Information Retrieval Technology: 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2008, Harbin, China, January 15-18, 2008, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4993)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2008, held in Harbin, China, in May 2008. The 39 revised full papers and 43 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. All current issues in information retrieval are addressed: applications, systems, technologies and theoretical aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multi-media data. The papers are organized in topical sections on IR models image retrieval, text classification, chinese language processing, text processing, application of IR, machine learning, taxonomy, IR methods, information extraction, summarization, multimedia, Web IR, and text clustering. Front Matter....Pages - Improving Expertise Recommender Systems by Odds Ratio....Pages 1-9 Exploring the Stability of IDF Term Weighting....Pages 10-21 Completely-Arbitrary Passage Retrieval in Language Modeling Approach....Pages 22-33 Semantic Discriminative Projections for Image Retrieval....Pages 34-43 Comparing Dissimilarity Measures for Content-Based Image Retrieval....Pages 44-50 A Semantic Content-Based Retrieval Method for Histopathology Images....Pages 51-60 Integrating Background Knowledge into RBF Networks for Text Classification....Pages 61-70 An Extended Document Frequency Metric for Feature Selection in Text Categorization....Pages 71-82 Smoothing LDA Model for Text Categorization....Pages 83-94 Fusion of Multiple Features for Chinese Named Entity Recognition Based on CRF Model....Pages 95-106 Semi-joint Labeling for Chinese Named Entity Recognition....Pages 107-116 On the Construction of a Large Scale Chinese Web Test Collection....Pages 117-128 Topic Tracking Based on Keywords Dependency Profile....Pages 129-140 A Dynamic Programming Model for Text Segmentation Based on Min-Max Similarity....Pages 141-152 Pronoun Resolution with Markov Logic Networks....Pages 153-164 Job Information Retrieval Based on Document Similarity....Pages 165-175 Discrimination of Ventricular Arrhythmias Using NEWFM....Pages 176-183 Efficient Feature Selection in the Presence of Outliers and Noises....Pages 184-191 Domain Adaptation for Conditional Random Fields....Pages 192-202 Graph Mutual Reinforcement Based Bootstrapping....Pages 203-212 Combining WordNet and ConceptNet for Automatic Query Expansion: A Learning Approach....Pages 213-224 Improving Hierarchical Taxonomy Integration with Semantic Feature Expansion on Category-Specific Terms....Pages 225-236 HOM: An Approach to Calculating Semantic Similarity Utilizing Relations between Ontologies....Pages 237-245 A Progressive Algorithm for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Based on Dictionary Translation....Pages 246-255 Semi-Supervised Graph-Ranking for Text Retrieval....Pages 256-263 Learnable Focused Crawling Based on Ontology....Pages 264-275 Gram-Free Synonym Extraction Via Suffix Arrays....Pages 276-285 Synonyms Extraction Using Web Content Focused Crawling....Pages 286-297 Blog Post and Comment Extraction Using Information Quantity of Web Format....Pages 298-309 A Lexical Chain Approach for Update-Style Query-Focused Multi-document Summarization....Pages 310-320 GSPSummary: A Graph-Based Sub-topic Partition Algorithm for Summarization....Pages 321-334 An Ontology and SWRL Based 3D Model Retrieval System....Pages 335-344 Multi-Scale TextTiling for Automatic Story Segmentation in Chinese Broadcast News....Pages 345-355 Improving Spamdexing Detection Via a Two-Stage Classification Strategy....Pages 356-364 Clustering Deep Web Databases Semantically....Pages 365-376 PostingRank: Bringing Order to Web Forum Postings....Pages 377-384 A Novel Reliable Negative Method Based on Clustering for Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Examples....Pages 385-392 Term Weighting Evaluation in Bipartite Partitioning for Text Clustering....Pages 393-400 A Refinement Framework for Cross Language Text Categorization....Pages 401-411 Research on Asynchronous Communication-Oriented Page Searching....Pages 412-417 A Novel Fuzzy Kernel C-Means Algorithm for Document Clustering....Pages 418-423 Cov-HGMEM: An Improved Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm....Pages 424-429 Improve Web Image Retrieval by Refining Image Annotations....Pages 430-435 Story Link Detection Based on Event Model with Uneven SVM....Pages 436-441 Video Temporal Segmentation Using Support Vector Machine....Pages 442-447 Using Multiple Combined Ranker for Answering Definitional Questions....Pages 448-453 Route Description Using Natural Language Generation Technology....Pages 454-459 Some Question to Monte-Carlo Simulation in AIB Algorithm....Pages 460-465 An Opinion Analysis System Using Domain-Specific Lexical Knowledge....Pages 466-471 A New Algorithm for Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Tree....Pages 472-477 A Full Distributed Web Crawler Based on Structured Network....Pages 478-483 A Simulated Shallow Dependency Parser Based on Weighted Hierarchical Structure Learning....Pages 484-489 One Optimized Choosing Method of K-Means Document Clustering Center....Pages 490-495 A Model for Evaluating the Quality of User-Created Documents....Pages 496-501 Filter Technology of Commerce-Oriented Network Information....Pages 502-507 IR Interface for Contrasting Multiple News Sites....Pages 508-513 Real-World Mood-Based Music Recommendation....Pages 514-519 News Page Discovery Policy for Instant Crawlers....Pages 520-525 An Alignment-Based Approach to Semi-supervised Relation Extraction Including Multiple Arguments....Pages 526-536 An Examination of a Large Visual Lifelog....Pages 537-542 Automatic Acquisition of Phrase Semantic Rule for Chinese....Pages 543-548 Maximum Entropy Modeling with Feature Selection for Text Categorization....Pages 549-554 Active Learning for Online Spam Filtering....Pages 555-560 Syntactic Parsing with Hierarchical Modeling....Pages 561-566 Extracting Hyponymy Relation between Chinese Terms....Pages 567-572 A No-Word-Segmentation Hierarchical Clustering Approach to Chinese Web Search Results....Pages 573-577 Similar Sentence Retrieval for Machine Translation Based on Word-Aligned Bilingual Corpus....Pages 578-585 An Axiomatic Approach to Exploit Term Dependencies in Language Model....Pages 586-591 A Survey of Chinese Text Similarity Computation....Pages 592-597 Study of Kernel-Based Methods for Chinese Relation Extraction....Pages 598-604 Enhancing Biomedical Named Entity Classification Using Terabyte Unlabeled Data....Pages 605-612 An Effective Relevance Prediction Algorithm Based on Hierarchical Taxonomy for Focused Crawling....Pages 613-619 Short Query Refinement with Query Derivation....Pages 620-625 Applying Completely-Arbitrary Passage for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback in Language Modeling Approach....Pages 626-631 Automatic Generation of Semantic Patterns for User-Interactive Question Answering....Pages 632-637 A Comparison of Textual Data Mining Methods for Sex Identification in Chat Conversations....Pages 638-643 Similarity Computation between Fuzzy Set and Crisp Set with Similarity Measure Based on Distance....Pages 644-649 Experimental Study of Chinese Free-Text IE Algorithm Based on W CA -Selection Using Hidden Markov Model....Pages 650-655 Finding and Using the Content Texts of HTML Pages....Pages 656-662 A Transformation-Based Error-Driven Learning Approach for Chinese Temporal Information Extraction....Pages 663-669 An Entropy-Based Hierarchical Search Result Clustering Method by Utilizing Augmented Information....Pages 670-675 Pattern Mining for Information Extraction Using Lexical, Syntactic and Semantic Information: Preliminary Results....Pages 676-681 Back Matter....Pages -

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, AIRS 2008, held in Harbin, China, in May 2008.

The 39 revised full papers and 43 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. All current issues in information retrieval are addressed: applications, systems, technologies and theoretical aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multi-media data. The papers are organized in topical sections on IR models image retrieval, text classification, chinese language processing, text processing, application of IR, machine learning, taxonomy, IR methods, information extraction, summarization, multimedia, Web IR, and text clustering.