiko Yamamoto "Applying Multiple Characteristics and Techniques to Obtain High Levels of Performance in Information Retrieval" Masaki Murata, Qing Ma, and Hitoshi Isahara "Different Retrieval Models and Hybrid Term Indexing" Robert W.P. Luk, K.F. Wong and K.L. Kwok "NTU at NTCIR3 MLIR Task" Wen-Cheng Lin and Hsin-Hsi Chen "NTCIR-3 CLIR Experiments at MSRA" Hongzhao He and Jianfeng Gao "CMU in Cross-Language Information Retrieval at NTCIR-3" Yiming Yang and Nianli Ma "ISCAS at NTCIR3" Junlin Zhang, Le Sun, Weimin Qu, Lin Du, Yufang Sun, Yangxing Fan and Zhigen Lin "NTCIR-3 Cross-Language IR Experiments at ULIS" Atsushi Fujii and Tetsuya Ishikawa "Chinese Language IR based on Term Extraction" Ji Donghong, Yang Lingpeng and Nie Yu "Uniform Indexing and Retrieval Scheme for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean" Da-Wei Juang and Yuen-Hsien Tseng "Knowledge-light Asian Language Text Retrieval at the NTCIR-3 Workshop" Paul McNamee "NTCIR-3 CLIR Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University : Comparison of Gram-based Indices" Takashi Sato and Koto Han "OASIS at NTCIR-3: Monolingual IR Task" Vitaliy Kluev "Waterloo at NTCIR-3: Using Self-supervised Word Segmentation" Xiangji Huang, Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans and Nick Cercone "POSNIR: Probabilistic Natural Language Information Retrieval System" Changki Lee, Seungwoo Lee and Gary Geunbae Lee "Experiments on Cross-language and Patent Retrieval at NTCIR-3 Workshop" Aitao Chen and Fredric C. Gey "Simple Query Translation Methods for Korean-English and Korean-Chinese CLIR in NTCIR Experiments" Myung Gil Jang, Pyung Kim, Yun Jin, Suk-Hyun Cho and Sung Hyon Myaeng
18:00-	Buffet Dinner will be served from 18:00

* DAY-2&3: Semi-Open: Participation will be restricted to
a) the activeparticipants (task participants),
b) special participants (whose applicationto attend the meeting are approved by the program committee,
For the detail,pls see the CFP), and
c) invited participants. Session for QAC are restricted to a) the active particpants and c) invited participants only.

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DAY-3
Thursday, October 10, 2002 <National Center of Sciences (NCS)>

9:00-9:30	Registration / Light Refreshment
9:30-11:00	Session IV: QAC (NTCIR-Closed) <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall> Chair: Tsuneaki Kato (University of Tokyo) 9:30-10:00 "Question Ansswering Challenge (QAC-1) Question answering evaluation at NTCIR Workshop 3" Jun'ichi FUKUMOTO, Tsuneaki KATO and Fumito MASUI 10:00-10:20 "SiteQ/J: A Question Answering System for Japanese" Seungwoo Lee, Gray Geunbae Lee 10:20-10:40 "A Question-Answering System Using Unit Estimation and Probabilistic Near-Terms IR" Masaki MURATA, Masao UTIYAMA, Hitoshi ISAHARA 10:40-11:00 "NTT's QA System for NTCIR QAC-1" Yutaka SASAKI, Hideki ISOZAKI, Tsutomu HIRAO, Koji KOKURYOU, Eisaku MAEDA
11:00-14:00	Digital Poster II :including Coffee <Mid-conference Hall 1.2> QAC " Towards Speech-Driven Question Answering: Experiments Using the NTCIR-3 Question Answering Collection" Tomoyosi Akiba, Katunobu Itou, Atsushi Fujii and Tetsuya Ishikawa "Oki QA System for QAC-1" Atsushi IKENO and Hiroyuki OHNUMA "Question and Answering System based on Predicate-Argument Matching" Daisuke Kawahara, Nobuhiro Kaji and Sadao Kurohashi "QUARK: A question and answering system using newspaper corpus as a knowledge source" Keizo KAWATA, Hiroyuki SAKAI and Shigeru MASUYAMA "SiteQ/J: A Question Answering System for Japanese" Seungwoo Lee and Gray Geunbae Lee "A Search Algorithm for Question Answering" Tatsunori MORI, Tomohiro OHTA, Katsuyuki FUJIHATA and Ryutaro KUMON "A Question-Answering System Using Unit Estimation and Probabilistic Near-Terms IR" Masaki Murata, Masao Utiyama and Hitoshi Isahara "NTCIR-3 QAC Experiments at Matsushita" Masako NOMOTO, Mitsuhiro SATO and Hiroyuki SUZUKI "NTT's QA System for NTCIR QAC-1" Yutaka Sasaki, Hideki Isozaki, Tsutomu Hirao, Koji Kokuryou and Eisaku Maeda "Answer Extraction System by Question Type from Query-Biased Summary for Newspaper Articles" Yohei SEKI "NYU/CRL QA system, QAC question analysis and CRL QA data" Satoshi SEKINE, Kiyoshi SUDO, Yusuke SHINYAMA, Chikashi NOBATA, Kiyotaka UCHIMOTO and Hitoshi ISAHARA "Seeking Answers by Structural Matching and Paraphrasing" Tetsuro TAKAHASHI, Kozo NAWATA, Shinya KOUDA and Kentaro INUI "NTT DATA Question-Answering Experiment at the NTCIR-3 QAC" Toru Takaki and Yoshio Eriguchi "Article Retrieval and Answer Extraction Exploiting Characteristics in Newspaper Articles for the QAC Task2" Takayuki TOMOIKE, Tomohiro KAWACHI, Ruck THAWONMAS and Akio SAKAMOTO "Mie Univ. QA system for QAC-1" Fumito MASUI and Masayuki MIYAGUCHI "RitsQA: Ritsumeikan question answering system used for QAC-1" Junichi FUKUMOTO, Tetsuya ENDO and Tatsuhiro NIWA TSC* "Text summarization based on itemized sentences and similar parts detection between documents" Junichi FUKUMOTO "NTT/NAIST's Text Summarization Systems for TSC-2" Tsutomu HIRAO, Kazuhiro TAKEUCHI, Hideki ISOZAKI, Yutaka SASAKI　and Eisaku MAEDA "Trainable Automatic Text Summarization Using Segmentation of Sentence" Kai ISHIKAWA, Shin-ichi ANDO, Shin-ichi DOI and Akitoshi OKUMURA "Information Gain Ratio meets Maximal Marginal Relevance -A method of Summarization for Multiple Documents-" Tatsunori MORI and Takuro SASAKI "A summarization system with categorization of document sets" Chikashi NOBATA, Satoshi SEKINE, Kiyotaka UCHIMOTO and Hitoshi ISAHARA "Two Different Summarization Method at NTCIR3-TSC2: Coverage Oriented and Focus Oriented" Naoaki OKAZAKI, Yutaka MATSUO, Naohiro MATSUMURA, Hironori TOMOBE and Mitsuru ISHIZUKA "Unsupervised Acquisition of knowledge about the abbreviation possibility of some of multiple phrases modifying the same verb/noun" Hiroyuki SAKAI and Shigeru MASUYAMA "Sentence Extraction by tf/idf and Position Weighting from Query-Biased Summary for Newspaper Articles" Yohei SEKI
12:30-	Lunch will be served from 12:30
14:00-15:30	Session V: TSC2 (Semi-open) <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall> Chair: Manbu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology) "Text summarization Challenge 2 Text summarization evaluation at NTCIR Workshop3" Takahiro FUKUSIMA, Manabu OKUMURA and Hidetsugu NANBA "Trainable Automatic Text Summarization Using Segmentation of Sentence" Kai ISHIKAWA, Shin-ichi ANDO, Shin-ichi DOI and Akitoshi OKUMURA "Information Gain Ratio meets Maximal Marginal Relevance - A method of Summarization for Multiple Documents-" Tatsunori MORI and Takuro SASAKI "Unsupervised Acquisition of knowledge about the abbreviation possibility of some of multiple phrases modifying the same verb/noun" Hiroyuki SAKAI and Shigeru MASUYAMA "Sentence Extraction by tf/idf and Position Weighting from Query-Biased Summary for Newspaper Articles" Yohei SEKI
15:30-16:30	Wrap Up <Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall>

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