Sixth International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL-2003)

Monday, July 7, 2003
Oral Presentations
9:10-9:35 Improving Summarization Performance by Sentence Compression --- A Pilot Study
Chin-Yew Lin
9:35-10:00 A Practical Text Summarizer by Paragraph Extraction for Thai
Chuleerat Jaruskulchai  and  Canasai Kruengkrai
10:00-10:25 An Approach for Combining Content-based and Collaborative Filters
Qing Li  and  Byeong Man Kim
10:25-10:50 Break
10:50-11:15 A Differential LSI Method for Document Classification
Liang Chen, Naoyuki Tokuda  and  Akira Nagai
11:15-11:40 Poisson Naive Bayes for Text Classification with Feature Weighting
Sang-Bum Kim, Hee-Cheol Seo  and  Hae-Chang Rim
11:40-12:05 Text Classification in Asian Languages without Word Segmentation
Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans  and  Shaojun Wang
12:05-12:30 Feature Selection in Categorizing Procedural Expressions
Mineki Takechi, Takenobu Tokunaga, Yuji Matsumoto  and  Hozumi Tanaka
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-14:55 Learning Bilingual Translations from Comparable Corpora to Cross-Language Information Retrieval:
Hybrid Statistics-based and Linguistics-based Approach
Fatiha Sadat, Masatoshi Yoshikawa  and  Shunsuke Uemura
14:55-15:20 BRIDJE over a Language Barrier: Cross-Language Information Access by Integrating Translation and Retrieval
Tetsuya Sakai, Makoto Koyama, Masaru Suzuki, Akira Kumano  and  Toshihiko Manabe
15:20-15:45 Issues in Pre- and Post-translation Document Expansion: Untranslatable Cognates and Missegmented Words
Gina-Anne Levow
15:45-16:10 Break
16:10-16:35 Very Low Dimensional Latent Semantic Indexing for Local Query Regions
Yinghui Xu  and  Kyoji Umemura
16:35-17:00 AnyQ: Answer Set based Information Retrieval System
Hyo-Jung Oh, Myung-Gil Jang  and  Moon-Soo Chang
17:00-17:25 Dynamic Programming Matching for Large Scale Information Retrieval
Eiko Yamamoto, Masahiro Kishida, Yoshinori Takenami, Yoshiyuki Takeda  and  Kyoji Umemura
Poster Presentations
10:25-17:35 Improving Document Clustering by Utilizing Meta-Data
Kam-Fai Wong, Nam-Kiu Chan  and  Kam-Lai Wong
10:25-17:35 Temporal Ranking for Fresh Information Retrieval
Nobuyoshi Sato, Minoru Uehara  and  Yoshifumi Sakai
10:25-17:35 Extraction of User Preferences from a Few Positive Documents
Byeong Man Kim, Qing Li  and  Jong Wan Kim
10:25-17:35 Keyword-based Document Clustering
Seung-Shik Kang
10:25-17:35 Text Categorization Using Automatically Acquired Domain Ontology
Shih-Hung Wu, Tzong-Han Tsai  and  Wen-Lian Hsu
10:25-17:35 A Sentence Reduction using Syntax Control
Minh Le Nguyen  and  Susumu Horiguchi
10:25-17:35 Cross-Language Information Retrieval Based on Category Matching Between Language Versions of a Web Directory
Fuminori Kimura, Akira Maeda, Masatoshi Yoshikawa  and  Uemura Shunsuke
10:25-17:35 Korean Named Entity Recognition using HMM and CoTraining Model
Euisok Chung, Yi-Gyu Hwang  and  Myung-Gil Jang
10:25-17:35 Question-Answering Based on Virtually Integrated Lexical Knowledge Base
Key-Sun Choi, Jae-Ho Kim, Masaru Miyazaki, Jun Goto  and  Yeun-Bae Kim