NTCIR-6 & EVIA
WorkshopMeeting

December 15th-18th, 2007
National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

Supported by a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

National Institute of Informatics

EVIA
DAY-1 (Tuesday, May 15): EVIA, Tutorial
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9:00

10:00

10:00 - 10:30
Registration Opens (10:00 - 17:30)
10:30 - 11:30 Tutorial

11:00

Introduction to NTCIR, Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics)* for newcomers
11:30 - 13:00

12:00

Lunch
* Today's lunch is not provided.

13:00

13:00 - 14:45 EVIA
13:05 - 14:45 INVITED PAPER SESSION I: New Asian IR Initiatives, Chair: Tetsuya Sakai
13:05-13:25 Introduction of the HTRDP Chinese IR Evaluation, Le Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

14:00

13:25-13:45 Vietnamese Text Retrieval: Test Collection and First Experimentations, Ho Bao Quoc (Vietnam
National University)
13:45-14:05 Initiative for Indian Language IR Evaluation, Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Swapan Paruiand Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Indian Statistical Institute)
14:05-14:25 Evaluation of Web Search Engines on Thai Queries, Virach Sornlertlamvanich (ThaiComputational Linguistics Laboratory)
14:25-14:45 Questions and Discussions
14:45 - 15:00
Coffee Break

15:00

15:00 - 17:15 EVIA (Continued)
15:00 - 15:35 INVITED PAPER SESSION II, Chair: Mark Sanderson

16:00

17:00

A Comparison of Pooled and Sampled Relevance Judgments in the TREC 2006 Terabyte Track, Ian Soboroff(NIST)
15:35 - 17:15 REGULAR PAPER SESSION, Chair: Mark Sanderson
15:35-16:00 On Penalising Late Arrival of Relevant Documents in Information Retrieval Evaluation with
Graded Relevance, Tetsuya Sakai (NewsWatch, Inc.)
16:00-16:25 New Evaluation Measures for F-term Patent Classification, Yaoyong Li†, Kalina Bontcheva andHamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield)
16:25-16:50 WiQA: Evaluating Multi-lingual Focused Access to Wikipedia, Valentin Jijkoun and Maarten de
Rijke† (ISLA, University of Amsterdam)
16:50-17:15 A Proposal to Extend and Enrich the Scientific Data Curation of Evaluation Campaigns,
Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio and Nicola Ferro† (University of Padua)
17:15 - 18:00 EVIA (Continued)
17:15 - 18:00 POSTER SESSION
17:15-18:00
Challenges to Evaluation of Multilingual Geographic Information Retrieval in GeoCLEF, Fredric Gey(University of California, Berkeley), Ray Larson (University of California, Berkeley), Mark Sanderson(University of Sheffield), Kerstin Bishoff (University of Hildesheim), Thomas Mandl (University ofHildesheim), Christa Womser-Hacker (University of Hildesheim), Diana Santos (Linguateca, SINTEF ICT),Paulo Rocha (Linguateca, SINTEF ICT), Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante), Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio(University of Padua) and Nicola Ferro (University of Padua)
An Application of the NTCIR-WEB Raw-data Archive Dataset for User Experiments, Masao Takaku (Research
Organization of Information and System), Yuka Egusa (National Institute for Educational Policy Research),
Hitomi Saito (Aichi University of Education) and Hitoshi Terai (Nagoya University)
User Satisfaction Task: A Proposal for NTCIR-7, Tetsuya Sakai (NewsWatch, Inc.)
18:00

NTCIR-6
DAY-2 (Wednesday, May 16): NTCIR-6 Meeting
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8:00
8:30 - 9:00
NTCIR Registration Open (8:30 - 17:00)
9:00

9:00 - 9:30
Light Refreshment (breakfast)
9:30 - 9:45 Opening
Welcome

10:00

11:00

9:45 - 10:45 Overview, Chair: Keizo Oyama
Overview of the 6th NTCIR Workshop, Noriko Kando

10:45 - 11:15
Coffee11:15 - 13:15 Session 1: QAC, Chair: Tatsunori Mori

12:00

An Overview of the 4th Question Answering Challenge (QAC-4) at NTCIR Workshop 6, Junichi Fukumoto†(Ritsumeikan University), Tsuneaki Kato (University of Tokyo), Fumito Masui (Mie University) and Tsunenori
Mori (Yokohama National University)
Question Answering System for Non-factoid Type Questions and Automatic Evaluation based on BE Method,
Junichi Fukumoto (Ritsumeikan University)

13:00

NTT's Question Answering System for NTCIR-6 QAC-4, Ryuichiro Higashinaka† and Hideki Isozaki (NTTCommunication Science Laboratories)
JAVELIN III: Monolingual and Cross-lingual Question Answering, Hideki Shima† and Teruko Mitamura(Carnegie Mellon University)
A Monolithic Approach and a Type-by-Type Approach for Non-Factoid Question-answering — Yokohama
National University at NTCIR-6 QAC —, Tatsunori Mori†, Mitsuru Sato, Madoka Ishioroshi, Yugo Nishikawa,
Shigenori Nakano and Kei Kimura (Yokohama National University)
13:15 - 14:15
Lunch

14:00
14:15 - 17:30 Session 2: CLIR
CLIR Part I Chair: Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University)
15:00

Overview of CLIR Task at the Sixth NTCIR Workshop, Kazuaki Kishida† (Keio University), Kuang-hua Chen(National Taiwan University), Sukhoon Lee(Chungnam National University), Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri
College), Noriko Kando (NII), Hsin-Hsi Chen( National Taiwan University)
Using Unigram and Bigram Language Models for Monolingual and Cross-Language IR, Lixin Shi† and Jian-16:00

Yun Nie (University of Montreal)
IASL System for NTCIR-6 Korean-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Yu-Chun Wang, Cheng-Wei
Lee, Richar Tzong-Han Tsai and Wen-Lian Hsu (Academia Sinica)

17:00

Improving translation accuracy in web-based translation extraction, Chengye Lu, Yue Xu and Shlomo Geva
(Queensland University of Technology)
Short Break
CLIR Part II Chair: Sukhoon Lee (Chungnam National University)
Toshiba BRIDJE at NTCIR-6 CLIR: The Head/Lead Method and Graded Relevance Feedback, Tetsuya Sakai†(NewsWatch, Inc.), Makoto Koyama, Tatsuya Izuha, Akira Kumano, Toshihiko Manabe and Tomoharu
Kokubu (Toshiba, Inc.)POSTECH at NTCIR-6: Combining Evidences of Multiple Term Extractions for Mono-lingual and Cross-lingual
Retrieval in Korean and Japanese, Seung-Hoon Na† and Jong-Hyeok Lee (POSTECH)NTCIR-6 CLIR-J-J Experiments at Yahoo! Japan, Sumio Fujita† (Yahoo Japan Corporation)
17:30 - 20:00

18:00

19:00

20:00

BanquetDAY-3 (Thursday, May 17): NTCIR-6 Meeting
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8:00
8:30 - 9:00
NTCIR Registration Open (8:30 - 17:00)
9:00

9:00 - 9:20
Light Refreshment (Breakfast)
9:20 - 10:20 Invited Talk

10:00

CLEF: Ongoing Activities and Plans for the Future, Maristella Agosti, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Nicola Ferro(University of Padua), and Carol Peters (ISTI-CNR)
What's New at TREC: Blog and Legal Discovery Search at TREC-2006, Ian Soboroff (NIST)
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee10:40 - 12:40 Session 3: CLQA, Chair: Chuan-Jie Lin (National Taiwan Ocean University)

11:00

12:00

Overview of the NTCIR-6 Cross-Lingual Question Answering (CLQA) Task, Yutaka Sasaki (University ofManchester), Chuan-Jie Lin† (National Taiwan Ocean University), Kuang-hua Chen and Hsin-Hsi Chen(National Taiwan University)
Chinese-Chinese and English-Chinese Question Answering with ASQA at NTCIR-6 CLQA, Cheng-Wei Lee†(National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C), Min-Yuh Day, Cheng-Lung Sung, Yi-Hsun Lee, Tian-Jian
Jiang, Chia-Wei Wu, Cheng-Wei Shih, Yu-Ren Chen and Wen-Lian Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C)
NTCIR-6 Monolingual Chinese and English-Chinese Cross-Lingual Question Answering Experiments using
PIRCS, Kui-Lam Kwok†, Peter Deng and Norbert Dinstl (Queens College, CUNY)
A Method of Cross-Lingual Question-Answering Based on Machine Translation and Noun Phrase Translation
using Web documents — Yokohama National University at NTCIR-6 CLQA —, Tatsunori Mori and Kousuke
Takahashi (Yokohama National University)
12:40 - 13:00 Boasting, Chair: Masashi Inoue
CLQA, Patent, QAC

13:00

13:00 - 14:30 Digital Poster Session with Lunch, Chair: Masashi Inoue
CLQA, Patent, QAC

14:00
14:30 - 16:30 Session 4: Patent, Chair: Atsushi Fujii
15:00

Overview of the Patent Retrieval Task at the NTCIR-6 Workshop, Atsushi Fujii† (University of Tsukuba),
Makoto Iwayama (Hitachi, Ltd./Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Noriko Kando (NII)
Overview of Classification Subtask at NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval Task, Makoto Iwayama† (Hitachi, Ltd./Tokyo
Institute of Technology), Atsushi Fujii (University of Tsukuba) and Noriko Kando (NII)

16:00

NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval Experiments at Hitachi, Hisao Mase† and Makoto Iwayama (Hitachi, Ltd.)
Query Expansion using an Automatically Constructed Thesaurus, Hidetsugu Nanba† (Hiroshima City
University)
Multi-label Patent Classification at NTT Communication, Akinori Fujino† and Hideki Isozaki (NTTCommunication Science Laboratories)
SVM Based Learning System for F-term Patent Classification, Yaoyong Li†, Kalina Bontcheva and Hamish
Cunningham (The University of Sheffield)
16:30 - 17:30

17:00

Break out sessions(16:30 - 17:30) User Satisfaction Task
(16:30 - 18:30) Patent Translation Subtask of Patent Processing Task
(17:30 - 19:00) Patent Mining Subtask of Patent Processing Task
(16:30 - 17:30) Opinion Task

CLQA Oral Presentations plus Digital Posters"ICT-DCU Question Answering Task at NTCIR6", Sen Zhang, Bin Wang and Gareth Jones"Two-Pass Named Entity Classification for Cross Language Question Answering", Yu-Chieh Wu, Kun-Chang Tsai and
Jie-Chi Yang
"Chinese-Chinese and English-Chinese Question Answering with ASQA at NTCIR-6 CLQA", Cheng-Wei Lee, Min-Yuh
Day, Cheng-Lung Sung, Yi-Hsun Lee, Tian-Jian Jiang, Chia-Wei Wu, Cheng-Wei Shih, Yu-Ren Chen and Wen-Lian
Hsu"A Method of Cross-Lingual Question-Answering Based on Machine Translation and Noun Phrase Translation using
Web documents — Yokohama National University at NTCIR-6 CLQA —", Tatsunori Mori and Kousuke Takahashi"NTCIR-6 Monolingual Chinese and English-Chinese Cross-Lingual Question Answering Experiments using PIRCS",
Kui-Lam Kwok, Peter Deng and Norbert Dinstl"NTCIR-6 CLQA Question Answering Experiments at the Tokyo Institute of Technology", Josef Novak, Edward
Whittaker, Matthias Heie, Shuichiro Imai and Sadaoki Furui"JAVELIN III: Cross-Lingual Question Answering from Japanese and Chinese Documents", Teruko Mitamura, Frank
Lin, Hideki Shima, Mengqiu Wang, Jeongwoo Ko, Justin Betteridge, Matthew Bilotti, Andrew Schlaikjer and Eric
Nyberg"Extracting and Ranking Question-Focused Terms Using the Titles of Wikipedia Articles", Yi-Che Chan, Kuan-Hsi
Chen and Wen-Hsiang Lu"Statistical Machine Translation based Passage Retrieval for Cross-Lingual Question Answering — Experiments at
NTCIR-6", Tomoyosi Akiba, Kei Shimizu, Atsushi Fujii and Katunobu Itou
"Utilizing Entity Relation to Bridge the Language Gap in Cross-Lingual Question Answering System", Min Wu andTomek Strzalkowski"Heuristic and Syntactic Scoring for Cross-language Question Answering", Lisa Ballesteros and Xiaoyan Li

Patent Oral Presentations plus Digital Posters"Leveraging Category-based LSI for Patent Retrieval", Masaki Aono
"Integrating Content and Citation Information for the NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval Task", Atsushi Fujii"Multi-label Patent Classification at NTT Communication Science Laboratories", Akinori Fujino and Hideki Isozaki"Term Weighting Classification System Using the Chi-square Statistic for the Classification Subtask at NTCIR-6
Patent Retrieval Task", Kotaro Hashimoto and Takashi Yukawa"Invalidity Search for USPTO Patent Documents Using Different Patent Surrogates", Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Chen-Yang
Tsai and Da-Wei Juang"POSTECH at NTCIR-6 English Patent Retrieval Subtask", Jungi Kim, Ye-Ha Lee, Seung-Hoon Na and Jong-Hyeok
Lee"SVM Based Learning System for F-term Patent Classification", Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva and Hamish
Cunningham"NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval Experiments at Hitachi", Hisao Mase and Makoto Iwayama"Using the K-Nearest Neighbor Method and SMART Weighting in the Patent Document Categorization Subtask at
NTCIR-6", Masaki Murata, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Tamotsu Shirado and Hitoshi Isahara"Query Expansion using an Automatically Constructed Thesaurus", Hidetsugu Nanba"F-term classification Experiments at NTCIR-6 for Justsytems", Masaki Rikitoku"A Passage Retrieval System using Query Expansion and Emphasis", Hiroki Tanioka and Kenichi Yamamoto"F-term Classification System Using K-Nearest Neighbor Method", Kazuya Konishi and Toru Takaki

QAC Oral Presentations plus Digital Posters"Question Answering System for Non-factoid Type Questions and Automatic Evaluation based on BE Method",
Junichi Fukumoto"QA System Metis Based on Semantic Graph Matching at NTCIR 6", Minoru Harada"NTT's Question Answering System for NTCIR-6 QAC-4", Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Hideki Isozaki"JAVELIN III: Answering Non-Factoid Questions in Japanese", Hideki Shima and Teruko Mitamura"A Monolithic Approach and a Type-by-Type Approach for Non-Factoid Question-answering — Yokohama National
University at NTCIR-6 QAC —", Tatsunori Mori, Mitsuru Sato, Madoka Ishioroshi, Yugo Nishikawa, Shigenori Nakano
and Kei Kimura"A System for Answering Non-Factoid Japanese Questions by Using Passage Retrieval Weighted Based on Type ofAnswer", Masaki Murata, Sachiyo Tsukawaki, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Qing Ma and Hitoshi Isahara"How We Did How, What and Why - HOMIO's Participation in QAC4 of NTCIR-6", Yasutomo Kimura, Kenji Ishida,
Hirotaka Imaoka, Fumito Masui, Keisuke Kameyama, Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki"Non-factoid Question Answering Experiments at NTCIR-6: Towards Answer Type Detection for Realworld
Questions", Junta Mizuno, Tomoyosi Akiba, Atsushi Fujii and Katunobu Itou

DAY-4 (Friday, May 18): NTCIR-6 Meeting
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8:00
8:30 - 9:00
NTCIR Registration Opens (8:30 - 15:00)
9:00

9:00 - 9:20
Light Refreshment (Breakfast)
9:20 - 10:20 Invited Talk
"Test collections for all", Mark Sanderson

10:00
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee

11:00

12:00

10:40 - 12:40 Session 5: Opinion, Chair: Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)
Overview of Opinion Analysis Pilot Task at NTCIR-6, Yohei Seki (Toyohashi University of Technology), David
Kirk Evans† (NII), Lun-Wei Ku (National Taiwan U.), Hsin-His Chen (National Taiwan U.), Noriko Kando (NII),
Chin-Yew Lin (Miscrosoft Research Asia)
Opinmine - Opinion Analysis System by CUHK for NTCIR-6 Pilot Task, Ruifeng Xu (Hong Kong Polytechnic),
Kam-Fai Wong† and Yunqing Xia (Tsinghua University)
Appraisal Extraction for News Opinion Analysis at NTCIR-6, Kenneth Bloom†, Sterling Stein and Shlomo
Argamon (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Opinion Analysis based on Lexical Clues and their Expansion, Youngho Kim† and Sung-Hyon Myaeng(Information and Communications University, South Korea)
Crosslingual Opinion Extraction from Author and AuthorityViewpoints at NTCIR-6, Yohei Seki† (Toyohashi
University of Technology)
12:40 - 13:00 Boasting, Chair: David Kirk Evans
CLIR, Opinion, MuST

13:00

13:00 - 14:30 Digital Poster Session with Lunch, Chair: David Kirk Evans
CLIR, Opinion, MuST

14:00
14:30 - 16:00 Session 6: MuST, Chair: Tsuneaki Kato (University of Tokyo)
15:00

Expansion of Multimodal Summarization for Trend Information — Report on the First and Second Cycles ofthe MuST Workshop —, Tsuneaki Kato† (University of Tokyo), Mitsunori Matsushita (NTT Communication
Science Laboratories), Noriko Kando (NII)
Extraction and Visualization of Trend Information from Newspaper Articles and Blogs, Hidetsugu Nanba†(Hiroshima City University), Nao Okuda (Hiroshima Elpida Memory, Inc.), Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Instituteof Technology)
Visualization of Earthquake Trend Information from MuST Corpus, Yasufumi Takama†, Takashi Yamada, Jun
Nakano (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Extraction of Statistical Terms and Co-occurrence Networks from Newspapers, Haruka Saito†, Hideki Kawai,
Masaaki Tsuchida, Hironori Mizuguchi, Dai Kusui (NEC)16:00

16:00 - 17:00
Break out sessions

17:00

17:00 - 17:30
Wrap-up

CLIR Oral Presentations plus Digital Posters"Using Unigram and Bigram Language Models for Monolingual and Cross-Language IR", Lixin Shi and Jian-Yun Nie"IASL System for NTCIR-6 Korean-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval", Yu-Chun Wang, Cheng-Wei
Lee, Richar Tzong-Han Tsai and Wen-Lian Hsu"Improving translation accuracy in web-based translation extraction", Chengye Lu, Yue Xu and Shlomo Geva
"Toshiba BRIDJE at NTCIR-6 CLIR: The Head/Lead Method and Graded Relevance Feedback", Tetsuya Sakai,
Makoto Koyama, Tatsuya Izuha, Akira Kumano, Toshihiko Manabe and Tomoharu Kokubu"POSTECH at NTCIR-6: Combining Evidences of Multiple Term Extractions for Mono-lingual and Cross-lingual
Retrieval in Korean and Japanese", Seung-Hoon Na, Jungi Kim, Ye-Ha Lee and Jong-Hyeok Lee"Monolingual Experiments with Far-East Languages in NTCIR-6", Samir Abdou and Savoy Jacques"AINLP at NTCIR-6: Evaluations for Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval";, Chen-Hsin Cheng, ReuyJye Shue, Hung-Lin Lee, Shu-Yu Hsieh, Guann-Cyun Yeh and Guo-Wei Bian
"NTCIR-6 CLIR-J-J Experiments at Yahoo! Japan", Sumio Fujita"Search Between Chinese and Japanese Text Collections", Fredric Gey"Chinese Information Retrieval Based on Document Expansion", Tingting He, Li Li, Guozhong Qu and Yong Zhang"ISCAS in CLIR at NTCIR-6: Experiments with MT and PRF", Ruihong Huang, Le Sun, Jing Li, Longxi Pan and Junlin
Zhang"OASIS at NTCIR-6: On-line Query Translation for Chinese-Japanese Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval", Vitaly
Klyuev"NTCIR-6 Monolingual Chinese and English-Chinese Cross Language Retrieval Experiments using PIRCS", Kui-Lam
Kwok and Norbert Dinstl"Applying Multiple Characteristics and Techniques in the NICT Information Retrieval System at NTCIR-6", Masaki
Murata, Jong-Hoon Oh, Qing Ma and Hitoshi Isahara"NTCIR-6 CLIR Experiments at Osaka Kyoiku University — Term Expansion Using Online Dictionaries and Weighting
Score by Term Variety —", Takashi Sato
"Using Wikipedia to Translate OOV Term on MLIR", Chen-Yu Su, Tien-Chien Lin and Shih-Hung Wu"JustSystems in Japanese monolingual information retrieval at NTCIR-6", Tetsuya Tashiro"Sampling Precision to Depth 9000: Evaluation Experiments at NTCIR-6", Stephen Tomlinson"On the Robustness of Document Re-Ranking Techniques: A Comparison of Label Propagation, KNN, and RelevanceFeedback", Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Chen-Yang Tsai and Ze-Jing Chuang"NCU in Bilingual Information Retrieval Experiments at NTCIR-6", Yu-Chieh Wu, Kun-Chang Tsai and Jie-Chi Yang
"Information Retrieval Using Label Propagation Based Ranking", Lingpeng Yang, Donghong Ji and Yu Nie"NTCIR-6 Experiments using Pattern Matched Translation Extraction", Dong Zhou, Mark Truran, Tim Brailsford andHelen Ashman

Opinion Oral Presentations plus Digital Posters"Appraisal Extraction for News Opinion Analysis at NTCIR-6", Kenneth Bloom, Sterling Stein and Shlomo Argamon"Cornell System Description for the NTCIR-6 Opinion Task", Eric Breck, Yejin Choi, Veselin Stoyanov and Claire
Cardie"A low-resources approach to Opinion Analysis: Machine Learning and Simple Approaches", David Kirk Evans"ISCAS in Opinion Analysis Pilot Task: Experiments with sentimental dictionary based classifier and CRF model",Rui-hong Huang, Le Sun and Long-xi Pan"Japanese Opinion Extraction System for Japanese Newspapers Using Machine -Learning Method", Toshiyuki
Kanamaru, Masaki Murata and Hitoshi Isahara"Opinion Analysis based on Lexical Clues and their Expansion", Youngho Kim and Sung-Hyon Myaeng"Using Opinion Scores of Words for Sentence-Level Opinion Extraction", Lun-Wei Ku, Yong-Sheng Lo and Hsin-Hsi
Chen"Experiments of Opinion Analysis on the Corpora MPQA and NTCIR-6", Yaoyong Li, Kalina Bontcheva and Hamish
Cunningham"Three-Phase Opinion Analysis System at NTCIR-6", Hironori Mizuguchi, Masaaki Tsuchida and Dai Kusui"Crosslingual Opinion Extraction from Author and Authority Viewpoints at NTCIR-6", Yohei Seki
"NTCIR-6 at Maryland: Chinese Opinion Analysis Pilot Task", Yejun Wu and Douglas Oard
"Opinmine – Opinion Analysis System by CUHK for NTCIR-6 Pilot Task", Ruifeng Xu, Kam-Fai Wong and Yunqing
Xia

MuST Oral Presentations plus Digital Posters"Expansion of Multimodal Summarization for Trend Information -- Report on the first and second cycles of the
MuST Workshop --", Tsuneaki Kato, Mitsunori Matsushita, Noriko Kando"Extraction and Visualization of Trend Information from Newspaper Articles and Blogs", Hidetsugu Nanba(Hiroshima City University), Nao Okuda (Hiroshima Elpida Memory, Inc.), Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute ofTechnology)"Visualization of Earthquake Trend Information from MuST Corpus", Yasufumi Takama, Takashi Yamada, Jun
Nakano (Tokyo Metropolitan University)"Extraction of Statistical Terms and Co-occurrence Networks from Newspapers", Haruka Saito, Hideki Kawai,
Masaaki Tsuchida, Hironori Mizuguchi and Dai Kusui"A Supporting System for Analyzing Trend Information", Kenichi Yamamoto† and Hiroki Tanioka (JustSystems)"Extraction of important numerical pairs from text documents and visualization of them", Masaki Murata (NICT),
Koji Ichii (Hiroshima Univ.), Qing Ma (Ryukoku Univ., NICT), Tamotsu Shirado, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Sachiyo
Tsukawaki, and Hitoshi Isahara (NICT)