DAY-2 June 16 Wednesday

ACLIA01

SEPIA (Standard Evaluation Package for Information Access)

Hideki Shima and Teruko Mitamura

CCLQA01	An Open-domain Question Answering System for NTCIR-8 C-C Task	Guiping Zhang, Wubei Zhang, Yu Bai, Shengqiao Kang and Peiyan Wang
CCLQA02 /IR4QA	WHU Question Answering System at NTCIR-8 ACLIA Task	Han Ren, Donghong Ji and Jing Wan
CCLQA03 /IR4QA	Bootstrap　Pattern Learning for Open-Domain CLQA	Hideki Shima and Teruko Mitamura
CCLQA04	APQA System for CCLQA	Song Liu, Xiaobo Feng and Fuji Ren
CCLQA05	Description of the NTOU Complex QA System	Chuan-jie Lin and Yu-Min Kuo
CCLQA06	DLUT Question Answering System at NTCIR-8 CCLQA	Wei Wang, Degen Huang, Lishuang Li and Xiuying Li

IR4QA01	IMU Experiment in IR4QA at NTCIR-8	Xiangdong Su, Xueliang Yan, Guanglai Gao and Hongxi Wei
IR4QA02	Query Expansion from Wikipedia and Topic Web Crawler on CLIR	Meng Chun Lin, Ming-Xiang Li, Chih-Chuan Hsu and Shih-Hung Wu
IR4QA03	KECIR: An Information Retrieval System for IR4QA Task	Dongfeng Cai, Shengqiao Kang, Yu Bai and Peiyan Wang
IR4QA04	The Effectiveness of Results Re-Ranking and Query Expansion in Cross-language Information Retrieval	Dong Zhou and Vincent Wade
IR4QA05	Wikipedia and Web document based Query Translation and Expansion for Cross-language IR	Ling-Xiang Tang, Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva and Yue Xu
IR4QA06	Logistic Regression for IR4QA	Ray Larson
IR4QA07	DCU's Experiments for the NTCIR-8 IR4QA Task	Jinming Min, Jie Jiang, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J.F. Jones and Andy Way
IR4QA08	Wikipedia Article Content Based Query Expansion in IR4QA System	Maofu Liu, Bin Zhou, Liwen Qi and Zilou Zhang
IR4QA09	DLUT IR4QA system in NTCIR-8	De-gen Huang, Ze-zhong Li and Tian Yang
IR4QA10	Clustering and OCCC approaches in Document Re-ranking	Chong Teng, Yanxiang He, Donghong Ji, Yixuan Geng, Zhewei Mai and Guimin Lin
IR4QA/ CCLQA02	WHU Question Answering System at NTCIR-8 ACLIA Task*	Han Ren, Donghong Ji and Jing Wan
IR4QA/ CCLQA03	Bootstrap Pattern Learning for Open-Domain CLQA*	Hideki Shima and Teruko Mitamura

* Presentations made in CCLQA Session

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DAY-3 June 17 Thursday

GeoTime01	On a Combination of Probabilistic and Boolean IR Models for GeoTime Task	Masaharu Yoshioka
GeoTime02	Experiments with Geo-Temporal Expressions Filtering and Query Expansion at Document and Phrase Context Resolution	Jorge Machado, Jose Borbinha and Bruno Martins
GeoTime03	A Method for GeoTime Information Retrieval based on Question Decomposition and Question Answering	Tatsunori Mori
GeoTime04	Experiments with Semantic-flavored Query Reformulation of Geo-Temporal Queries	Nuno Cardoso and Mario J. Silva
GeoTime05	Vocabulary-based Re-ranking for Geographic and Temporal Searching at NTCIR GeoTime Task	Kazuaki Kishida
GeoTime06	Geographic Information Retrieval Involving Temporal Components	Christopher G.Harris
GeoTime07	Text Retrieval Baseline for NTCIR-GeoTime	Ray R. Larson
GeoTime08	GEO-News: A Geo-Hierarchy Based News Search and Extraction	C.Sudeep Reddy, Harshita Nanduri, P.D.S.R. Sandeep, Krishna Chaitanya and K.S. Rajan
GeoTime09	NTCIR-8 GeoTime at Osaka Kyoiku University - Hierarchical Index for Geographic Retrieval -	Takashi Sato and Yuu Fukuzawa
GeoTime10	DCU at NTCIR-8 GeoTime	Zhengwei Qiu, Cathal Gurrin, Aiden R. Doherty and Alan F. Smeaton

PATMN01	Multiple Strategies for NTCIR-8 Patent Mining at BCMI	Gang Jin, Qi Kong, Jian Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Cong Hui, Hai Zhao, and Bao-Liang Lu
PATMN02	Automatic IPC Encoding and Novelty Tracking for Effective Patent Mining	Douglas Teodoro, Emilie Pasche, Dina Vishnyakova, Julien Gobeill, Patrick Ruch and Christian Lovis.
PATMN03	Feature-Rich Information Extraction for the Technical Trend-Map Creation	Risa Nishiyama, Yuta Tsuboi, Yuya Unno and Hironori Takeuchi.
PATMN04	Extracting Technology and Effect Entities in Patents and Research Papers	Jingjing Wang, Han Tong Loh and Wen Feng Lu.
PATMN05	IRNLP@KAIST in Subtask of Research Papers Classification in NTCIR-8	Bashar Al-Shboul and Sung-Hyon Myaeng.
PATMN06	A KNN Research Paper Classification Method Based on Shared Nearest Neighbor	Yun-lei Cai, Duo Ji and Dong-feng Cai.
PATMN07	Integrating CRF and Rule Method for Knowledge Extraction in Patent Mining Task at NTCIR-8	Jie Gui, Peng Li, Chengzhi Zhang, Ying Li and Zhaofeng Zhang.
PATMN08	NTCIR-8 Research Paper Classification Experiments at Hitachi	Hisao Mase and Makoto Iwayama.
PATMN09	An Information Extraction Method for Multiple Data Sources	Hironori Mizuguchi and Dai Kusui.
PATMN10	Hiroshima City University at NTCIR-8 Patent Mining Task	Hidetsugu Nanba, Tomoki Kondo, and Toshiyuki Takezawa.
PATMN11	Experiments for NTCIR-8 Technical Trend Map Creation Subtask at Hitachi	Yusuke Sato and Makoto Iwayama.
PATMN12	NTCIR-8 Patent Mining Task at Toyohashi University of Technology	Yusuke Suzuki, Hirofumi Nonaka, Hiroki Sakaji, Akio Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Sakai and Shigeru Masuyama.

CQA01	Microsoft Research Asia with Redmond at the NTCIR-8 Community QA Pilot Task	Young-In Song, Jing Liu, Tetsuya Sakai, Xin-Jing Wang, Guwen Feng, Yunbo Cao, Hisami Suzuki and Chin-Yew Lin
CQA02	ASURA: A Best-Answer Estimation System for NTCIR-8 CQA Pilot Task	Daisuke Ishikawa
CQA03	Best-Answer Selection Using a Machine Learning Tool at NTCIR8 CQA Pilot Task	Kazuko Kuriyama

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DAY-4 June 18 Friday

PATMT01	MaTrEx: the DCU MT System for NTCIR-8	Tsuyoshi Okita, Jie Jiang, Rejwanul Haque, Hala Al-Maghout, Jinhua Du, Sudip Naskar and Andy Way
PATMT02	Machine Translation for Patent Documents Combining Rule-based Translation and Statistical Post-editing	Terumasa Ehara
PATMT03	System Description of NiCT SMT for NTCIR-8	Keiji Yasuda, Taro Watanabe, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita
PATMT04	Statistical Machine Translation adding Rule based Machine Translation	Jin'ichi Murakami, Masato Tokuhisa and Satoru Ikehara
PATMT05	The POSTECH's Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the NTCIR-8 Patent Translation Task	Hwidong Na, Hankyoung Kim and Jong-Hyeok Lee
PATMT06	Fully Syntactic EBMT System of KYOTO Team in NTCIR-8	Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi
PATMT07	Analyzing Effects of Factored Translation Models in English to Japanese Statistical Machine Translation	Takahiro Oda and Tomoyosi Akiba
PATMT08	Hiroshima City University at Evaluation Subtask in the NTCIR-8 Patent Translation Task	Hidetsugu Nanba, Kazuho Hirahara and Toshiyuki Takezawa

MOAT01	Opinion Detection by Combining Machine Learning & Linguistic Tools	Olena Zubaryeva and Jacques Savoy
MOAT02	PKUTM Experiments in NTCIR-8 MOAT Task	Chenfeng Wang, Tengfei Ma, Liqiang Guo, Xiaojun Wan and Jianwu Yang
MOAT03	Supervised Approaches and Dependency Parsing for Chinese Opinion Analysis at NTCIR-8	Bin Lu, Benjamin K. Tsou and Tao Jiang
MOAT04	The OpAL System at NTCIR 8 MOAT	Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andres Montoyo and Patricio Martinez-Barco
MOAT05	NECLC at Multilingual Opinion Analysis Task in NTCIR8	Bo Chen, Saike He
MOAT06	Detecting Opinions and their Opinion Targets in NTCIR-8	Yoonjung Choi, Seongchan Kim and Sung-Hyon Myaeng
MOAT07	Opinion Sentences Extraction and Polarity Classification Using Automatically Generated Templates	Wan-Chi Huang, Meng-Chun Lin and Shih-Hung Wu
MOAT08	Opinion Analysis for NTCIR8 at POSTECH	Hun-Young Jung, Jungi Kim and Jong-Hyeok Lee
MOAT09	Word Spaces as Input to Categorisation of Attitude	Jussi Karlgren
MOAT11	Opinion Analysis Task of Simplified Chinese Monolingual at NTCIR-8	Yuan Kuang, Bo Zhang, Wenbin Pan, Yujie Zhang, Bin Zhang, Rongjun Li , Yu Mao and Yanquan Zhou
MOAT10	Enhance Japanese Opinionated Sentence Identification using Linguistic Features: Experiences of the IISR Group at NTCIR-8 MOAT Task	Guo-Hau Lai, Jyun-Wei Huang, Chia-Pei Gao and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
MOAT12	Incorporating Feature-based and Similarity-based Opinion Mining - CTL in NTCIR-8 MOAT	Ruifeng Xu and Chunyu Kit
MOAT13	PolyU at MOAT in NTCIR-8	Wenping Zhang, Dehong Gao and Wenjie Li
MOAT14	WIA-Opinmine System in NTCIR-8 MOAT Evaluation	Lanjun Zhou, Yunqing Xia, Binyang Li and Kam-Fai Wong