Information Retrieval Technology

1. Front Matter

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2. Session 1: IR Models – I

   1. Relevance Ranking Using Kernels

      • Jun Xu, Hang Li, Chaoliang Zhong

      Pages 1-12

   2. Mining YouTube to Discover Extremist Videos, Users and Hidden Communities

      • Ashish Sureka, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Atul Goyal, Sidharth Chhabra

      Pages 13-24

   3. Title-Based Product Search – Exemplified in a Chinese E-commerce Portal

      • Chien-Wen Chen, Pu-Jen Cheng

      Pages 25-36

   4. Relevance Model Revisited: With Multiple Document Representations

      • Ruey-Cheng Chen, Chiung-Min Tsai, Jieh Hsiang

      Pages 37-48

3. Session 2: Machine Learning for IR – I

   1. Multi-viewpoint Based Similarity Measure and Optimality Criteria for Document Clustering

      • Duc Thang Nguyen, Lihui Chen, Chee Keong Chan

      Pages 49-60

   2. A Text Classifier with Domain Adaptation for Sentiment Classification

      • Wei Chen, Jingyu Zhou

      Pages 61-72

4. Session 3: User Studies and Evaluation

   1. Effective Time Ratio: A Measure for Web Search Engines with Document Snippets

      • Jing He, Baihan Shu, Xiaoming Li, Hongfei Yan

      Pages 73-84

   2. Investigating Characteristics of Non-click Behavior Using Query Logs

      • Ting Yao, Min Zhang, Yiqun Liu, Shaoping Ma, Yongfeng Zhang, Liyun Ru

      Pages 85-96

   3. Score Estimation, Incomplete Judgments, and Significance Testing in IR Evaluation

      • Sri Devi Ravana, Alistair Moffat

      Pages 97-109

5. Poster Session

   1. Multi-Search: A Meta-search Engine Based on Multiple Ontologies

      • Mohammed Maree, Saadat M. Alhashmi, Mohammed Belkhatir, Hidayat Hidayat, Bashar Tahayna

      Pages 110-120

   2. Co-HITS-Ranking Based Query-Focused Multi-document Summarization

      • Po Hu, Donghong Ji, Chong Teng

      Pages 121-130

   3. Advanced Training Set Construction for Retrieval in Historic Documents

      • Andrea Ernst-Gerlach, Norbert Fuhr

      Pages 131-140

   4. Ontology-Driven Semantic Digital Library

      • Shahrul Azman Noah, Nor Afni Raziah Alias, Nurul Aida Osman, Zuraidah Abdullah, Nazlia Omar, Yazrina Yahya et al.

      Pages 141-150

   5. Revisiting Rocchio’s Relevance Feedback Algorithm for Probabilistic Models

      • Zheng Ye, Ben He, Xiangji Huang, Hongfei Lin

      Pages 151-161

   6. When Two Is Better Than One: A Study of Ranking Paradigms and Their Integrations for Subtopic Retrieval

      • Teerapong Leelanupab, Guido Zuccon, Joemon M. Jose

      Pages 162-172

   7. Connecting Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Web Search Process: Analysis Using Search Units

      • Hitomi Saito, Masao Takaku, Yuka Egusa, Hitoshi Terai, Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando

      Pages 173-182

   8. Transliteration Retrieval Model for Cross Lingual Information Retrieval

      • Ea-Ee Jan, Shih-Hsiang Lin, Berlin Chen

      Pages 183-192

   9. The Role of Lexical Ontology in Expanding the Semantic Textual Content of On-Line News Images

      • Shahrul Azman Noah, Datul Aida Ali

      Pages 193-202

   10. Order Preserved Cost-Sensitive Listwise Approach in Learning to Rank

       • Min Lu, MaoQiang Xie, Yang Wang, Jie Liu, YaLou Huang

       Pages 203-210

The Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS) 2010 was the sixth conference in the AIRS series,aiming to bring together international researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and the latest results in information - trieval. The scope of the conference encompassed the theory and practice of all aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video, and multimedia data. AIRS 2010 continued the conference series that grew from the Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) workshop series, started in 1996. It has become a mature venue for information retrieval work, ?nding support from the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR); the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP); ROCLING; and the Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest GrouponInformationFundamentals andAccess Technologies(IPSJSIG-IFAT). This year saw a sharp rise in the number of submissions over the previous year. A total of 120 papers were submitted, representing work by academics and practitioners not only from Asia, but also from Australia, Europe, North America, etc. The high quality of the work made it di?cult for the dedicated programcommitteetodecidewhichpaperstofeatureattheconference.Through adouble-blindreviewingprocess,26submissions(21%)wereacceptedasfulloral papers and 31 (25%) were accepted as short posters. The success of this conferencewas only possible with the support of allof the authorswho submitted papers for review, the programcommittee members who constructively assessedthe submissions, and the registered conference delegates. We thank them for their support of this conference, and for their long-term support of this Asian-centric venue for IR research and development.

• AES
• algorithms
• calculus
• classification
• clustering
• cross-language IR
• digital library
• domain-specific IR
• e-commerce
• entropy
• evaluation
• exploratory search
• folksonomies
• machine learning
• sentiment analysis
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity
• data structures

From the reviews:

“The papers presented in these proceedings of the sixth Asia Information Retrieval Conference (AIRS) represent the work by academics and practitioners from across the world. Twenty-six quality papers on a diverse range of topics related to information retrieval technology are divided into eight sections. … This volume is packed with high quality papers and will be most useful for computer and information technology specialists interested in various aspects of information retrieval.” (Madely du Preez, Online Information Review, Vol. 35 (6), 2011)

• Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Roosevelt Road National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.

  Pu-Jen Cheng

• School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

  Min-Yen Kan

• Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong, China

  Wai Lam

• School of Computing, Computing 1, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

  Preslav Nakov

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