Table of Contents

• What's New at TREC: Blog and Legal Discovery Search at TREC-2006Ian Soboroff. [doi]
• A low-resources approach to Opinion Analysis: Machine Learning and Simple ApproachesDavid Kirk Evans. [doi]
• Test collections for allMark Sanderson. [doi]
• Opinmine - Opinion Analysis System by CUHK for NTCIR-6 Pilot TaskRuifeng Xu, Kam-Fai Wong, Yunqing Xia. [doi]
• Using the K-Nearest Neighbor Method and SMART Weighting in the Patent Document Categorization Subtask at NTCIR-6Masaki Murata, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Tamotsu Shirado, Hitoshi Isahara. [doi]
• Integrating Content and Citation Information for the NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval TaskAtsushi Fujii. [doi]
• JAVELIN III: Cross-Lingual Question Answering from Japanese and Chinese DocumentsTeruko Mitamura, Frank Lin, Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Matthew W. Bilotti, Andrew Hazen Schlaikjer, Eric Nyberg. [doi]
• Non-factoid Question Answering Experiments at NTCIR-6: Towards Answer Type Detection for Realworld QuestionsJunta Mizuno, Tomoyosi Akiba, Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou. [doi]
• Search Between Chinese and Japanese Text CollectionsFredric C. Gey. [doi]
• Question Answering System for Non-factoid Type Questions and Automatic Evaluation based on BE MethodJun-ichi Fukumoto. [doi]
• Crosslingual Opinion Extraction from Author and Authority Viewpoints at NTCIR-6Yohei Seki. [doi]
• QA System Metis Based on Semantic Graph Matching at NTCIR 6Minoru Harada, Yuhei Kato, Kazuaki Takehara, Masatsuna Kawamata, Kazunori Sugimura, Junichi Kawaguchi. [doi]
• Extraction of Statistical Terms and Co-occurrence Networks from NewspapersHaruka Saito, Hideki Kawai, Masaaki Tsuchida, Hironori Mizuguchi, Dai Kusui. [doi]
• A System for Answering Non-Factoid Japanese Questions by Using Passage Retrieval Weighted Based on Type of AnswerMasaki Murata, Sachiyo Tsukawaki, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Qing Ma, Hitoshi Isahara. [doi]
• Extracting and Ranking Question-Focused Terms Using the Titles of Wikipedia ArticlesYi-Che Chan, Kuan-Hsi Chen, Wen-Hsiang Lu. [doi]
• Overview of the Patent Retrieval Task at the NTCIR-6 WorkshopAtsushi Fujii, Makoto Iwayama, Noriko Kando. [doi]
• Visualization of Earthquake Trend Information from MuST CorpusYasufumi Takama. [doi]
• Improving translation accuracy in web-based translation extractionChengye Lu, Yue Xu, Shlomo Geva. [doi]
• CLEF: Ongoing Activities and Plans for the FutureMaristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro, Carol Peters. [doi]
• An Overview of the 4th Question Answering Challenge (QAC-4) at NTCIR Workshop 6Jun-ichi Fukumoto, Tsuneaki Kato, Fumito Masui, Tatsunori Mori. [doi]
• Information Retrieval Using Label Propagation Based RankingLingpeng Yang, Donghong Ji, Yu Nie. [doi]
• Extraction of important numerical pairs from text documents and visualization of themMasaki Murata, Koji Ichii, Qing Ma, Tamotsu Shirado, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Sachiyo Tsukawaki, Hitoshi Isahara. [doi]
• F-term Classification System Using K-Nearest Neighbor MethodKazuya Konishi, Toru Takaki. [doi]
• NTCIR-6 Monolingual Chinese and English-Chinese Cross Language Retrieval Experiments using PIRCSKui-Lam Kwok, Norbert Dinstl. [doi]
• Using Opinion Scores of Words for Sentence-Level Opinion ExtractionLun-Wei Ku, Yong-Sheng Lo, Hsin-Hsi Chen. [doi]
• A Monolithic Approach and a Type-by-Type Approach for Non-Factoid Question-answering - Yokohama National University at NTCIR-6 QACTatsunori Mori, Mitsuru Sato, Madoka Ishioroshi, Yugo Nishikawa, Shigenori Nakano, Kei Kimura. [doi]
• NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval Experiments at HitachiHisao Mase, Makoto Iwayama. [doi]
• NTCIR-6 Experiments using Pattern Matched Translation ExtractionDong Zhou, Mark Truran, Tim J. Brailsford, Helen Ashman. [doi]
• Statistical Machine Translation based Passage Retrieval for Cross-Lingual Question Answering --- Experiments at NTCIR-6Tomoyosi Akiba, Kei Shimizu, Atsushi Fujii, Katunobu Itou. [doi]
• Utilizing Entity Relation to Bridge the Language Gap in Cross-Lingual Question Answering SystemMin Wu 0004, Tomek Strzalkowski. [doi]
• Expansion of Multimodal Summarization for Trend Information -- Report on the first and second cycles of the MuST Workshop --Tsuneaki Kato, Mitsunori Matsushita, Noriko Kando. [doi]
• Overview of Opinion Analysis Pilot Task at NTCIR-6Yohei Seki, David Kirk Evans, Lun-Wei Ku, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Noriko Kando, Chin-Yew Lin. [doi]
• Leveraging Category-based LSI for Patent RetrievalMasaki Aono. [doi]
• Appraisal Extraction for News Opinion Analysis at NTCIR-6Kenneth Bloom, Sterling Stuart Stein, Shlomo Argamon. [doi]
• Monolingual Experiments with Far-East Languages in NTCIR-6Samir Abdou, Jacques Savoy. [doi]
• Overview of Classification Subtask at NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval TaskMakoto Iwayama, Atsushi Fujii, Noriko Kando. [doi]
• ISCAS in Opinion Analysis Pilot Task: Experiments with sentimental dictionary based classifier and CRF modelRuihong Huang, Le Sun, Long-xi Pan. [doi]
• Sampling Precision to Depth 9000: Evaluation Experiments at NTCIR-6Stephen Tomlinson. [doi]
• Using Wikipedia to Translate OOV Term on MLIRChen-Yu Su, Tien-Chien Lin, Shih-Hung Wu. [doi]
• NCU in Bilingual Information Retrieval Experiments at NTCIR-6Yu-Chieh Wu, Kun-Chang Tsai, Jie Chi Yang. [doi]
• Chinese Information Retrieval Based on Document ExpansionTingting He, Li Li, Guozhong Qu, Yong Zhang. [doi]
• A Passage Retrieval System using Query Expansion and EmphasisHiroki Tanioka, Kenichi Yamamoto. [doi]
• Heuristic and Syntactic Scoring for Cross-language Question AnsweringLisa Ballesteros, Xiaoyan Li. [doi]
• F-term classification Experiments at NTCIR-6 for JustsytemsMasaki Rikitoku. [doi]
• Using Unigram and Bigram Language Models for Monolingual and Cross-Language IRLixin Shi, Jian-Yun Nie. [doi]
• Term Weighting Classification System Using the Chi-square Statistic for the Classification Subtask at NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval TaskKotaro Hashimoto, Takashi Yukawa. [doi]
• Three-Phase Opinion Analysis System at NTCIR-6Hironori Mizuguchi, Masaaki Tsuchida, Dai Kusui. [doi]
• Query Expansion using an Automatically Constructed ThesaurusHidetsugu Nanba. [doi]
• NTCIR-6 PrefaceNoriko Kando. [doi]
• Japanese Opinion Extraction System for Japanese Newspapers Using Machine -Learning MethodToshiyuki Kanamaru, Masaki Murata, Hitoshi Isahara. [doi]
• Cornell System Description for the NTCIR-6 Opinion TaskEric Breck, Yejin Choi, Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie. [doi]
• ICT-DCU Question Answering Task at NTCIR6Sen Zhang, Bin Wang, Gareth J. F. Jones. [doi]
• POSTECH at NTCIR-6 English Patent Retrieval SubtaskJungi Kim, Yeha Lee, Seung-Hoon Na, Jong-Hyeok Lee. [doi]
• Overview of CLIR Task at the Sixth NTCIR WorkshopKazuaki Kishida, Kuang-Hua Chen, Sukhoon Lee, Kazuko Kuriyama, Noriko Kando, Hsin-Hsi Chen. [doi]
• How We Did How, What and Why - HOMIO's Participation in QAC4 of NTCIR-6Yasutomo Kimura, Kenji Ishida, Hirotaka Imaoka, Fumito Masui, Keisuke Kameyama, Rafal Rzepka, Kenji Araki. [doi]
• Opinion Analysis based on Lexical Clues and their ExpansionYoungho Kim, Sung-Hyon Myaeng. [doi]
• AINLP at NTCIR-6: Evaluations for Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Information RetrievalChen-Hsin Cheng, Reuy-Jye Shue, Hung-Lin Lee, Shu-Yu Hsieh, Guann-Cyun Yeh, Guo-Wei Bian. [doi]
• Overview of the Sixth NTCIR WorkshopNoriko Kando. [doi]
• NTCIR-6 CLIR Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University - Term Expansion Using Online Dictionaries and Weighting Score by Term VarietyTakashi Sato. [doi]
• NTCIR-6 Monolingual Chinese and English-Chinese Cross-Lingual Question Answering Experiments using PIRCSKui-Lam Kwok, Peter Deng, Norbert Dinstl. [doi]
• NTT's Question Answering System for NTCIR-6 QAC-4Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Hideki Isozaki. [doi]
• On the Robustness of Document Re-Ranking Techniques: A Comparison of Label Propagation, KNN, and Relevance FeedbackYuen-Hsien Tseng, Chen-Yang Tsai, Ze-Jing Chuang. [doi]
• Invalidity Search for USPTO Patent Documents Using Different Patent SurrogatesYuen-Hsien Tseng, Chen-Yang Tsai, Da-Wei Juang. [doi]
• Extraction and Visualization of Trend Information from Newspaper Articles and BlogsHidetsugu Nanba, Nao Okuda, Manabu Okumura. [doi]
• JAVELIN III: Answering Non-Factoid Questions in JapaneseHideki Shima, Teruko Mitamura. [doi]
• Chinese-Chinese and English-Chinese Question Answering with ASQA at NTCIR-6 CLQACheng-Wei Lee 0001, Min-Yuh Day, Cheng-Lung Sung, Yi-Hsun Lee, Mike Tian-Jian Jiang, Chia-Wei Wu, Cheng-Wei Shih, Yu-Ren Chen, Wen-Lian Hsu. [doi]
• NTCIR-6 at Maryland: Chinese Opinion Analysis Pilot TaskYejun Wu, Douglas W. Oard. [doi]
• ISCAS in CLIR at NTCIR-6: Experiments with MT and PRFRuihong Huang, Le Sun, Jing Li, Long-xi Pan, Junlin Zhang. [doi]
• NTCIR-6 CLIR-J-J Experiments at Yahoo! JapanSumio Fujita. [doi]
• POSTECH at NTCIR-6: Combining Evidences of Multiple Term Extractions for Mono-lingual and Cross-lingual Retrieval in Korean and JapaneseSeung-Hoon Na, Jungi Kim, Yeha Lee, Jong-Hyeok Lee. [doi]
• NTCIR-6 CLQA Question Answering Experiments at the Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJosef R. Novak, Edward W. D. Whittaker, Matthias H. Heie, Shuichiro Imai, Sadaoki Furui. [doi]
• Applying Multiple Characteristics and Techniques in the NICT Information Retrieval System at NTCIR-6Masaki Murata, Jong-Hoon Oh, Qing Ma, Hitoshi Isahara. [doi]
• Two-Pass Named Entity Classification for Cross Language Question AnsweringYu-Chieh Wu, Kun-Chang Tsai, Jie Chi Yang. [doi]
• OASIS at NTCIR-6: On-line Query Translation for Chinese-Japanese Cross-Lingual Information RetrievalVitaly Klyuev. [doi]
• Multi-label Patent Classification at NTT Communication Science LaboratoriesAkinori Fujino, Hideki Isozaki. [doi]
• JustSystems in Japanese monolingual information retrieval at NTCIR-6Tetsuya Tashiro. [doi]
• Overview of the NTCIR-6 Cross-Lingual Question Answering (CLQA) TaskYutaka Sasaki, Chuan-Jie Lin, Kuang-Hua Chen, Hsin-Hsi Chen. [doi]
• Toshiba BRIDJE at NTCIR-6 CLIR: The Head/Lead Method and Graded Relevance FeedbackTetsuya Sakai, Makoto Koyama, Tatsuya Izuha, Akira Kumano, Toshihiko Manabe, Tomoharu Kokubu. [doi]
• A Method of Cross-Lingual Question-Answering Based on Machine Translation and Noun Phrase Translation using Web documents - Yokohama National University at NTCIR-6 CLQATatsunori Mori, Kousuke Takahashi. [doi]
• Experiments of Opinion Analysis on the Corpora MPQA and NTCIR-6Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham. [doi]
• SVM Based Learning System for F-term Patent ClassificationYaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham. [doi]
• IASL System for NTCIR-6 Korean-Chinese Cross-Language Information RetrievalYu-Chun Wang, Cheng-Wei Lee 0001, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, Wen-Lian Hsu. [doi]