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Information Retrieval Technology

15th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2019, Hong Kong, China, November 7–9, 2019, Proceedings

Editors:

  1. Fu Lee Wang

    1. Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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  2. Haoran Xie

    1. The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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  3. Wai Lam

    1. Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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  4. Aixin Sun

    1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

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  5. Lun-Wei Ku

    1. Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

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  6. Tianyong Hao

    1. South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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  7. Wei Chen

    1. Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

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  8. Tak-Lam Wong

    1. Douglas College, New Westminster, Canada

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  9. Xiaohui Tao

    1. University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 12004)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): AIRS: Asia Information Retrieval Symposium

Conference proceedings info: AIRS 2019.

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Question Answering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Towards Automatic Evaluation of Reused Answers in Community Question Answering

      • Hsin-Wen Liu, Sumio Fujita, Tetsuya Sakai
      Pages 3-9

    3. Unsupervised Answer Retrieval with Data Fusion for Community Question Answering

      • Sosuke Kato, Toru Shimizu, Sumio Fujita, Tetsuya Sakai
      Pages 10-21

    4. A Semantic Expansion-Based Joint Model for Answer Ranking in Chinese Question Answering Systems

      • Wenxiu Xie, Leung-Pun Wong, Lap-Kei Lee, Oliver Au, Tianyong Hao
      Pages 22-33

    5. Arc Loss: Softmax with Additive Angular Margin for Answer Retrieval

      • Rikiya Suzuki, Sumio Fujita, Tetsuya Sakai
      Pages 34-40

  3. Context-Awareness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. Context-Aware Collaborative Ranking

      • Wei Dai, Weike Pan, Zhong Ming
      Pages 43-55

    3. Context-Aware Helpfulness Prediction for Online Product Reviews

      • Iyiola E. Olatunji, Xin Li, Wai Lam
      Pages 56-65

    4. LGLMF: Local Geographical Based Logistic Matrix Factorization Model for POI Recommendation

      • Hossein A. Rahmani, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Sajad Ahmadian, Mitra Baratchi, Mohsen Afsharchi, Fabio Crestani
      Pages 66-78

  4. IR Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. On the Pluses and Minuses of Risk

      • Rodger Benham, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper
      Pages 81-93

    4. Cross-Level Matching Model for Information Retrieval

      • Yifan Nie, Jian-Yun Nie
      Pages 106-117

    5. Understanding and Improving Neural Ranking Models from a Term Dependence View

      • Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng
      Pages 118-130

  5. Training

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. Generating Short Product Descriptors Based on Very Little Training Data

      • Peng Xiao, Joo-Young Lee, Sijie Tao, Young-Sook Hwang, Tetsuya Sakai
      Pages 133-144

    3. Experiments with Cross-Language Speech Retrieval for Lower-Resource Languages

      • Suraj Nair, Anton Ragni, Ondrej Klejch, Petra Galuščáková, Douglas Oard
      Pages 145-157

    4. Weighted N-grams CNN for Text Classification

      • Zequan Zeng, Yi Cai, Fu Lee Wang, Haoran Xie, Junying Chen
      Pages 158-169

  6. Semantics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Information Retrieval Technology Conference, AIRS 2019, held in Hong Kong, China, in November 2019.
The 14 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and 
multimedia data. 
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Fu Lee Wang

  • The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Haoran Xie

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Wai Lam

  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Aixin Sun

  • Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Lun-Wei Ku

  • South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

    Tianyong Hao

  • Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

    Wei Chen

  • Douglas College, New Westminster, Canada

    Tak-Lam Wong

  • University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

    Xiaohui Tao

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