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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

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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
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Preface from the Organizing Chair.
Jun Adachi
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Experiments on Web Retrieval Driven by Spontaneously Spoken Queries.
Tomoyosi Akiba|Atsushi Fujii|Tetsuya Ishikawa|Katunobu Itou
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Question Answering Using "Common Sense" and Utility Maximization Principle.
Tomoyosi Akiba|Katunobu Itou|Atsushi Fujii
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Preliminary Workshop on Evaluation of Geographic Information Retrieval Systems for Web Documents.
Masatoshi Arikawa|Takeshi Sagara|Kouzou Noaki|Hideyuki Fujita
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Overview of the Topical Classification Task at NTCIR-4 WEB.
Koji Eguchi
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Overview of the Informational Retrieval Task at NTCIR-4 WEB.
Koji Eguchi|Keizo Oyama|Akiko Aizawa|Haruko Ishikawa
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Oki QA System for QAC-2.
Masachika Fuchigami|Hiroyuki Ohnuma|Atsushi Ikeno
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Cross-Language IR at University of Tsukuba: Automatic Transliteration for Japanese, English, and Korean.
Atsushi Fujii|Tetsuya Ishikawa
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Document Structure Analysis in Associative Patent Retrieval.
Atsushi Fujii|Tetsuya Ishikawa
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Overview of Patent Retrieval Task at NTCIR-4.
Atsushi Fujii|Makoto Iwayama|Noriko Kando
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Revisiting Document Length Hypotheses: NTCIR-4 CLIR and Patent Experiments at Patolis.
Sumio Fujita
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Multi-Document Summarization Using Document Set Type Classification.
Jun-ichi Fukumoto
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Question Answering Challenge for Five Ranked Answers and List Answers - Overview of NTCIR4 QAC2 Subtask 1 and 2.
Jun-ichi Fukumoto|Tsuneaki Kato|Fumito Masui
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Rits-QA: List Answer Detection and Context Task with Zero Anaphora Handling.
Jun-ichi Fukumoto|Tatsuhiro Niwa|Makoto Itoigawa|Megumi Matsuda
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Giving an Upprebound of the Number of Clusters and Relevant Words in Hierarchical Document Clustering Based on BIC.
Yoshio Fukushige
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Chinese and Korean Topic Search of Japanese News Collections.
Fredric C. Gey
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Question Answering System Based on Expanded Answer Types and Multi-Scores.
Naoya Hidaka|Fumito Masui|Keiko Tosaki
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Text Summarization Challenge 3 - Text Summarization Evaluation at NTCIR Workshop.
Tsutomu Hirao|Manabu Okumura|Takahiro Fukusima|Hidetsugu Nanba
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Question Answering System Using Concept-Based Vector Space Model.
Isrami Ismail|Takashi Yukawa
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NTT's Question Answering System for NTCIR QAC2.
Hideki Isozaki
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NTCIR-4 Patent Retrieval Experiments at RICOH.
Hideo Itoh
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R2D2 at NTCIR-4 Web Retrieval Task.
Teruhito Kanazawa|Tomonari Masada|Atsuhiro Takasu|Jun Adachi
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Preface from the Program Chair.
Noriko Kando
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Overview of the Fourth NTCIR Workshop.
Noriko Kando
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Document Clustering at NTCIR-4 Workshop: Limiting Search Space of the K-Means Method Using Word Occurrence.
Yuji Kaneda|Naonori Ueda|Kazumi Saito
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Combination Approaches in Information Retrieval: Words vs. N-grams and Query Translation vs. Document Translation.
In-Su Kang|Seung-Hoon Na|Jong-Hyeok Lee
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Question Answering Challenge for Information Access Dialogue - Overview of NTCIR4 QAC2 Subtask.
Tsuneaki Kato|Jun-ichi Fukumoto|Fumito Masui
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Navigation Retrieval with Site Anchor Text.
Hideki Kawai|Kenji Tateishi|Toshikazu Fukushima
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CLIR Using Web Directory at NTCIR-4.
Fuminori Kimura|Akira Maeda|Shunsuke Uemura
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Overview of CLIR Task at the Fourth NTCIR Workshop.
Kazuaki Kishida|Kuang-hua Chen|Sukhoon Lee|Kazuko Kuriyama|Noriko Kando|Hsin-Hsi Chen|Sung-Hyon Myaeng|Koji Eguchi
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Prediction of Performance on Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval by Regression Models.
Kazuaki Kishida|Kazuko Kuriyama|Noriko Kando|Koji Eguchi
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Ricoh in the NTCIR4 CLIR Tasks.
Yuichi Kojima|Hideo Itoh
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Invalidity Patent Search System of NTT DATA.
Kazuya Konishi|Akira Kitauchi|Toru Takaki
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A Question Answering System Based on Vector Similarity.
Takuya Kosugi|Hiroya Susuki|Hiroyuki Okamoto|Hiroaki Saito
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GDQA: Graph Driven Question Answering System - NTCIR-4 QAC2 Experiments.
Gakuto Kurata|Naoaki Okazaki|Mitsuru Ishizuka
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NTCIR-4 Chinese, English, Korean Cross Language Retrieval Experiments Using PIRCS.
Kui-Lam Kwok|Norbert Dinstl|Sora Choi
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University of Chicago at NTCIR4 CLIR: Multi-Scale Query Expansion.
Gina-Anne Levow
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Multi-Document Summarization Using Cross-Language Texts.
Jung-Min Lim|In-Su Kang|Jong-Hyeok Lee
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Looking for a Few Good Metrics: Automatic Summarization Evaluation - How Many Samples Are Enough?
Chin-Yew Lin
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Merging Multilingual Information Retrieval Results Based on Prediction of Retrieval Effectiveness.
Wen-Cheng Lin|Hsin-Hsi Chen
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Pseudo-Relevance Feedback and Title Re-Ranking for Chinese Information Retrieval.
Robert W. P. Luk|Kam-Fai Wong
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Two-Stage Patent Retrieval Method Considering Claim Structure.
Hisao Mase|Tadataka Matsubayashi|Yuichi Ogawa|Makoto Iwayama|Tadaaki Oshio
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Evaluating ADM on a Four-Level Relevance Scale Document Set from NTCIR.
Vincenzo Della Mea|Luca Di Gaspero|Stefano Mizzaro
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Japanese Q/A System Using A* Search and Its Improvement - Yokohama National University at QAC2.
Tatsunori Mori
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Multi-Document Summarization Using a Question-Answering Engine - Yokohama National University at TSC3.
Tatsunori Mori|Masanori Nozawa|Yoshiaki Asada
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Thomson Legal and Regulatory at NTCIR-4: Monolingual and Pivot-Language Retrieval Experiments.
Isabelle Moulinier
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Integration of PLSA into Probabilistic CLIR Model - Yokohama National University at NTCIR4 CLIR.
Tetsu Muramatsu|Tatsunori Mori
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Applying Multiple Characteristics and Techniques to Obtain High Levels of Performance in Information Retrieval at NTCIR-4.
Masaki Murata|Qing Ma|Hitoshi Isahara
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Japanese Question-Answering System Using Decreased Adding with Multiple Answers.
Masaki Murata|Masao Utiyama|Hitoshi Isahara
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NTCIR-4 CLIR Experiments at Oki.
Tetsuji Nakagawa|Mihoko Kitamura
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NTCIR-4 WEB Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University - Static/Dynamic Scoring Using Link Structure Analysis and Web Page Grouping.
Hitoshi Nakakubo|Peng Zhang|Takashi Sato
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POSTECH Question-Answering Experiments at NTCIR4-QAC.
Seung-Hoon Na|In-Su Kang|Jong-Hyeok Lee
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Question Answering System QUARK.
Yasuo Nii|Keizo Kawata|Tatsumi Yoshida|Hiroyuki Sakai|Shigeru Masuyama
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Comparison of Feature Usage at TSC-3 Summarization Tasks.
Chikashi Nobata|Satoshi Sekine|Kiyotaka Uchimoto|Hitoshi Isahara
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NTCIR-4 QAC Experiments at Matsushita.
Masako Nomoto|Yoshio Fukushige|Mitsuhiro Sato|Hiroyuki Suzuki
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Are We Making Progress? - An Analysis of NTCIR QAC1 and 2.
Masako Nomoto|Yoshio Fukushige|Mitsuhiro Sato|Hiroyuki Suzuki
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Overlapping Clustering Method Using Local and Global Importance of Feature Terms at NTCIR-4 WEB Task.
Manabu Ohta|Hirokazu Narita|Shigeyoshi Ohno
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An Evaluation Method of Web Search Engines Based on Users' Sense.
Takashi Ohtsuka|Koji Eguchi|Hayato Yamana
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TISS: An Integrated Summarization System for TSC-3.
Naoaki Okazaki|Yutaka Matsuo|Mitsuru Ishizuka
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Overview of WEB Task at the Fourth NTCIR Workshop.
Keizo Oyama|Akiko Aizawa|Haruko Ishikawa
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Overview of the NTCIR-4 WEB Navigational Retrieval Task 1.
Keizo Oyama|Koji Eguchi|Haruko Ishikawa|Akiko Aizawa
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Towards Innovative Evaluation Methodologies for Speech Translation.
Michael Paul|Hiromi Nakaiwa|Marcello Federico
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Justsystem-Clairvoyance CLIR Experiments at NTCIR-4 Workshop.
Yan Qu|Gregory Grefenstette|David A. Hull|David A. Evans|Motoko Ishikawa|Setsuko Nara|Toshiya Ueda|Daisuke Noda|Kousaku Arita|Yuki Funakoshi|Hiroshi Matsuda
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Finding Relevant Answers in Question Answering System Contest.
David Ramamonjisoa
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New Performance Metrics Based on Multigrade Relevance: Their Application to Question Answering.
Tetsuya Sakai
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Toshiba BRIDJE at NTCIR-4 CLIR: Monolingual/Bilingual IR and Flexible Feedback.
Tetsuya Sakai|Makoto Koyama|Akira Kumano|Toshihiko Manabe
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A Multiple-Document Summarization System Introducing User Interaction for Reflecting User's Summarization Need.
Hiroyuki Sakai|Shigeru Masuyama
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Toshiba ASKMi at NTCIR-4 QAC2.
Tetsuya Sakai|Yoshimi Saito|Yumi Ichimura|Makoto Koyama|Tomoharu Kokubu
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Query-Based Multidocument Summarization for Information Retrieval.
Toshihiko Sakurai|Akira Utsumi
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Web Document Clustering Using Threshold Selection Partitioning.
Minoru Sasaki|Hiroyuki Shinnou
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NTCIR-4 PATENT Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University - Gram-Based Passage Index and Essential Words.
Takashi Sato|Nao Hatta
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Report on CLIR Task for the NTCIR-4 Evaluation Campaign.
Jacques Savoy
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User-Focused Multi-Document Summarization with Paragraph Clustering and Sentence-Type Filtering.
Yohei Seki|Koji Eguchi|Noriko Kando
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NYU/CRL QA System for QAC-2.
Satoshi Sekine|Kiyoshi Sudo|Yusuke Shinyama|Chikashi Nobata|Kiyotaka Uchimoto|Hitoshi Isahara
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KUNLP System for NTCIR-4 Korean-English Cross-Language Information Retrieval.
Hee-Cheol Seo|Sang-Bum Kim|Ho-Gun Lim|Hae-Chang Rim
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Aligning Patent Claims with Detailed Descriptions for Readability.
Akihiro Shinmori|Manabu Okumura
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Can Claim Analysis Contribute toward Patent Map Generation?
Akihiro Shinmori|Manabu Okumura|Yuzo Marukawa|Makoto Iwayama
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NAIST QA System for QAC2.
Tetsuro Takahashi|Kozo Nawata|Kentaro Inui|Yuji Matsumoto
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NTT DATA Question-Answering Experiment at the NTCIR-4 QAC2.
Toru Takaki
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Experiments on Patent Retrieval at NTCIR-4 Workshop.
Hironori Takeuchi|Naohiko Uramoto|Koichi Takeda
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CJK Experiments with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at NTCIR-4.
Stephen Tomlinson
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Global and Local Term Expansion for Text Retrieval.
Yuen-Hsien Tseng|Da-Wei Juang|Shiu-Han Chen
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A Web Search Result Classification System Based on the Degree of Suitability for Specialists.
Masanobu Tsuruta|Yoshiyuki Umemura|Hiroyuki Sakai|Shigeru Masuyama
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Patent Map Generation Using Concept-Based Vector Space Model.
Hideyuki Uchida|Atsushi Mano|Takashi Yukawa
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Using Virtual Document for NTCIR-4 Web Information Retrieval Task.
Yinghui Xu|Kyoji Umemura
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Chinese Information Retrieval Based on Terms and Ontology.
Lingpeng Yang|Donghong Ji|Li Tang
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Multiple News Articles Summarization Based on Event Reference Information.
Masaharu Yoshioka|Makoto Haraguchi
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Study on the Combination of Probabilistic and Boolean IR Models for WWW Documents Retrieval.
Masaharu Yoshioka|Makoto Haraguchi
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Applying Language Model into IR Task.
Junlin Zhang|Le Sun|Yongche Zhang|Yufang Sun
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RMIT Chinese-English CLIR at NTCIR-4.
Ying Zhang|Phil Vines
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Experiments on Chinese-English Cross-language Retrieval at NTCIR-4.
Yilu Zhou|Jialun Qin|Michael Chau|Hsinchun Chen