Information Retrieval Technology

1. Session 2A: Machine Learning

   1. Graph Mutual Reinforcement Based Bootstrapping

      • Qi Zhang, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu

      Pages 203-212

2. Session 2B: Taxonomy

   1. Combining WordNet and ConceptNet for Automatic Query Expansion: A Learning Approach

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

      Pages 213-224

   2. Improving Hierarchical Taxonomy Integration with Semantic Feature Expansion on Category-Specific Terms

      • Cheng-Zen Yang, Ing-Xiang Chen, Cheng-Tse Hung, Ping-Jung Wu

      Pages 225-236

   3. HOM: An Approach to Calculating Semantic Similarity Utilizing Relations between Ontologies

      • Zhizhong Liu, Huaimin Wang, Bin Zhou

      Pages 237-245

3. Session 2C: IR Models

   1. A Progressive Algorithm for Cross-Language Information Retrieval Based on Dictionary Translation

      • Song An Yuan, Song Nian Yu

      Pages 246-255

   2. Semi-Supervised Graph-Ranking for Text Retrieval

      • Maoqiang Xie, Jinli Liu, Nan Zheng, Dong Li, Yalou Huang, Yang Wang

      Pages 256-263

   3. Learnable Focused Crawling Based on Ontology

      • Hai-Tao Zheng, Bo-Yeong Kang, Hong-Gee Kim

      Pages 264-275

4. Session 2D: Information Extraction

   1. Gram-Free Synonym Extraction Via Suffix Arrays

      • Minoru Yoshida, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Akira Terada

      Pages 276-285

   2. Synonyms Extraction Using Web Content Focused Crawling

      • Chien-Hsing Chen, Chung-Chian Hsu

      Pages 286-297

   3. Blog Post and Comment Extraction Using Information Quantity of Web Format

      • Donglin Cao, Xiangwen Liao, Hongbo Xu, Shuo Bai

      Pages 298-309

5. Session 3A: Summarization

   1. A Lexical Chain Approach for Update-Style Query-Focused Multi-document Summarization

      • Jing Li, Le Sun

      Pages 310-320

   2. GSPSummary: A Graph-Based Sub-topic Partition Algorithm for Summarization

      • Jin Zhang, Xueqi Cheng, Hongbo Xu

      Pages 321-334

6. Session 3B: Multimedia

   1. An Ontology and SWRL Based 3D Model Retrieval System

      • Xinying Wang, Tianyang Lv, Shengsheng Wang, Zhengxuan Wang

      Pages 335-344

   2. Multi-Scale TextTiling for Automatic Story Segmentation in Chinese Broadcast News

      • Lei Xie, Jia Zeng, Wei Feng

      Pages 345-355

7. Session 3C: Web IR

   1. Improving Spamdexing Detection Via a Two-Stage Classification Strategy

      • Guang-Gang Geng, Chun-Heng Wang, Qiu-Dan Li

      Pages 356-364

   2. Clustering Deep Web Databases Semantically

      • Ling Song, Jun Ma, Po Yan, Li Lian, Dongmei Zhang

      Pages 365-376

   3. PostingRank: Bringing Order to Web Forum Postings

      • Zhi Chen, Li Zhang, Weihua Wang

      Pages 377-384

8. Session 3D: Text Clustering

   1. A Novel Reliable Negative Method Based on Clustering for Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Examples

      • Bangzuo Zhang, Wanli Zuo

      Pages 385-392

   2. Term Weighting Evaluation in Bipartite Partitioning for Text Clustering

      • Chao Qu, Yong Li, Jun Zhu, Peican Huang, Ruifen Yuan, Tianming Hu

      Pages 393-400

   3. A Refinement Framework for Cross Language Text Categorization

      • Ke Wu, Bao-Liang Lu

      Pages 401-411

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.

• Clustering
• association rules
• classification
• data mining
• document analysis
• dynamic programming
• feature selection
• fuzzy neural networks
• fuzzy set
• image databases
• indexing
• information retrieval
• machine learning
• medical image retrieval
• multimedia
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity
• data structures

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