| The reliability of metrics based on graded relevance | p. 1 |
| Improving weak ad-hoc retrieval by Web assistance and data fusion | p. 17 |
| Query expansion with the minimum relevance judgments | p. 31 |
| Improved concurrency control technique with lock-free querying for multi-dimensional index structure | p. 43 |
| A color-based image retrieval method using color distribution and common bitmap | p. 56 |
| A probabilistic model for music recommendation considering audio features | p. 72 |
| VisMed : a visual vocabulary approach for medical image indexing and retrieval | p. 84 |
| Object identification and retrieval from efficient image matching : Snap2Tell with the STOIC dataset | p. 97 |
| Extracting the significant terms from a sentence-term matrix by removal of the noise in term usage | p. 113 |
| Cross document event clustering using knowledge mining from co-reference chains | p. 121 |
| Filtering contents with bigrams and named entities to improve text classification | p. 135 |
| The spatial indexing method for supporting a circular location property of object | p. 147 |
| Supervised categorization of JavaScript using program analysis features | p. 160 |
| Effective and scalable authorship attribution using function words | p. 174 |
| Learning to integrate Web taxonomies with fine-grained relations : a case study using maximum entropy model | p. 190 |
| WIDIT : fusion-based approach to Web search optimization | p. 206 |
| Transactional query identification in Web search | p. 221 |
| Improving FAQ retrieval using query log clustering in latent semantic space | p. 233 |
| Phrase-based definitional question answering using definition terminology | p. 246 |
| Enhanced question answering with combination of pre-acquired answers | p. 260 |
| An empirical study of query expansion and cluster-based retrieval in language modeling approach | p. 274 |
| Effective query model estimation using parsimonious translation model in language modeling approach | p. 288 |
| Chinese document re-ranking based on term distribution and maximal marginal relevance | p. 299 |
| On effectiveness measures and relevance functions in ranking INEX systems | p. 312 |
| Home photo categorization based on photographic region templates | p. 328 |
| MPEG-7 visual-temporal clustering for digital image collections | p. 339 |
| A structured learning approach to semantic photo indexing and query | p. 351 |
| Image retrieval using sub-image matching in photos using MPEG-7 descriptors | p. 366 |
| An incremental document clustering for the large document database | p. 374 |
| Subsite retrieval : a novel concept for topic distillation | p. 388 |
| A rough set-based fuzzy clustering | p. 401 |
| Effective use of place information for event tracking | p. 410 |
| A classifier design based on combining multiple components by maximum entropy principle | p. 423 |
| A query-by-singing technique for retrieving polyphonic objects of popular music | p. 439 |
| Integrating textual and visual information for cross-language image retrieval | p. 454 |
| Practical application of associative classifier for document classification | p. 467 |
| A method for query expansion using a hierarchy of clusters | p. 479 |
| Chinese question classification from approach and semantic views | p. 485 |
| GJM-2 : a special case of general Jelinek-Mercer smoothing method for language modeling approach to ad hoc IR | p. 491 |
| The empirical impact of the nature of novelty detection | p. 497 |
| Song wave retrieval based on frame-wise phoneme recognition | p. 503 |
| trackThem : exploring a large-scale news video archive by tracking human relations | p. 510 |
| Topic-independent Web high-quality page selection based on K-means clustering | p. 516 |
| Improving text similarity measurement by critical sentence vector model | p. 522 |
| Audio fingerprinting scheme by temporal filtering for audio identification immune to channel-distortion | p. 528 |
| On the Chinese document clustering based on dynamical term clustering | p. 534 |
| Integrating heterogeneous multimedia resources | p. 540 |
| Calculating Webpage importance with site structure constraints | p. 546 |
| Gene ontology classification of biomedical literatures using context association | p. 552 |
| An examination of feature selection frameworks in text categorization | p. 558 |
| Query transitive translation using IR score for Indonesian-Japanese CLIR | p. 565 |
| Development of a meta product search engine with Web services | p. 571 |
| An automatic code classification system by using memory-based learning and information retrieval technique | p. 577 |
| Finding new news : novelty detection in broadcast news | p. 583 |
| Named entity tagging for Korean using DL-CoTrain algorithm | p. 589 |
| Semantic categorization of contextual features based on wordnet for G-to-P conversion of arabic numerals combined with homographic classifiers | p. 595 |
| Robust matching method for scale and rotation invariant local descriptors and its application to image indexing | p. 601 |
| Image feedback retrieval based on vector space model transformation | p. 616 |
| Indexing structures for content-based retrieval of large image databases : a review | p. 626 |
| Document similarity search based on generic summaries | p. 635 |
| KNM : a novel intelligent user interface for webpage navigation | p. 641 |
| Towards construction of evaluation framework for query expansion | p. 647 |
| An efficient incremental nearest neighbor algorithm for processing k-nearest neighbor queries with visal and semantic predicates in multimedia information retrieval system | p. 653 |
| Generating term transliterations using contextual information and validating generated results using Web corpora | p. 659 |
| Handling orthographic varieties in Japanese IR : fusion of word-, N-gram-, and Yomi-based indices across different document collections | p. 666 |
| A term weighting approach for text categorization | p. 673 |
| A LF based answer indexing method for encyclopedia question-answering system | p. 679 |
| Approximate phrase match to compile synonymous translation terms for Korean medical indexing | p. 685 |
| Protein function classification based on gene ontology | p. 691 |
| Extracting and utilizing of IS-A relation patterns for question answering systems | p. 697 |
| An iterative approach for Web catalog integration with support vector machines | p. 703 |
| Fuzzy post-clustering algorithm for Web search engine | p. 709 |
| A relational nested interval encoding scheme for XML storage and retrieval | p. 715 |
| The design of Webservices framework support ontology based dynamic service composition | p. 721 |
| Privacy preserving decision tree in multi party environment | p. 727 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
