Information Retrieval Technology: 9th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2013, Singapore, December 9-11, 2013. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Seven Numeric Properties of Effectiveness Metrics....Pages 1-12
How Intuitive Are Diversified Search Metrics? Concordance Test Results for the Diversity U-Measures....Pages 13-24
Estimating Intent Types for Search Result Diversification....Pages 25-37
On Labelling Intent Types for Evaluating Search Result Diversification....Pages 38-49
Snippet Generation by Identifying Attribute Associated Information....Pages 50-61
Hyper-geometric Model for Information Retrieval Revisited....Pages 62-73
A Nonparametric N-Gram Topic Model with Interpretable Latent Topics....Pages 74-85
Extracting Categorical Topics from Tweets Using Topic Model....Pages 86-96
Topic Assisted Fusion to Re-rank Texts for Multi-faceted Information Retrieval....Pages 97-108
A Collaborative Document Ranking Model for a Multi-faceted Search....Pages 109-120
Using Dempster-Shafer’s Evidence Theory for Query Expansion Based on Freebase Knowledge....Pages 121-132
Optimization of an Integrated Model for Automatic Reduction and Expansion of Long Queries....Pages 133-144
Clustering Short-Text Using Non-negative Matrix Factorization of Hadamard Product of Similarities....Pages 145-155
Various Document Clustering Tasks Using Word Lists....Pages 156-169
Clustering with Error-Estimation for Monitoring Reputation of Companies on Twitter....Pages 170-180
Weighted Cumulative Voting-Based Aggregation Algorithm for Combining Multiple Clusterings of Chemical Structures....Pages 181-190
Learning to Classify Subjective Sentences from Multiple Domains Using Extended Subjectivity Lexicon and Subjective Predicates....Pages 191-202
Duplicate News Story Detection Revisited....Pages 203-214
A Composite Kernel Approach for Detecting Interactive Segments in Chinese Topic Documents....Pages 215-226
Pornography Detection with the Wisdom of Crowds....Pages 227-238
Web Spam Detection: New Approach with Hidden Markov Models....Pages 239-250
Building a Microblog Corpus for Search Result Diversification....Pages 251-262
Generating New LIWC Dictionaries by Triangulation....Pages 263-271
Stemming for Kurdish Information Retrieval....Pages 272-283
The Utility of Discourse Structure in Forum Thread Retrieval....Pages 284-295
A Conceptual Model for Word Sense Disambiguation in Medical Image Retrieval....Pages 296-307
Disambiguation to Wikipedia: A Language and Domain Independent Approach....Pages 308-319
Open Relation Mapping Based on Instances and Semantics Expansion....Pages 320-331
A Wikipedia Based Hybrid Ranking Method for Taxonomic Relation Extraction....Pages 332-343
Exploring Distinctive Features in Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction....Pages 344-355
User-Centered Social Information Retrieval Model Exploiting Annotations and Social Relationships....Pages 356-367
A Diversity-Dependent Measure for Discovering Influencers in Social Networks....Pages 368-379
Characterizing Expertise of Search Engine Users....Pages 380-391
Understanding and Exploiting User’s Navigational Intent in Community Question Answering....Pages 392-403
Are Most-Viewed News Articles Most-Shared?....Pages 404-415
What Users Do: The Eyes Have It....Pages 416-427
Guess What You Will Cite: Personalized Citation Recommendation Based on Users’ Preference....Pages 428-439
Serendipitous Recommendation for Mobile Apps Using Item-Item Similarity Graph....Pages 440-451
User-Aware Advertisability....Pages 452-463
Assigning Library Classification Numbers to People on the Web....Pages 464-475
Interactive Disaster Information Search System for Microblog by Minimal User Feedback....Pages 476-487
Building, Profiling, Analysing and Publishing an Arabic News Corpus Based on Google News RSS Feeds....Pages 488-499
RSOL: A Trust-Based Recommender System with an Opinion Leadership Measurement for Cold Start Users....Pages 500-512
A Tamil Lyrics Search and Visualization System....Pages 513-527
Improving Speech Recognizer Using Neuro-genetic Weights Connection Strategy for Spoken Query Information Retrieval....Pages 528-539
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