NTCIR-8 Table of Contents

Preface

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Preface of NTCIR-8 [Pdf]        NTCIR-8 Organizing Committee and Noriko Kando
pp. i-iii

Overview

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Overview of the Eighth NTCIR Workshop [Pdf] [Slides] [Abstract]
      Noriko Kando
pp.xi-xviii

Invited Talk

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Building Watson: A Grand Challenge in Automatic NL Question Answering [Pdf] [Abstract]
      David A. Ferrucci and Koichi Takeda
pp. 1-1

CLEF, CLEF 2010, and PROMISEs: Perspectives for the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum [Pdf] [Slides] [Abstract]
      Nicola Ferro
pp. 2-12

ClueWeb09 and TREC Diversity [Pdf] [Slides] [Abstract]
      Charles Clarke
pp. 13-13

E-Commerce Data through Rakuten Data Challenge [Pdf (added on 20100615)] [Abstract]
      Masahiro Sanjo and Satoshi Sekine

Complex Cross-Lingual Question Answering Task (CCLQA)

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Overview of the NTCIR-8 ACLIA Tasks: Advanced Cross-Lingual Information Access [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Teruko Mitamura, Hideki Shima, Tetsuya Sakai, Noriko Kando, Tatsunori Mori, Koichi Takeda, Chin-Yew Lin, Ruihua Song, Chuan-Jie Lin and Cheng-Wei Lee
pp.15-24

An Open-domain Question Answering System for NTCIR-8 C-C Task [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Guiping Zhang, Wubei Zhang, Yu Bai, Shengqiao Kang and Peiyan Wang
pp.25-30

Bootstrap Pattern Learning for Open-Domain CLQA [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Hideki Shima and Teruko Mitamura
pp.37-42

APQA System for CCLQA [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Song Liu, Xiaobo Feng and Fuji Ren
pp.43-46

Description of the NTOU Complex QA System [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Chuan-jie Lin and Yu-Min Kuo
pp.47-54

DLUT Question Answering System at NTCIR-8 CCLQA [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Wei Wang, Degen Huang, Lishuang Li and Xiuying Li
pp.55-62

Information Retrieval for Question Answering Task (IR4QA)

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Overview of NTCIR-8 ACLIA IR4QA [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Tetsuya Sakai, Hideki Shima, Noriko Kando, Ruihua Song, Chuan-Jie Lin, Teruko Mitamura, Miho Sugimito, Cheng-Wei Lee
pp.63-93

IMU Experiment in IR4QA at NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Revised Paper Pdf 20100629] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Xiangdong Su, Xueliang Yan, Guanglai Gao and Hongxi Wei
pp.94-100

Query Expansion from Wikipedia and Topic Web Crawler on CLIR [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Meng-Chun Lin, Ming-Xiang Li, Chih-Chuan Hsu and Shih-Hung Wu
pp.101-106

KECIR: An Information Retrieval System for IR4QA Task [Pdf] [Revised Paper Pdf 20100615] [Abstract]
      Dongfeng Cai, Shengqiao Kang, Yu Bai and Peiyan Wang
pp.107-113

The Effectiveness of Results Re-Ranking and Query Expansion in Cross-language Information Retrieval [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Dong Zhou and Vincent Wade
pp.114-120

Wikipedia and Web document based Query Translation and Expansion for Cross-language IR [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Ling-Xiang Tang, Andrew Trotman, Shlomo Geva and Yue Xu
pp.121-125

Logistic Regression for IR4QA [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Ray Larson
pp.126-129

DCU's Experiments for the NTCIR-8 IR4QA Task [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Jinming Min, Jie Jiang, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J.F. Jones and Andy Way
pp.130-135

Wikipedia Article Content Based Query Expansion in IR4QA System [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Maofu Liu, Bin Zhou, Liwen Qi and Zilou Zhang
pp.136-139

DLUT IR4QA System in NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Abstract]
      De-gen Huang, Ze-zhong Li and Tian Yang
pp.140-142

Clustering and OCCC Approaches in Document Re-ranking [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Chong Teng, Yanxiang He, Donghong Ji, Yixuan Geng, Zhewei Mai and Guimin Lin
pp.143-146

WHU Question Answering System at NTCIR-8 ACLIA Task* [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Han Ren, Donghong Ji and Jing Wan
pp.31-36

Bootstrap Pattern Learning for Open-Domain CLQA* [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Hideki Shima and Teruko Mitamura
pp.37-42

Geotemporal Information Retrieval (GeoTime)

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NTCIR-GeoTime Overview: Evaluating Geographic and Temporal Search [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Fredric Gey, Ray Larson, Noriko Kando, Jorge Machado and Tetsuya Sakai
pp.147-153

On a Combination of Probabilistic and Boolean IR Models for GeoTime Task [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Masaharu Yoshioka
pp.154-158

Experiments with Geo-Temporal Expressions Filtering and Query Expansion at Document and Phrase Context Resolution [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Jorge Machado, Jose Borbinha and Bruno Martins
pp.159-166

A Method for GeoTime Information Retrieval based on Question Decomposition and Question Answering [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Tatsunori Mori
pp.167-172

Experiments with Semantic-flavored Query Reformulation of Geo-Temporal Queries [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Nuno Cardoso and Mario J. Silva
pp.173-180

Vocabulary-based Re-ranking for Geographic and Temporal Searching at NTCIR GeoTime Task [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Kazuaki Kishida
pp.181-184

Geographic Information Retrieval Involving Temporal Components [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Christopher G. Harris
pp.185-189

Text Retrieval Baseline for NTCIR-GeoTime [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Ray R. Larson
pp.190-191

GEO-News: A Geo-Hierarchy based News Search and Extraction [Pdf] [Abstract]
      C.Sudeep Reddy, Harshita Nanduri, P.D.S.R. Sandeep, Krishna Chaitanya and K.S. Rajan
pp.192-198

NTCIR-8 GeoTime at Osaka Kyoiku University: Hierarchical Index for Geographic Retrieval [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Takashi Sato and Yuu Fukuzawa
pp.199-202

DCU at NTCIR-8 GeoTime [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Zhengwei Qiu, Cathal Gurrin, Aiden R. Doherty and Alan F. Smeaton
pp.203-207

Multilingual Opinion Analysis Task (MOAT)

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Overview of Multilingual Opinion Analysis Task at NTCIR-8: A Step Toward Cross Lingual Opinion Analysis [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Yohei Seki, Lun-Wei Ku, Le Sun, Hsin-Hsi Chen and Noriko Kando
pp.209-220

Opinion Detection by Combining Machine Learning & Linguistic Tools [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Olena Zubaryeva and Jacques Savoy
pp.221-227

PKUTM Experiments in NTCIR-8 MOAT Task [Pdf] [Slides] [Abstract]
      Chenfeng Wang, Tengfei Ma, Liqiang Guo, Xiaojun Wan and Jianwu Yang
pp.228-233

Supervised Approaches and Dependency Parsing for Chinese Opinion Analysis at NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Bin Lu, Benjamin K. Tsou and Tao Jiang
pp.234-240

The OpAL System at NTCIR 8 MOAT [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andres Montoyo and Patricio Martinez-Barco
pp.241-245

NECLC at Multilingual Opinion Analysis Task in NTCIR8 [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Bo Chen and Saike He
pp.246-248

Detecting Opinions and their Opinion Targets in NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Yoonjung Choi, Seongchan Kim and Sung-Hyon Myaeng
pp.249-254

Opinion Sentences Extraction and Polarity Classification Using Automatically Generated Templates [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Wan-Chi Huang, Meng-Chun Lin and Shih-Hung Wu
pp.255-257

Opinion Analysis for NTCIR8 at POSTECH [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Hun-Young Jung, Jungi Kim and Jong-Hyeok Lee
pp.258-262

Word Spaces as Input to Categorisation of Attitude [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Jussi Karlgren
pp.263-264

Opinion Analysis Task of Simplified Chinese Monolingual at NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Yuan Kuang, Bo Zhang, Wenbin Pan, Yujie Zhang, Bin Zhang, Rongjun Li , Yu Mao and Yanquan Zhou
pp.265-271

Enhance Japanese Opinionated Sentence Identification Using Linguistic Features: Experiences of the IISR Group at NTCIR-8 MOAT Task [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Guo-Hau Lai, Jyun-Wei Huang, Chia-Pei Gao and Richard Tzong-Han Tsai
pp.272-275

Incorporating Feature-based and Similarity-based Opinion Mining - CTL in NTCIR-8 MOAT [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Ruifeng Xu and Chunyu Kit
pp.276-281

PolyU at MOAT in NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Wenping Zhang, Dehong Gao and Wenjie Li
pp.282-285

WIA-Opinmine System in NTCIR-8 MOAT Evaluation [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Lanjun Zhou, Yunqing Xia, Binyang Li and Kam-Fai Wong
pp.286-292

Patent Mining Task (PAT MN)

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Overview of the Patent Mining Task at the NTCIR-8 Workshop [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Hidetsugu Nanba, Atsushi Fujii, Makoto Iwayama and Taiichi Hashimoto
pp.293-302

Multiple Strategies for NTCIR-8 Patent Mining at BCMI [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Gang Jin, Qi Kong, Jian Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Cong Hui, Hai Zhao, and Bao-Liang Lu
pp.303-308

Automatic IPC Encoding and Novelty Tracking for Effective Patent Mining [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Douglas Teodoro, Emilie Pasche, Dina Vishnyakova, Julien Gobeill, Patrick Ruch and Christian Lovis
pp.309-317

Feature-Rich Information Extraction for the Technical Trend-Map Creation [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Risa Nishiyama, Yuta Tsuboi, Yuya Unno and Hironori Takeuchi
pp.318-324

Extracting Technology and Effect Entities in Patents and Research Papers [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Jingjing Wang, Han Tong Loh and Wen Feng Lu
pp.325-330

IRNLP@KAIST in Subtask of Research Papers Classification in NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Bashar Al-Shboul and Sung-Hyon Myaeng
pp.331-335

A KNN Research Paper Classification Method Based on Shared Nearest Neighbor [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Yun-lei Cai, Duo Ji and Dong-feng Cai
pp.336-340

Integrating CRF and Rule Method for Knowledge Extraction in Patent Mining Task at NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Jie Gui, Peng Li, Chengzhi Zhang, Ying Li and Zhaofeng Zhang
pp.341-344

NTCIR-8 Research Paper Classification Experiments at Hitachi [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Hisao Mase and Makoto Iwayama
pp.345-347

An Information Extraction Method for Multiple Data Sources [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Hironori Mizuguchi and Dai Kusui
pp.348-353

Hiroshima City University at NTCIR-8 Patent Mining Task [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Hidetsugu Nanba, Tomoki Kondo, and Toshiyuki Takezawa.
pp.354-358

Experiments for NTCIR-8 Technical Trend Map Creation Subtask at Hitachi [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Yusuke Sato and Makoto Iwayama
pp.359-363

NTCIR-8 Patent Mining Task at Toyohashi University of Technology [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Yusuke Suzuki, Hirofumi Nonaka, Hiroki Sakaji, Akio Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Sakai and Shigeru Masuyama
pp.364-369

Patent Translation Task (PAT MT)

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Overview of the Patent Translation Task at the NTCIR-8 Workshop [Pdf] [Slides] [Abstract]
      Atsushi Fujii, Masao Utiyama, Mikio Yamamoto, Takehito Utsuro, Terumasa Ehara, Hiroshi Echizen-ya and Sayori Shimohata
pp.371-376

MaTrEx: the DCU MT System for NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Slides] [Abstract]
      Tsuyoshi Okita, Jie Jiang, Rejwanul Haque, Hala Al-Maghout, Jinhua Du, Sudip Naskar and Andy Way
pp.377-383

Machine Translation for Patent Documents Combining Rule-based Translation and Statistical Post-editing [Pdf][Slides and Poster] [Abstract]
      Terumasa Ehara
pp.384-386

System Description of NiCT SMT for NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Keiji Yasuda, Taro Watanabe, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita
pp.387-390

Statistical Machine Translation Adding Rule-based Machine Translation [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Jin'ichi Murakami, Masato Tokuhisa and Satoru Ikehara
pp.391-396

The POSTECH's Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the NTCIR-8 Patent Translation Task [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Hwidong Na, Hankyoung Kim and Jong-Hyeok Lee
pp.397-402

Fully Syntactic EBMT System of KYOTO Team in NTCIR-8 [Pdf] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Toshiaki Nakazawa and Sadao Kurohashi
pp.403-410

Analyzing Effects of Factored Translation Models in English to Japanese Statistical Machine Translation [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Takahiro Oda and Tomoyosi Akiba
pp.411-414

Hiroshima City University at Evaluation Subtask in the NTCIR-8 Patent Translation Task [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Hidetsugu Nanba, Kazuho Hirahara and Toshiyuki Takezawa
pp.415-419

Community QA (CQA)

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Overview of the NTCIR-8 Community QA Pilot Task (Part I): The Test Collection and the Task [Pdf] [Slides] [Abstract]
      Daisuke Ishikawa, Tetsuya Sakai and Noriko Kando
pp.421-432

Overview of the NTCIR-8 Community QA Pilot Task (Part II): System Evaluation [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Tetsuya Sakai, Daisuke Ishikawa and Noriko Kando
pp.433-457

Microsoft Research Asia with Redmond at the NTCIR-8 Community QA Pilot Task [Pdf] [Slides] [Abstract]
      Young-In Song, Jing Liu, Tetsuya Sakai, Xin-Jing Wang, Guwen Feng, Yunbo Cao, Hisami Suzuki and Chin-Yew Lin
pp.458-465

ASURA: A Best-Answer Estimation System for NTCIR-8 CQA Pilot Task [Pdf] [Slides] [Poster] [Abstract]
      Daisuke Ishikawa
pp.466-470

Best-Answer Selection Using a Machine Learning Tool at NTCIR8 CQA Pilot Task [Pdf] [Abstract]
      Kazuko Kuriyama
pp.471-472

Table of Contents (in the printed version) [Pdf]

Author Index (in the printed version) [Pdf]