NTCIR workshops

[NTCIR = NII Test Collection for IR systems]

[NII = National Institute for Informatics, Tokyo]

 

Selected papers on cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) task

 

1999

NTCIR-1, August 30 – September 1, 1999

Proceedings of the First NTCIR Workshop on Research in Japanese Text retrieval and Term Recognition, August 30 – September 1, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Atsushi Fujii & Tetsuya Ishikawa: Cross-language information retrieval at ULIS.

 

Chuan-Jie Lin, Wen-Cheng Lin, Guo-Wei Bian, & Hsin-Hsi Chen: Description of the NTU Japanese-English cross-lingual information retrieval system used for NTCIR Workshop.

 

Shoji Mizobuchi, Sankon Lee, Fumihiko Kawano, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, & Takahiro Komatsu: Multi-lingual multi-media information retrieval system.

 

S.Nakazawa, T.Ochiai, K.Satoh & A.Okumura: Cross language information retrieval based on comparable corpora.

 

Douglas W.Oard & Jianqiang Wang: NTCIR CLIR experiments at the University of Maryland.

 

Tetsuya Sakai, Yasuyo Shibazaki, Masaru Suzuki, & Masahiro Kajiura: Cross-language information retrieval for NTCIR at Toshiba.

 

Ryuichi Sawada & Kyoji Umemura: Dynamic programming – a new paradigm for information retrieval.

 

2001

NTCIR-2, 2001 March 7-9

NTCIR Workshop 2: Proceedings of the Second NTCIR Workshop on Research in Chinese & Japanese Text retrieval and Text Summarization, March 7-9, 2001, Tokyo, Japan

 

Guo-Wei Bian & Chi-Ching Lin: Trans-EZ at NTCIR-2: synset co-occurrence method for English-Chinese cross-lingual information retrieval.

 

Martin Braschler & Carol Peters: The CLEF campaign.

 

Aitao Chen, Frederic C.Gey & Hailing Jiang: Berkeley at NTCIR-2: Chinese, Japanese, and English IR experiments.

 

K.L.Kwok: NTCIR-2 Chinese, cross language retrieval experiment using PIRCS.

 

Tatsunori Mori, Tomoharu Kokubu, & Takashi Tanaka: Cross-lingual information retrieval based on LSI with multiple word spaces.

 

Masaki Murata, Masao Utiyama, Qing Ma, Hiromi Ozaku, & Hitoshi Isahara: CRL at NTCIR2.

 

Tetsuya Sakai, Stephen E.Robertson, & Stephen Walker: Flexible pseudo-relevance feedback for NTCIR-2.

 

Seigo Tanimura, Masashi Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakagawa, & Tatsunori Mori: Japanese and English cross-lingual information retrieval at DLUT.

 

2002

NTCIR-3, 2002 October 8-10

NTCIR Workshop 3: Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, Automatic Text Summarization and Question Answering, October 8-10, 2002, Tokyo, Japan

 

Atsushi Fujii & Tetsuya Ishikawa: NTCIR-3 cross-language IR experiments at ULIS.

 

Aitao Chen & Frederic C.Gey: Experiments on cross-language and patent retrieval at NTCIR-3 workshop.

 

Hongzhao He & Jianfeng Gao: NTCIR-3 CLIR experiments at MSRA.

 

Myung Gil Jang, Pyung Kim, Yun Jin, Suk-Hyun Cho, & Sung Hyon Myaeng: Simple query translation methods for Korean-English and Korean-Chinese CLIR in NTCIR experiments.

 

K.L.Kwok: NTCIR-3 Chinese, cross language retrieval experiments using PIRCS.

 

Wen-Cheng Lin & Hsin-Hsi Chen: Description of NTU approach to NTCIR3 multilingual information retrieval.

 

Isabelle Moulinier, Hugo Molina-Salgado, & Peter Jackson: Thomson Legal and Regulatory at NTCIR-3: Japanese, Chinese and English retrieval experiments.        

 

Magnus Sahlgren, Preben Hansen & Jussi Karlgren: English-Japanese cross-lingual query expansion using random indexing of aligned bilingual text data.

 

Tetsuya Sakai, Makoto Koyama, Masaru Suzuki, & Toshihiko Manabe: Toshiba KIDS at NTCIR-3: Japanese and English-Japanese IR.

 

Hee-Cheol Seo, Sang-Bum Kim, Baeg-Il Kim, Hae-Chang Rim & Sang-Zoo Lee: KUNLP system for NTCIR-3 English-Korean cross-language information retrieval.

 

Yiming Yang & Nianli Ma: CMU in cross-language information retrieval at NTCIR-3.

 

Junlin Zhang, Le Sun, Weimin Qu, Lin Du, Yufang Sun, Yangxing Fan, Zhigen Lin: ISCAS at NTCIR-3: monolingual, bilingual and multilingual IR.

 

2004

NTCIR-4, 2004 June 2-4

Proceedings of NTCIR-4, Tokyo, 2-4 June 2004

 

Noriko Kando: Overview of the Fourth NTCIR Workshop.

 

Kazuaki Kishida, Kuang-hua Chen, Sukhoon Lee, Kazuko Kuriyama, Noriko Kando, Hsin-His Chen, Sung Hyon Myaeng, & Koji Eguchi: Overview of CLIR task at the Fourth NTCIR Workshop. 

 

Atsushi Fujii & Tetsuya Ishikawa: Cross-language IR at University of Tsukuba: automatic transliteration for Japanese, English and Korean.

 

Frederic C. Gey: Chinese and Korean topic search of Japanese news collections.

 

In-Su Kang, Seung-Hoon Na, & Jong-Hyeok Lee: Combination approaches in information retrieval: words vs. n-grams, and query translation vs. document translation.

 

Kazuaki Kishida, Kazuko Kuriyama, Noriko Kando, & Koji Eguchi: Prediction of performance on cross-lingual information retrieval by regression models.

 

Yuichi Kojima & Hideo Itoh: Ricoh in the NTCIR-4 CLIR tasks.

 

Gina-Anne Levow: University of Chicago at NTCIR4 CLIR: multi-scale query expansion.

 

Wen-Cheng Lin & Hsin-Hsi Chen: Merging multilingual information retrieval results based on prediction of retrieval effectiveness.

 

Fuminori Kimura, Akira Maeda & Shunsuke Uemura: CLIR using web directory at NTCIR4.

 

K.L.Kwok, N.Dinstl & S.Choi: NTCIR-4 Chinese, English, Korean cross language retrieval experiments using PIRCS.

 

Isabelle Moulinier: Thomson Legal and Regulatory at NTCIR-4: monolingual and pivot-language retrieval experiments. 

 

Yan Qu, Gregory Grefenstette, David A.Hull, David A.Evans, Toshiya Ueda, Tatsuo Kato, Daisuke Noda, Motoko Ishikawa, Setsuko Nara, & Kousaku Arita: Justsystem-Clairvoyance CLIR experiments at NTCIR-4 Workshop.

 

2005

NTCIR-5, 2005 December 6-9

Proceedings of NTCIR-5 Workshop meeting, December 6-9, 2005, Tokyo, Japan

 

Noriko Kando: Overview of the Fifth NTCIR Workshop.

 

Kazuaki Kishida, Kuang-hua Chen, Sukhoon Lee, Kazuko Kuriyama, Noriko Kando, Hsin-His Chen, & Sung Hyon Myaeng: Overview of CLIR task at the Fifth NTCIR Workshop. 

 

Samir Abdou & Jacques Savoy: Report on CLIR task for the NTCIR-5 evaluation campaign.

 

Frederic C.Gey: How similar are Chinese and Japanese for cross-language information retrieval?

 

Kui-Lam Kwok, Sora Choi, Norbert Dinstl, & Peter Deng: NTCIR-5 Chinese, English, Korean cross-language retrieval experiments using PIRCS.

 

Jiun-Hung Lin, Min-Shiang Shia, Kao-Hung Lin, Shu-Jung Lin, Scott Yu, & Wen-Hsiang Lu: Search-result-based method for unknown term translation in cross-language information retrieval.

 

Jinming Min, Le Sun, & Junlin Zhang: ISCAS in English-Chinese CLIR at NTCIR-5.

 

Isabelle Moulinier & Ken Williams: Thomson Legal and Regulatory at NTCIR-5: Japanese and Korean experiments. 

 

Masaki Murata, Qing Ma, & Hitoshi Isahara: Applying multiple charcteristics and techniques in the NICT information retrieval system in NTCIR-5. 

 

Tetsuji Nakagawa : NTCIR-5 CLIR experiments at Oki.

 

Seung-Hoon Na, In-Su Kang, & Jong-Hyeok Lee: POSTECH at NTCIR-5: combining evidences of multiple term extractions for mono-lingual and cross-lingual retrieval in Korean and Japanese. 

 

Tetsuya Sakai, Toshihiko Manabe, Akira Kumano, Makoto Koyama, & Tomoharu Kokubu: Toshiba BRIDJE at NTCIR-5 CLIR: evaluation using geometric means.

 

Stephen Tomlinson: CJK experiments with Hummingbird SearchServerTM at NTCIR-5. 

 

Julio Villena-Román, José Miguel Gońi-Menoyo, José C.González-Cristóbal, & José Luis Martínez-Fernández: MIRACLE retrieval experiments with East Asian languages.

 

Ying Zhang & Phil Vines: Using the web for translation disambiguation: RMIT University at NTCIR-5 Chinese-English CLIR. 

 

 

2007

NTCIR-6, 2007 May 15-18

Proceedings of NTCIR-6 Workshop Meeting, May 15-18, 2007, Tokyo, Japan

 

Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro & Carol Peters: CLEF: ongoing activities and plans for the future.

 

Tomoyosi Akiba & Kei Shimizu: Statistical machine translation based passage retrieval for cross-lingual question answering – experiments at NTCIR-6.

 

Kui-Lam Kwok, Peter Deng & Norbert Dinstl: NTCIR-6 monolingual Chinese and English-Chinese cross-lingual question answering experiments using PIRCS. 

 

Teruko Mitamura, Frank Lin, Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Matthew Bilotti, Andrew Schlaikjer & Eric Nyberg: JAVELIN III: cross-lingual question answering from Japanese and Chinese documents. 

 

CLIR task

 

Chen-Hsin Cheng, Reuy-Jye Shue, Hung-Lin Lee, Shu-Yu Hsieh, Guann-Cyun Yeh, & Guo-Wei Bian: AINLP at NTCIR-6: evaluations for multilingual and cross-lingual information retrieval.

 

Frederic C.Gey: Search between Chinese and Japanese text collections.

 

Ruihong Huang, Le Sun, Jing Li, Longxi Pan, & Junlin Zhang: ISCAS in CLIR at NTCIR-6 : experiments with MT and PRF.

 

Vitaly Klyuev: OASIS at NTCIR-6: on-line query translation for Chinese-Japanese cross-lingual information retrieval.

 

Kui-Lam Kwok & Norbert Dinstl: NTCIR-6 Chinese monolingual and English-Chinese cross language retrieval experiments using PIRCS.

 

Chengye Lu, Yue Xu, & Shlomo Geva: Improving translation accuracy in web-based translation extraction.

 

Masaki Murata, Jong-Hoon Oh, Qing Ma & Hitoshi Isahara: Applying multiple charcteristics and techniques in the NICT information retrieval system in NTCIR-6. 

 

Seung-Hoon Na, Jungi Kim, Ye-Ha Lee, & Jong-Hyeok Lee: POSTECH at NTCIR-6: combining evidences of multiple term extractions for mono-lingual and cross-lingual retrieval in Korean and Japanese.

 

Kazuaki Kishida, Kuang-hua Chen, Sukhoon Lee, Kazuko Kuriyama, Noriko Kando, & Hsin-His Chen: Overview of CLIR task at the Sixth NTCIR Workshop.  

 

Noriko Kando: Overview of the Sixth NTCIR Workshop.

 

Tetsuya Sakai, Makoto Koyama, Tatsuya Izuha, Akira Kumano, Toshihiko Manabe, & Tomoharu Kokubu: Toshiba BRIDJE at NTCIR-6 CLIR: the head/lead method and graded relevance feedback.

 

Lixin Shi & Jian-Yun Nie: Using unigram and bigram language models for monolingual and cross-language IR. 

 

Chen-Yu Su, Tien-Chien Lin & Shih-Hung Wu: Using Wikipedia to translate OOV terms on MLIR.

 

Yu-Chun Wang, Cheng-Wei Lee, Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, & Wen-Lian Hsu: IASL system for NTCIR-6 Korean-Chinese cross-language information retrieval.

 

Yu-Chieh Wu, Kun-Chang Tsai, & Jie-Chi Yang: NCU in bilingual information retrieval experiments at NTCIR-6. 

 

Yang Lingpeng, Ji Donghong, & Nie Yu : Information retrieval using label propagation based ranking.

 

Dong Zhou, Mark Truran, Tim Brailsford & Helen Ashman: NTCIR-6 experiments using pattern matched translation extraction.

 

2008

NTCIR-7, 2008, December 16-19

Proceedings of NTCIR-7 Workshop Meeting, December 16-19, 2008, Tokyo, Japan

 

Noriko Kando: Overview of the Seventh NTCIR Workshop

 

CLIR task

 

Nicola Ferro & Carol Peters: From CLEF to TrebleCLEF: the evolution of the cross-language evaluation forum.

 

He Xiaoning, Wang Peidong, Qi Haoliang, Yang Muyun, Lei Guohua, & Xue Yong: Using Google translation in cross-lingual information retrieval.

 

Tatsuhiro Hyodo & Tomoyosi Akiba: Statistical machine translation based passage retrieval – experiment at NTCIR-7 IR4QA task.

 

Ni Lao, Hideki Shima, Teruko Mitamura & Eric Nyberg: Query expansion and machine translation for robust cross-lingual information retrieval.

 

Teruko Mitamura, Eric Nyberg, Hideki Shima, Tsuneaki Kato, Tatsunori Mori, Chin-Yew Lin,  Ruihua Song, Chuan-Jie Lin, Tetsuya Sakai, Donghong Ji, & Noriko Kando: Overview of the NTCIR-7 ACLIA tasks: advanced cross-lingual information access.