| Query expansion with ConceptNet and WordNet : an intrinsic comparison | p. 1 |
| Document similarity search based on manifold-ranking of TextTiles | p. 14 |
| Adapting document ranking to users' preferences using click-through data | p. 26 |
| A PDD-based searching approach for expert finding in intranet information management | p. 43 |
| A supervised learning approach to entity search | p. 54 |
| Hierarchical learning strategy in relation extraction using support vector machines | p. 67 |
| Learning to separate text content and style for classification | p. 79 |
| Using relative entropy for authorship attribution | p. 92 |
| Efficient query evaluation through access-reordering | p. 106 |
| Natural document clustering by clique percolation in random graphs | p. 119 |
| Text clustering with limited user feedback under local metric learning | p. 132 |
| Toward generic title generation for clustered documents | p. 145 |
| Word sense language model for information retrieval | p. 158 |
| Statistical behavior analysis of smoothing methods for language models of Mandarin data sets | p. 172 |
| No tag, a little nesting, and great XML keyword search | p. 187 |
| Improving re-ranking of search results using collaborative filtering | p. 205 |
| Learning to integrate Web catalogs with conceptual relationships in hierarchical thesaurus | p. 217 |
| Discovering authoritative news sources and top news stories | p. 230 |
| Chinese question-answering : comparing monolingual with English-Chinese cross-lingual results | p. 244 |
| Translation of unknown terms via Web mining for information retrieval | p. 258 |
| A cross-lingual framework for Web news taxonomy integration | p. 270 |
| Learning question focus and semantically related features from Web search results for Chinese question classification | p. 284 |
| Improving the robustness to recognition errors in speech input question answering | p. 297 |
| An adjacency model for sentence ordering in multi-document summarization | p. 313 |
| Poor man's stemming : unsupervised recognition of same-stem words | p. 323 |
| NAYOSE : a system for reference disambiguation of proper nouns appearing on Web pages | p. 338 |
| Efficient and robust phrase chunking using support vector machines | p. 350 |
| Statistical and comparative evaluation of various indexing and search models | p. 362 |
| Bootstrap-based comparisons of IR metrics for finding one relevant document | p. 374 |
| Evaluating topic difficulties from the viewpoint of query term expansion | p. 390 |
| Incorporating prior knowledge into multi-label boosting for cross-modal image annotation and retrieval | p. 404 |
| A venation-based leaf image classification scheme | p. 416 |
| Pic-a-topic : gathering information efficiently from recorded TV shows on travel | p. 429 |
| A music retrieval system based on query-by-singing for Karaoke jukebox | p. 445 |
| A semantic fusion approach between medical images and reports using UMLS | p. 460 |
| Automated object extraction for medical image retrieval using the insight toolkit (ITK) | p. 476 |
| Stripe : image feature based on a new grid method and its application in ImageCLEF | p. 489 |
| An academic information retrieval system based on multiagent framework | p. 497 |
| Comparing Web logs : sensitivity analysis and two types of cross-analysis | p. 508 |
| Concept propagation based on visual similarity | p. 514 |
| Query structuring with two-stage term dependence in the Japanese language | p. 522 |
| Automatic expansion of abbreviations in Chinese news text | p. 530 |
| A novel ant-based clustering approach for document clustering | p. 537 |
| Evaluating scalability in information retrieval with multigraded relevance | p. 545 |
| Text mining for medical documents using a hidden Markov model | p. 553 |
| Multi-document summarization based on unsupervised clustering | p. 560 |
| A content-based 3D graphic information retrieval system | p. 567 |
| Query expansion for contextual question using genetic algorithms | p. 574 |
| Fine-grained named entity recognition using conditional random fields for question answering | p. 581 |
| A hybrid model for sentence ordering in extractive multi-document summarization | p. 588 |
| Automatic query type identification based on click through information | p. 593 |
| Japanese question-answering system for contextual questions using simple connection method, decreased adding with multiple answers, and selection by ratio | p. 601 |
| Multi-document summarization using a clustering-based hybrid strategy | p. 608 |
| A Web user preference perception system based on fuzzy data mining method | p. 615 |
| An analysis on topic features and difficulties based on Web navigational retrieval experiments | p. 625 |
| Towards automatic domain classification of technical terms : estimating domain specificity of a term using the Web | p. 633 |
| Evaluating score normalization methods in data fusion | p. 642 |
| WIDIT : integrated approach to HARD topic search | p. 649 |
| Automatic query expansion using data manifold | p. 659 |
| An empirical comparison of translation disambiguation techniques for Chinese-English cross-language information retrieval | p. 666 |
| Web mining for lexical context-specific paraphrasing | p. 673 |
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