NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research (2004)
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Proceedings of the Fourth NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Access Technologies Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Summarization, NTCIR-4, National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, June 2-4, 2004
A Multiple-Document Summarization System Introducing User Interaction for Reflecting User's Summarization Need
Hiroyuki Sakai
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Shigeru Masuyama
A Question Answering System Based on Vector Similarity
Takuya Kosugi
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Hiroya Susuki
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Hiroyuki Okamoto
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Hiroaki Saito
A Web Search Result Classification System Based on the Degree of Suitability for Specialists
Masanobu Tsuruta
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Yoshiyuki Umemura
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Hiroyuki Sakai
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Shigeru Masuyama
Aligning Patent Claims with Detailed Descriptions for Readability
Akihiro Shinmori
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Manabu Okumura
An Evaluation Method of Web Search Engines Based on Users' Sense
Takashi Ohtsuka
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Koji Eguchi
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Hayato Yamana
Applying Language Model into IR Task
Junlin Zhang
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Le Sun
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Yongche Zhang
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Yufang Sun
Applying Multiple Characteristics and Techniques to Obtain High Levels of Performance in Information Retrieval at NTCIR-4
Masaki Murata
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Qing Ma
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Hitoshi Isahara
Are We Making Progress? - An Analysis of NTCIR QAC1 and 2
Masako Nomoto
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Yoshio Fukushige
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Mitsuhiro Sato
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Hiroyuki Suzuki
CJK Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServer^ at NTCIR-4
Stephen Tomlinson
CLIR Using Web Directory at NTCIR-4
Fuminori Kimura
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Akira Maeda
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Shunsuke Uemura
Can Claim Analysis Contribute toward Patent Map Generation?
Akihiro Shinmori
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Manabu Okumura
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Yuzo Marukawa
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Makoto Iwayama
Chinese Information Retrieval Based on Terms and Ontology
Lingpeng Yang
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Donghong Ji
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Li Tang
Chinese and Korean Topic Search of Japanese News Collections
Fredric C. Gey
Combination Approaches in Information Retrieval: Words vs. N-grams and Query Translation vs. Document Translation
In-Su Kang
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Seung-Hoon Na
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Jong-Hyeok Lee
Comparison of Feature Usage at TSC-3 Summarization Tasks
Chikashi Nobata
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Satoshi Sekine
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Kiyotaka Uchimoto
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Hitoshi Isahara
Cross-Language IR at University of Tsukuba: Automatic Transliteration for Japanese, English, and Korean
Atsushi Fujii
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Tetsuya Ishikawa
Document Clustering at NTCIR-4 Workshop: Limiting Search Space of the K-Means Method Using Word Occurrence
Yuji Kaneda
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Naonori Ueda
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Kazumi Saito
Document Structure Analysis in Associative Patent Retrieval
Atsushi Fujii
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Tetsuya Ishikawa
Evaluating ADM on a Four-Level Relevance Scale Document Set from NTCIR
Vincenzo Della Mea
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Luca Di Gaspero
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Stefano Mizzaro
Experiments on Chinese-English Cross-language Retrieval at NTCIR-4
Yilu Zhou
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Jialun Qin
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Michael Chau
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Hsinchun Chen
Experiments on Patent Retrieval at NTCIR-4 Workshop
Hironori Takeuchi
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Naohiko Uramoto
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Koichi Takeda
Experiments on Web Retrieval Driven by Spontaneously Spoken Queries
Tomoyosi Akiba
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Atsushi Fujii
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Tetsuya Ishikawa
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Katunobu Itou
Finding Relevant Answers in Question Answering System Contest
David Ramamonjisoa
GDQA: Graph Driven Question Answering System - NTCIR-4 QAC2 Experiments
Gakuto Kurata
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Naoaki Okazaki
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Mitsuru Ishizuka
Giving an Upprebound of the Number of Clusters and Relevant Words in Hierarchical Document Clustering Based on BIC
Yoshio Fukushige
Global and Local Term Expansion for Text Retrieval
Yuen-Hsien Tseng
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Da-Wei Juang
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Shiu-Han Chen
Integration of PLSA into Probabilistic CLIR Model - Yokohama National University at NTCIR4 CLIR
Tetsu Muramatsu
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Tatsunori Mori
Invalidity Patent Search System of NTT DATA
Kazuya Konishi
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Akira Kitauchi
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Toru Takaki
Japanese Q/A System Using A* Search and Its Improvement - Yokohama National University at QAC2
Tatsunori Mori
Japanese Question-Answering System Using Decreased Adding with Multiple Answers
Masaki Murata
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Masao Utiyama
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Hitoshi Isahara
Justsystem-Clairvoyance CLIR Experiments at NTCIR-4 Workshop
Yan Qu
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Gregory Grefenstette
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David A. Hull
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David A. Evans
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Motoko Ishikawa
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Setsuko Nara
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Toshiya Ueda
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Daisuke Noda
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Kousaku Arita
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Yuki Funakoshi
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Hiroshi Matsuda
KUNLP System for NTCIR-4 Korean-English Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Hee-Cheol Seo
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Sang-Bum Kim
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Ho-Gun Lim
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Hae-Chang Rim
Looking for a Few Good Metrics: Automatic Summarization Evaluation - How Many Samples Are Enough?
Chin-Yew Lin
Merging Multilingual Information Retrieval Results Based on Prediction of Retrieval Effectiveness
Wen-Cheng Lin
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Hsin-Hsi Chen
Multi-Document Summarization Using Cross-Language Texts
Jung-Min Lim
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In-Su Kang
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Jong-Hyeok Lee
Multi-Document Summarization Using a Question-Answering Engine - Yokohama National University at TSC3
Tatsunori Mori
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Masanori Nozawa
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Yoshiaki Asada
Multi-Document Summarization Using Document Set Type Classification
Jun-ichi Fukumoto
Multiple News Articles Summarization Based on Event Reference Information
Masaharu Yoshioka
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Makoto Haraguchi
NAIST QA System for QAC2
Tetsuro Takahashi
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Kozo Nawata
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Kentaro Inui
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Yuji Matsumoto
NTCIR-4 CLIR Experiments at Oki
Tetsuji Nakagawa
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Mihoko Kitamura
NTCIR-4 Chinese, English, Korean Cross Language Retrieval Experiments Using PIRCS
Kui-Lam Kwok
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Norbert Dinstl
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Sora Choi
NTCIR-4 PATENT Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University - Gram-Based Passage Index and Essential Words
Takashi Sato
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Nao Hatta
NTCIR-4 Patent Retrieval Experiments at RICOH
Hideo Itoh
NTCIR-4 QAC Experiments at Matsushita
Masako Nomoto
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Yoshio Fukushige
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Mitsuhiro Sato
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Hiroyuki Suzuki
NTCIR-4 WEB Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University - Static/Dynamic Scoring Using Link Structure Analysis and Web Page Grouping
Hitoshi Nakakubo
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Peng Zhang
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Takashi Sato
NTT DATA Question-Answering Experiment at the NTCIR-4 QAC2
Toru Takaki
NTT's Question Answering System for NTCIR QAC2
Hideki Isozaki
NYU/CRL QA System for QAC-2
Satoshi Sekine
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Kiyoshi Sudo
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Yusuke Shinyama
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Chikashi Nobata
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Kiyotaka Uchimoto
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Hitoshi Isahara
Navigation Retrieval with Site Anchor Text
Hideki Kawai
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Kenji Tateishi
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Toshikazu Fukushima
New Performance Metrics Based on Multigrade Relevance: Their Application to Question Answering
Tetsuya Sakai
Oki QA System for QAC-2
Masachika Fuchigami
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Hiroyuki Ohnuma
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Atsushi Ikeno
Overlapping Clustering Method Using Local and Global Importance of Feature Terms at NTCIR-4 WEB Task
Manabu Ohta
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Hirokazu Narita
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Shigeyoshi Ohno
Overview of CLIR Task at the Fourth NTCIR Workshop
Kazuaki Kishida
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Kuang-hua Chen
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Sukhoon Lee
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Kazuko Kuriyama
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Noriko Kando
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Hsin-Hsi Chen
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Sung-Hyon Myaeng
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Koji Eguchi
Overview of Patent Retrieval Task at NTCIR-4
Atsushi Fujii
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Makoto Iwayama
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Noriko Kando
Overview of WEB Task at the Fourth NTCIR Workshop
Keizo Oyama
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Akiko Aizawa
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Haruko Ishikawa
Overview of the Fourth NTCIR Workshop
Noriko Kando
Overview of the Informational Retrieval Task at NTCIR-4 WEB
Koji Eguchi
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Keizo Oyama
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Akiko Aizawa
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Haruko Ishikawa
Overview of the NTCIR-4 WEB Navigational Retrieval Task 1
Keizo Oyama
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Koji Eguchi
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Haruko Ishikawa
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Akiko Aizawa
Overview of the Topical Classification Task at NTCIR-4 WEB
Koji Eguchi
POSTECH Question-Answering Experiments at NTCIR4-QAC
Seung-Hoon Na
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In-Su Kang
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Jong-Hyeok Lee
Patent Map Generation Using Concept-Based Vector Space Model
Hideyuki Uchida
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Atsushi Mano
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Takashi Yukawa
Prediction of Performance on Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval by Regression Models
Kazuaki Kishida
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Kazuko Kuriyama
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Noriko Kando
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Koji Eguchi
Preface from the Organizing Chair
Jun Adachi
Preface from the Program Chair
Noriko Kando
Preliminary Workshop on Evaluation of Geographic Information Retrieval Systems for Web Documents
Masatoshi Arikawa
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Takeshi Sagara
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Kouzou Noaki
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Hideyuki Fujita
Pseudo-Relevance Feedback and Title Re-Ranking for Chinese Information Retrieval
Robert W. P. Luk
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Kam-Fai Wong
Query-Based Multidocument Summarization for Information Retrieval
Toshihiko Sakurai
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Akira Utsumi
Question Answering Challenge for Five Ranked Answers and List Answers - Overview of NTCIR4 QAC2 Subtask 1 and 2
Jun-ichi Fukumoto
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Tsuneaki Kato
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Fumito Masui
Question Answering Challenge for Information Access Dialogue - Overview of NTCIR4 QAC2 Subtask
Tsuneaki Kato
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Jun-ichi Fukumoto
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Fumito Masui
Question Answering System Using Concept-Based Vector Space Model
Isrami Ismail
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Takashi Yukawa
Question Answering System QUARK
Yasuo Nii
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Keizo Kawata
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Tatsumi Yoshida
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Hiroyuki Sakai
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Shigeru Masuyama
Question Answering System Based on Expanded Answer Types and Multi-Scores
Naoya Hidaka
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Fumito Masui
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Keiko Tosaki
Question Answering Using "Common Sense" and Utility Maximization Principle
Tomoyosi Akiba
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Katunobu Itou
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Atsushi Fujii
RMIT Chinese-English CLIR at NTCIR-4
Ying Zhang
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Phil Vines
R^D^ at NTCIR-4 Web Retrieval Task
Teruhito Kanazawa
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Tomonari Masada
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Atsuhiro Takasu
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Jun Adachi
Report on CLIR Task for the NTCIR-4 Evaluation Campaign
Jacques Savoy
Revisiting Document Length Hypotheses: NTCIR-4 CLIR and Patent Experiments at Patolis
Sumio Fujita
Ricoh in the NTCIR4 CLIR Tasks
Yuichi Kojima
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Hideo Itoh
Rits-QA: List Answer Detection and Context Task with Zero Anaphora Handling
Jun-ichi Fukumoto
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Tatsuhiro Niwa
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Makoto Itoigawa
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Megumi Matsuda
Study on the Combination of Probabilistic and Boolean IR Models for WWW Documents Retrieval
Masaharu Yoshioka
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Makoto Haraguchi
TISS: An Integrated Summarization System for TSC-3
Naoaki Okazaki
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Yutaka Matsuo
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Mitsuru Ishizuka
Text Summarization Challenge 3 - Text Summarization Evaluation at NTCIR Workshop
Tsutomu Hirao
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Manabu Okumura
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Takahiro Fukusima
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Hidetsugu Nanba
Thomson Legal and Regulatory at NTCIR-4: Monolingual and Pivot-Language Retrieval Experiments
Isabelle Moulinier
Toshiba ASKMi at NTCIR-4 QAC2
Tetsuya Sakai
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Yoshimi Saito
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Yumi Ichimura
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Makoto Koyama
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Tomoharu Kokubu
Toshiba BRIDJE at NTCIR-4 CLIR: Monolingual/Bilingual IR and Flexible Feedback
Tetsuya Sakai
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Makoto Koyama
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Akira Kumano
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Toshihiko Manabe
Towards Innovative Evaluation Methodologies for Speech Translation
Michael Paul
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Hiromi Nakaiwa
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Marcello Federico
Two-Stage Patent Retrieval Method Considering Claim Structure
Hisao Mase
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Tadataka Matsubayashi
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Yuichi Ogawa
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Makoto Iwayama
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Tadaaki Oshio
University of Chicago at NTCIR4 CLIR: Multi-Scale Query Expansion
Gina-Anne Levow
User-Focused Multi-Document Summarization with Paragraph Clustering and Sentence-Type Filtering
Yohei Seki
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Koji Eguchi
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Noriko Kando
Using Virtual Document for NTCIR-4 Web Information Retrieval Task
Yinghui Xu
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Kyoji Umemura
Web Document Clustering Using Threshold Selection Partitioning
Minoru Sasaki
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Hiroyuki Shinnou