NTCIR Workshop 1
Proceedings of the First NTCIR Workshop on Research in Japanese Text Retrieval and Term Recognition
August 30 - September 1, 1999

KKR Hotel Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Copyright (C) 1999 National Center for Science Information Systems
ISBN: 4-924600-77-6
Organized by:
NACSIS (National Center for Science Information Systems)

In cooperation with:
IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan)
SIG-FI (Fundamental Infology), IPSJ
Supported by:
JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) "Research for the Future Program: Studies on Ubiquitous Information Systems for Utilization of Highly Distributed Information Resources" (Principal Investigator: Jun Adachi, Professor, NACSIS)


Proceedings for other NTCIR workshops can be found at the NTCIR proceedings page.


Preface [PDF]
Noriko Kando (NACSIS)


1. Keynote Speech
"The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC)" [PDF]
Donna Harman (National Institute of Standards and Technology)


2. IR Tasks (Ad Hoc IR Task and Crosslingual IR Task)

2.1 Overview & Advisory Report

"Overview of IR tasks"[PDF]
Noriko Kando, Kazuko Kuriyama, Toshihiko Nozue, Koji Eguchi, Hiroyuki Kato and Soichiro Hidaka (NACSIS)

"NTCIR Advisor Report" [PDF]
Yasushi Ogawa (Software Research Center, RICOH Co., Ltd.)


2.2 Research Articles

---- Ad Hoc IR and Cross-lingual ----

"Comparing Multiple Methods for Japanese and Japanese-English Text Retrieval" [PDF]
Aitao Chen*, Fredric C. Gey**, Kazuaki Kishida***, Hailing Jiang* and Qun Liang* (*School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley, **UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance (UC DATA), ***Faculty of Cultural Information Resources, Surugadai University)

"Information Retrieval Based on Stochastic Models" [PDF]
Masaki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hiromi Ozaku and Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications)

"NTCIR Experiments at Matsushita: Ad-hoc and CLIR Task" [PDF]
Mitsuhiro Sato, Hayashi Ito and Naohiko Noguchi (Multimedia Systems Research Laboratory, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.)

---- Ad Hoc IR ----

"R2D2at NTCIR: Using the Relevance-based Superimposition Model" [PDF]
Teruhito Kanazawa (Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo)

"Japanese Word Segmentation Using Similarity Measure for IR" [PDF]
Tomohiro Ozawa*, Mikio Yamamoto*, Kyoji Umemura** and Kenneth W. Church*** (*University of Tsukuba, **Toyohashi University of Technology, ***AT&T Labs - Research)

"Experiments with Japanese Text Retrieval Usingmg"[PDF]
Phil Vines*, Ross Wilkinson** (*Department of Computer Science, RMIT, **CSIRO)

---- Ad Hoc IR using NLP Techniques ----

 "Notes on Phrasal Indexing: JSCB Evaluation Experiments at NTCIR AD HOC" [PDF]
Sumio Fujita (JUSTSYSTEM Corporation)

"Proposal and Evaluation of Significant Words Selection Method Based on AIC" [PDF]
Shigeki Ohira and Katsuhiko Shirai (School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University)

"Structured Index System at NTCIR1: Information Retrieval using Dependency Relationship between Words" [PDF]
Atsushi Matsumura, Atsuhiro Takasu and Jun Adachi(NACSIS)

---- Interactive Ad Hoc Retrieval ----

"Interactive Document Search with DualNAVI" [PDF]
Yoshiki Niwa, Makoto Iwayama, Toru Hisamitsu, Shingo Nishioka, Akihiko Takano, Hirofumi Sakurai and Osamu Imaichi (Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.)

---- Cross-Lingual IR ----

"Dynamic Programming: A New Paradigm for Information Retrieval" [PDF]
Ryuichi Sawada and Kyoji Umemura (Toyohashi University of Technology)

"Cross-Language Information Retrieval for NTCIR at Toshiba" [PDF]
Tetsuya Sakai, Yasuyo Shibazaki, Masaru Suzuki, Masahiro Kajiura, Toshihiko Manabe and Kazuo Sumita (Toshiba R&D Center)

"Description of the NTU Japanese-English Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval System [PDF]
Chuan-Jie Lin, Wen-Cheng Lin, Guo-Wei Bian and Hsin-Hsi Chen (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,National Taiwan University)

"Cross Language Information Retrieval Based on Comparable Corpora" [PDF]
Satoshi Nakazawa*, Takayoshi Ochiai**, Kenji Satoh* and Akitoshi Okumura*
(*C&C Media Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, **Open Technology System Division, NEC Information Systems, Ltd.)

"NTCIR CLIR Experiments at the University of Maryland" [PDF]
Douglas W. Oard and Jianqiang Wang (Digital Library Research Group, College of Library and Information Services, University of Maryland)

"Cross-Language Information Retrieval at ULIS" [PDF]
Atsushi Fujii and Tetsuya Ishikawa (University of Library and Information Science)

---- IR with Heterogenous Documents ----

"Multi-lingual Multi-media Information Retrieval System" [PDF]
Shoji Mizobuchi*, Sankon Lee*, Fumihiko Kawano*,Tsuyoshi Kobayashi*, Takahiro Komatsu*, Jun-ichi Aoe** (*Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokushima, **Department of Information Science & Intelligent Systems, University of Tokushima)

---- Without Oral Presentation ----

"A Character-based Indexing and Word-based Ranking Method for Japanese Text Retrieval" [PDF]
Toshikazu Fukushima and Susumu Akamine (Human Media Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation)

"Development of a Related Document Retrieval System and Evaluation of the System Using NTCIR-1" [PDF]
Hiroshi Umemoto, Tsutomu Kuramochi, Yasuhiro Ishitobi and Masakazu Tateno (Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.)

"Idea-deriving Information Retrieval System" [PDF]
Tsuneaki Kato*, Shigeo Shimada**, Mutsumi Kumamoto** and Kazumitsu Matsuzawa*** (*NTT Communication Science Laboratories, **NTT Advanced Tech. Corp, ***NTT Service Integration Laboratories)

An Advanced System for Information Retrieval via Key Concepts [PDF]
Hiroyuki Kameda, Noriko Oomori, Chiaki Kubomura and Yukinobu Tanifuji (School of Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology)


2.3 Evaluation Results of Each Run

Ad Hoc IR Task [PDF]
Crosslingual IR Task [PDF]
Monolingual IR Task [PDF]


2.4 System Description Form of Each Group

Ad Hoc IR Task [PDF]
complete description [PDF]
Crosslingual IR Task [PDF]
complete description [PDF]


3. TMREC Task (Automatic Term Recognition and Role Analysis Task)
3.1 Overview and Evaluation

"Overview of TMREC Tasks" [PDF]
Kyo Kageura*, Masaharu Yoshioka*, Koichi Takeuchi*, Teruo Koyama*, Keita Tsuji**, Fuyuki Yoshikane** and Maho Okada* (*NACSIS, **Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo)

"Evaluation of the Term Recognition Task"[PDF]
Kyo Kageura*, Masaharu Yoshioka*, Keita Tsuji**, Fuyuki Yoshikane**, Koichi Takeuchi* and Teruo Koyama* (*NACSIS, **Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo)

"Evaluation of the Keyword Extraction Task"[PDF]
Koichi Takeuchi, Masaharu Yoshioka, Teruo Koyama and Kyo Kageura (NACSIS)

"Evaluation of the Role Analysis Task"[PDF]
Teruo Koyama, Masaharu Yoshioka, Koichi Takeuchi and Kyo Kageura (NACSIS)


3.2 Research Articles

"Term Recognition by Using Different Field Corpora" [PDF]
Kiyotaka Uchimoto*, Satoshi Sekine**, Masaki Murata*, Hiromi Ozaku* and Hitoshi Isahara* (*Communications Research Laboratory, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, **New York University)

"Compound Noun Based System for Automatic Term Recognition Task"[PDF]
Hiroshi Nakagawa (Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo)

"Extraction of Semantic Relationships among Terms to Construct Organized Knowledge Resources"[PDF]
Takayuki Morimoto*, Tetsuya Maeshiro**, Yuzuru Fujiwara* (* Department of Information Science, Kanagawa University, ** ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories)

"NTCIR Experiments at Matsushita: TMREC Task" [PDF]
Yoshio Fukushige and Naohiko Noguchi (Multimedia Systems Research Laboratory, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.)

"Term Extraction Using A New Measure of Term Representativeness"[PDF]
Toru Hisamitsu, Yoshiki Niwa, Shingo Nishioka, Hirofumi Sakurai, Osamu Imaichi, Makoto Iwayama and Akihiko Takano (Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.)

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