Information Retrieval Technology

1. Front Matter

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2. Information Organization

   1. Automatic Word Clustering for Text Categorization Using Global Information

      • Chen Wenliang, Chang Xingzhi, Wang Huizhen, Zhu Jingbo, Yao Tianshun

      Pages 1-11

   2. Text Classification Using Web Corpora and EM Algorithms

      • Chen-Ming Hung, Lee-Feng Chien

      Pages 12-23

   3. Applying CLIR Techniques to Event Tracking

      • Nianli Ma, Yiming Yang, Monica Rogati

      Pages 24-35

   4. Document Clustering Using Linear Partitioning Hyperplanes and Reallocation

      • Canasai Kruengkrai, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Hitoshi Isahara

      Pages 36-47

3. Automatic Summarization

   1. Summary Generation Centered on Important Words

      • Dongli Han, Takashi Noguchi, Tomokazu Yago, Minoru Harada

      Pages 48-60

   2. Sentence Compression Learned by News Headline for Displaying in Small Device

      • Kong Joo Lee, Jae-Hoon Kim

      Pages 61-70

   3. Automatic Text Summarization Using Two-Step Sentence Extraction

      • Wooncheol Jung, Youngjoong Ko, Jungyun Seo

      Pages 71-81

   4. Sentence Extraction Using Time Features in Multi-document Summarization

      • Jung-Min Lim, In-Su Kang, Jae-Hak J. Bae, Jong-Hyeok Lee

      Pages 82-93

4. Alignment/Paraphrasing in IR

   1. Extracting Paraphrases of Japanese Action Word of Sentence Ending Part from Web and Mobile News Articles

      • Hiroshi Nakagawa, Hidetaka Masuda

      Pages 94-105

   2. Improving Transliteration with Precise Alignment of Phoneme Chunks and Using Contextual Features

      • Wei Gao, Kam-Fai Wong, Wai Lam

      Pages 106-117

   3. Combining Sentence Length with Location Information to Align Monolingual Parallel Texts

      • Weigang Li, Ting Liu, Sheng Li

      Pages 118-128

5. Web Search

   1. Effective Topic Distillation with Key Resource Pre-selection

      • Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma

      Pages 129-140

   2. Efficient PageRank with Same Out-Link Groups

      • Yizhou Lu, Xuezheng Liu, Hua Li, Benyu Zhang, Wensi Xi, Zheng Chen et al.

      Pages 141-152

   3. Literal-Matching-Biased Link Analysis

      • Yinghui Xu, Kyoji Umemura

      Pages 153-164

6. Linguistic Issues in IR

   1. Multilingual Relevant Sentence Detection Using Reference Corpus

      • Ming-Hung Hsu, Ming-Feng Tsai, Hsin-Hsi Chen

      Pages 165-177

   2. A Bootstrapping Approach for Geographic Named Entity Annotation

      • Seungwoo Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee

      Pages 178-189

   3. Using Verb Dependency Matching in a Reading Comprehension System

      • Kui Xu, Helen Meng

      Pages 190-201

7. Document/Query Models

   1. Sense Matrix Model and Discrete Cosine Transform

      • Bing Swen

      Pages 202-214

   2. Query Model Estimations for Relevance Feedback in Language Modeling Approach

      • Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, Kyonghi Moon, Jong-Hyeok Lee

      Pages 215-226

TheAsiaInformationRetrievalSymposium(AIRS)wasestablishedbytheAsian information retrieval community after the successful series of Information - trieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) workshops held in six di?erent locations in Asia, starting from 1996. While the IRAL workshops had their focus on inf- mation retrieval problems involving Asian languages, AIRS covers a wider scope of applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multimedia data. This extension of the scope re?ects and fosters increasing research activities in information retrieval in this region and the growing need for collaborations across subdisciplines. We are very pleased to report that we saw a sharp increase in the number of submissions and their quality, compared to the IRAL workshops. We received 106papersfromninecountriesinAsiaandNorthAmerica,fromwhich28papers (26%) were presented in oral sessions and 38 papers in poster sessions (36%). It was a great challenge for the Program Committee to select the best among the excellent papers. The low acceptance rates witness the success of this year’s conference. After a long discussion between the AIRS 2004 Steering Committee and Springer, the publisher agreed to publish our proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, which is SCI-indexed. We feel that this strongly attests to the excellent quality of the papers.

• Alignment
• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Web information retrieval
• XML
• algorithms
• calculus
• clustering
• document analysis
• image retrieval
• information retrieval
• modeling
• organization
• query languages
• text categorization
• text classification
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity
• data structures

• School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, Daejeon, Korea

  Sung Hyon Myaeng

• The Key Laboratory of Power System Protection and Dynamic Security Monitoring and Control under Ministry of Education, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China

  Ming Zhou

• Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Shatin, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  Kam-Fai Wong

• 5F, Beijing Sigma Center, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

  Hong-Jiang Zhang

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