Oral Presentation (13)

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 (Toshiba Corporate R&D Center)

Text Classification in Asian Languages without Word Segmentation
Fuchun Peng (University of Waterloo, University of Massachusetts), Xiangji Huang (University of Waterloo), Dale Schuurmans (University of Waterloo) and Shaojun Wang (University of Waterloo, University of Toronto)

Very Low Dimensional Latent Semantic Indexing for Local Query Regions
Yinghui Xu and Kyoji Umemura (Toyohashi University of Tech.)

Dynamic Programming Matching for Large Scale Information Retrieval
Eiko Yamamoto (Communications Research Lab.), Masahiro Kishida (Sumitomo Electric Information Systems Co., Ltd), Yoshinori Takenami (Sumitomo Electric Information Systems Co., Ltd), Yoshiyuki Takeda (Toyohashi University of Tech.) and Kyoji Umemura (Toyohashi University of Tech.)

Poisson Naive Bayes for Text Classification with Feature Weighting
Sang-Bum Kim, Hee-Cheol Seo and Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University)

An Approach for Combining Content-based and Collaborative Filters
Qing Li and Byeong Man Kim (Kumoh National Institute of Tech.)

A Differential LSI Method for Document Classification (Extended Abstract)

Liang Chen (University of Northern British Columbia), Naoyuki Tokuda (Sunflare Company) and Akira Nagai(Utsunomiya University)

AnyQ: Answer Set based Information Retrieval System
Hyo-Jung Oh (ETRI), Myung-Gil Jang (ETRI) and Moon-Soo Chang (Seokyeong University)

Learning Bilingual Translations from Comparable Corpora to Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Hybrid Statistics-based and Linguistics-based Approach
Fatiha Sadat (NAIST), Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nagoya University) and Shunsuke Uemura (NAIST)

Feature Selection in Categorizing Procedural Expressions
Mineki Takechi (Fujitsu Ltd., NAIST), Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Tech.), Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST) and Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Tech.)

Improving Summarization Performance by Sentence Compression - A Pilot Study
Chin-Yew Lin (University of Southern California/Information Sciences Institute)

A Practical Text Summarizer by Paragraph Extraction for Thai
Canasai Kruengkrai and Chuleerat Jaruskulchai (Kasetsart University)

Issues in Pre- and Post-translation Document Expansion: Untranslatable Cognates and Missegmented Words
Gina-Anne Levow (University of Chicago)

Poster Presentation (9)

Improving Document Clustering by Utilizing Meta-Data

Kam-Fai Wong , Nam-Kiu Chan and Kam-Lai Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Temporal Ranking for Fresh Information Retrieval

Nobuyoshi Sato (Toyo University), Minoru Uehara (Toyo University) and Yoshifumi Sakai (Tohoku University)

Extraction of User Preferences from a Few Positive Documents

Byeong Man Kim (Kumoh National Institute of Tech.), Qing Li (Kumoh National Institute of Tech.) and Jong-Wan Kim (Taegu University)

Keyword-based Document Clustering

Seung-Shik Kang (Kookmin University & AITrc)

Text Categorization Using Automatically Acquired Domain Ontology

Shih-Hung Wu, Tzong-Han Tsai and Wen-Lian Hsu (Academia Sinica)

A Sentence Reduction Using Syntax Control

Nguyen Minh Le and Susumu Horiguchi (JAIST)

Cross-Language Information Retrieval Based on Category Matching Between Language Versions of a Web Directory

Fuminori Kimura (NAIST), Akira Maeda (Ritsumeikan University), Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Nagoya University) and Shunsuke Uemura (NAIST)

Korean Named Entity Recognition using HMM and Co Training Model

Euisok Chung, Yi-Gyu Hwang and Myung-Gil Jang (ETRI)

Question-Answering Based on Virtually Integrated Lexical Knowledge Base

Key-Sun Choi (KAIST), Jae-Ho Kim (KAIST), Masaru Miyazaki (NHK STRL), Jun Goto (NHK STRL) and Yeun-Bae Kim (NHK STRL)