Table of Contents

• University of Tokyo/RICOH at NTCIR-3 Web Retrieval TaskMasashi Toyoda, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Hiroko Mano, Hideo Itoh, Yasushi Ogawa. [doi]
• RitsQA: Ritsumeikan Question Answering System used for QAC-1Jun-ichi Fukumoto, Tetsuya Endo, Tatsuhiro Niwa. [doi]
• Applying Multiple Characteristics and Techniques to Obtain High Levels of Performance in Information RetrievalMasaki Murata, Qing Ma, Hitoshi Isahara. [doi]
• NTT DATA Question-Answering Experiment at the NTCIR-3 QACToru Takaki, Yoshio Eriguchi. [doi]
• Answer Extraction System by Question Type from Query-Biased Summary for Newspaper ArticlesYohei Seki. [doi]
• Experiment on Pseudo Relevance Feedback Method Using Taylor Formula at NTCIR-3 Patent Retrieval TaskKazuaki Kishida. [doi]
• Characteristics of the Korean Test Collection for CLIR in NTCIR-3Sukhoon Lee, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Hyeon Kim, Jerry H. Seo, Buil Lee, Sukhyun Cho. [doi]
• Overview of Patent Retrieval Task at NTCIR-3Makoto Iwayama, Atsushi Fujii, Noriko Kando, Akihiko Takano. [doi]
• Question Answering Challenge (QAC-1): An Evaluation of Question Answering Task at NTCIRWorkshop 3Jun-ichi Fukumoto, Tsuneaki Kato, Fumito Masui. [doi]
• Different Retrieval Models and Hybrid Term IndexingRobert W. P. Luk. [doi]
• A Question-Answering System Using Unit Estimation and Probabilistic Near-Terms IRMasaki Murata, Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara. [doi]
• Deciding Indexing Strings with Statistical AnalysisYoshiyuki Takeda, Kyoji Umemura, Eiko Yamamoto. [doi]
• Toshiba KIDS at NTCIR-3: Japanese and English-Japanese IRTetsuya Sakai, Makoto Koyama, Masaru Suzuki, Toshihiko Manabe. [doi]
• Rhetorical Structure Analysis of Japanese Patent Claims using Cue PhrasesAkihiro Shinmori, Manabu Okumura, Yuzo Marukawa, Makoto Iwayama. [doi]
• Chinese Language IR based on Term ExtractionDonghong Ji, Lingpeng Yang, Yu Nie. [doi]
• OASIS at NTCIR-3: Monolingual IR TaskVitaliy Kluev. [doi]
• NTCIR-3 Cross-Language IR Experiments at ULISAtsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa. [doi]
• NTT DTEC at Patent Retrieval TaskYohichi Nakatani, Koutarou Takada, Michihiro Isoda, Manabu Okumura, Makoto Iwayama, Yuzo Marukawa, Akihiro Shinmori. [doi]
• NTCIR-3 Chinese, Cross Language Retrieval Experiments Using PIRCSK. L. Kwok. [doi]
• QUARK: A Question and Answering System using Newspaper Corpus as a Knowledge SourceKeizo Kawata, Hiroyuki Sakai, Shigeru Masuyama. [doi]
• NTCIR-3 WEB Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University - Towards Index Partitioning and Parallel RetrievalTakashi Sato, Yukikazu Kyo, Kihei Kobata. [doi]
• Thomson Legal and Regulatory at NTCIR-3: Japanese, Chinese and English Retrieval ExperimentsIsabelle Moulinier, Hugo Molina-Salgado, Peter Jackson. [doi]
• Simple Query Translation Methods for Korean-English and Korean-Chinese CLIR in NTCIR ExperimentsMyung-Gil Jang, Pyung Kim, Yun Jin, Sukhyun Cho, Sung-Hyon Myaeng. [doi]
• Information Gain Ratio meets Maximal Marginal Relevance - A method of Summarization for Multiple DocumentsTatsunori Mori, Takuro Sasaki. [doi]
• Overview of the Third NTCIR WorkshopNoriko Kando. [doi]
• CMU in Cross-Language Information Retrieval at NTCIR-3Yiming Yang, Nianli Ma. [doi]
• ISCAS at NTCIR-3: Monolingual, Bilingual and MultiLingual IR TasksJunlin Zhang, Le Sun, Weimin Qu, Lin Du, Yufang Sun, Yangxing Fan, Zhigen Lin. [doi]
• A Summarization System with Categorization of Document SetsChikashi Nobata, Satoshi Sekine, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hitoshi Isahara. [doi]
• NYU/CRL QA System, QAC Question Analysis and CRL QA DataSatoshi Sekine, Kiyoshi Sudo, Yusuke Shinyama, Chikashi Nobata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hitoshi Isahara. [doi]
• NTCIR-3 CLIR Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University - Comparison of Gram-based IndicesTakashi Sato, Koto Han. [doi]
• NTCIR-3 Patent Retrieval Experiments at ULISAtsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa. [doi]
• Two Different Summarization Methods at NTCIR3-TSC2: Coverage Oriented and Focus OrientedNaoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Naohiro Matsumura, Hironori Tomobe, Mitsuru Ishizuka. [doi]
• Text Summarization Challenge 2: Text Summarization Evaluation at NTCIR Workshop3Takahiro Fukusima, Manabu Okumura, Hidetsugu Nanba. [doi]
• A Experiment Report about a Web Information Retrieval System for 3rd NTCIR Web TaskIwao Nagashiro, Dafeng Cao. [doi]
• Exploitation of Newspaper-article Characteristics for Article Retrieval and Answer Extraction in QAC Task 2Ruck Thawonmas, Takayuki Tomoike, Tomohiko Kawachi, Akio Sakamoto. [doi]
• Evaluation of Web Retrieval Methods Using Anchor TextKenji Tateishi, Hideki Kawai, Susumu Akamine, Katsushi Matsuda, Toshikazu Fukushima. [doi]
• Overview of CLIR Task at the Third NTCIR WorkshopKuang-Hua Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Noriko Kando, Kazuko Kuriyama, Sukhoon Lee, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Kazuaki Kishida, Koji Eguchi, Hyeon Kim. [doi]
• The Development and Evolution of TREC and DUCDonna Harman. [doi]
• Unsupervised Acquisition of Knowledge about the Abbreviation Possibility of some of Multiple Phrases modifying the same Verb/NounHiroyuki Sakai, Shigeru Masuyama. [doi]
• Web Search Experiments Using OASISVitaliy Kluev. [doi]
• TMat NTCIR-3Stephen Tomlinson. [doi]
• Study on Merging Multiple Results from Information Retrieval SystemHiromi Ozaku, Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara, Yasuyuki Kono, Masatsugu Kidode. [doi]
• Message from the Program ChairNoriko Kando. [doi]
• A* Search Algorithm for Question AnsweringTatsunori Mori, Tomohiro Ohta, Katsuyuki Fujihata, Ryutaro Kumon. [doi]
• Message from the Organizing ChairJun Adachi. [doi]
• Question and Answering System based on Predicate-Argument MatchingDaisuke Kawahara, Nobuhiro Kaji, Sadao Kurohashi. [doi]
• Experiments on Cross-language and Patent Retrieval at NTCIR-3 WorkshopAitao Chen, Fredric C. Gey. [doi]
• Description of NTU Approach to NTCIR3 Multilingual Information RetrievalWen-Cheng Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen. [doi]
• Uniform Indexing and Retrieval Scheme for Chinese, Japanese, and KoreanDa-Wei Juang, Yuen-Hsien Tseng. [doi]
• MAIMAI: A Question Answering System at NTCIR3 QAC-1Fumito Masui, Masayuki Miyaguchi. [doi]
• Evaluating Speech-Driven IR in the NTCIR-3 Web Retrieval TaskAtsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou. [doi]
• Experiments on Cross-language and Patent Retrieval at NTCIR-3 WorkshopAitao Chen, Fredric C. Gey. [doi]
• Web IR Research: Can we do it without the data?Amit Singhal. [doi]
• NTT/NAIST's Text Summarization Systems for TSC-2Tsutomu Hirao, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Hideki Isozaki, Yutaka Sasaki, Eisaku Maeda. [doi]
• NTCIR-3 CLIR Experiments at MSRAHongzhao He, Jianfeng Gao. [doi]
• KUNLP System for NTCIR-3 English-Korean Cross-Language Information RetrievalHee-Cheol Seo, Sang-Bum Kim, Baeg-Il Kim, Hae-Chang Rim, Sang-Zoo Lee. [doi]
• Sentence Extraction by tf/idf and Position Weighting from Newspaper ArticlesYohei Seki. [doi]
• Knowledge-light Asian Language Text Retrieval at the NTCIR-3 WorkshopPaul McNamee. [doi]
• Patent Search: A Case Study of Cross-DB Associative SearchYoshiki Niwa, Toru Hisamitsu, Shingo Nishioka, Osamu Imaichi, Masakazu Fujio. [doi]
• POSNIR: Probabilistic Natural Language Information Retrieval SystemChangki Lee, Seungwoo Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee. [doi]
• NTT's QA Systems for NTCIR QAC-1Yutaka Sasaki, Hideki Isozaki, Tsutomu Hirao, Koji Kokuryou, Eisaku Maeda. [doi]
• Term Distillation for Cross-DB RetrievalHideo Itoh, Hiroko Mano, Yasushi Ogawa. [doi]
• Oki QA System for QAC-1Atsushi Ikeno, Hiroyuki Ohnuma. [doi]
• Towards Speech-Driven Question Answering: Experiments Using the NTCIR-3 Question Answering CollectionTomoyosi Akiba, Katunobu Itou, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa. [doi]
• SiteQ/J: A Question Answering System for JapaneseSeungwoo Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee. [doi]
• Applying Structural Matching and ParaphrasingTetsuro Takahashi, Kozo Nawata, Kentaro Inui, Shinya Kouda. [doi]
• NTCIR-3 QAC Experiments at MatsushitaMasako Nomoto, Mitsuhiro Sato, Hiroyuki Suzuki. [doi]
• Waterloo at NTCIR-3: Using Self-supervised Word SegmentationXiangji Huang, Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans, Nick Cercone. [doi]
• English-Japanese Cross-lingual Query Expansion Using Random Indexing of Aligned Bilingual Text DataMagnus Sahlgren, Preben Hansen, Jussi Karlgren. [doi]
• Trainable Automatic Text Summarization Using Segmentation of SentenceKai Ishikawa, Shinichi Ando, Shinichi Doi, Akitoshi Okumura. [doi]
• Text Summarization based on Itemized Sentences and Similar Parts Detection between DocumentsJunichi Fukumoto. [doi]
• Using the Diff Command in Patent DocumentsMasaki Murata, Hitoshi Isahara. [doi]
• NTCIR-3 PAT Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University: Long Gram-based Index and Essential WordsTakashi Sato, Tomohiko Satomoto, Koto Han. [doi]
• Overview of the Web Retrieval Task at the Third NTCIR WorkshopKoji Eguchi, Keizo Oyama, Emi Ishida, Noriko Kando, Kazuko Kuriyama. [doi]