Information Retrieval Technology: 8th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2012, Tianjin, China, December 17-19, 2012. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Exploring and Exploiting Proximity Statistic for Information Retrieval Model....Pages 1-13
A Category-integrated Language Model for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answering....Pages 14-25
The Reusability of a Diversified Search Test Collection....Pages 26-38
One Click One Revisited: Enhancing Evaluation Based on Information Units....Pages 39-51
A Comparison of Action Transitions in Individual and Collaborative Exploratory Web Search....Pages 52-63
Query-Oriented Keyphrase Extraction....Pages 64-75
Using Lexical and Thematic Knowledge for Name Disambiguation....Pages 76-88
Sells Out or Piles Up? A Sentiment Autoregressive Model for Predicting Sales Performance....Pages 89-102
Are Human-Input Seeds Good Enough for Entity Set Expansion? Seeds Rewriting by Leveraging Wikipedia Semantic Knowledge....Pages 103-113
Combining Modifications to Multinomial Naive Bayes for Text Classification....Pages 114-125
Organizing Information on the Web through Agreement-Conflict Relation Classification....Pages 126-137
Exploiting Twitter for Spiking Query Classification....Pages 138-149
Where Are You Settling Down: Geo-locating Twitter Users Based on Tweets and Social Networks....Pages 150-161
Detecting Informative Messages Based on User History in Twitter....Pages 162-173
A Study on Potential Head Advertisers in Sponsored Search....Pages 174-186
Feature Transformation Method Enhanced Vandalism Detection in Wikipedia....Pages 187-198
PLIDMiner: A Quality Based Approach for Researcher’s Homepage Discovery....Pages 199-210
Exploiting and Exploring Hierarchical Structure in Music Recommendation....Pages 211-225
Enhancing Music Information Retrieval by Incorporating Image-Based Local Features....Pages 226-237
Yet Another Sorting-Based Solution to the Reassignment of Document Identifiers....Pages 238-249
What Snippets Say about Pages in Federated Web Search....Pages 250-261
CoFox: A Synchronous Collaborative Browser....Pages 262-274
FISER: An Effective Method for Detecting Interactions between Topic Persons....Pages 275-285
Cross-Lingual Knowledge Discovery: Chinese-to-English Article Linking in Wikipedia....Pages 286-295
Unified Recommendation and Search in E-Commerce....Pages 296-305
Identifying Local Questions in Community Question Answering....Pages 306-315
Improving Content-Based Image Retrieval by Identifying Least and Most Correlated Visual Words....Pages 316-325
Topical Relevance Model....Pages 326-335
Adaptive Data Fusion Methods for Dynamic Search Environments....Pages 336-345
NMiner: A System for Finding Related Entities by Mining a Bimodal Network....Pages 346-355
Combining Signals for Cross-Lingual Relevance Feedback....Pages 356-365
A Conceptual Model for Retrieval of Chinese Frequently Asked Questions in Healthcare....Pages 366-375
LDA-Based Topic Formation and Topic-Sentence Reinforcement for Graph-Based Multi-document Summarization....Pages 376-385
Query Reformulation Based on User Habits for Query-by-Humming Systems....Pages 386-395
Query Expansion Based on User Quality in Folksonomy....Pages 396-405
Semantically Enriched Clustered User Interest Profile Built from Users’ Tweets....Pages 406-416
Adaptive Weighting Approach to Context-Sensitive Retrieval Model....Pages 417-426
Effective Keyword-Based XML Retrieval Using the Data-Centric and Document-Centric Features....Pages 427-436
Unsupervised Extraction of Popular Product Attributes from Web Sites....Pages 437-446
Aggregating Opinions on Hot Topics from Microblog Responses....Pages 447-456
Topic Sequence Kernel....Pages 457-466
Opening Machine Translation Black Box for Cross-Language Information Retrieval....Pages 467-476
Topic Based Author Ranking with Full-Text Citation Analysis....Pages 477-485
Vertical Classification of Web Pages for Structured Data Extraction....Pages 486-495
Grid-Based Interaction for Exploratory Search....Pages 496-505
Analyzing the Spatiotemporal Effects on Detection of Rain Event Duration....Pages 506-517
Outpatient Department Recommendation Based on Medical Summaries....Pages 518-527
Actively Mining Search Logs for Diverse Tags....Pages 528-538
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