Publications (English Only)

Experiments on Cross-Language Information Retrieval Using Comparable Corpora of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Languages. (Kishida, Kazuaki and Chen, Kuang-Hua) In: Evaluating Information Retrieval and Access Tasks: NTCIR's Legacy of Research Impact (Sakai, Tetsuya, Oard, Douglas W., Kando, Noriko (Eds.)) Springer, 2020 (The Information Retrieval Series). 

Empirical comparison of word similarity measures based on co-occurrence, context, and a vector space model (Natsuki KADOWAKI and Kazuaki KISHIDA) Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice (JISTaP), Vol.8, No.2, June 2020, p.6-17.

Uncomplicated procedure for thesaurus mapping: Use of stemming, edit distance and vector matching (Kazuaki Kishida) IPSJ SIG Technical Report. Vol.2018-IFAT-131, No.1, p.1-8 (2018). [PDF]

An Experiment on Simple and Practical Methods of Cluster Labeling for Hierarchically Organized Document Subsets (Kazuaki Kishida) IPSJ SIG Technical Report. Vol.2017-IFAT-125, No.10, p.1-8 (2017). [PDF] 

Overview of NTCIR-12 (Kazuaki Kishida and Makoto P. Kato) Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, p.1-7 (2016). 

Report on NTCIR-12: The twelfth round of NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research (Makoto P. Kato, Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando, Tetsuya Sakai, Mark Sanderson) SIGIR Forum. Vol.50, No.2, 2016, p.18-27.

Algorithm for hierarchical multi-way divisive clustering of document collections (Kazuaki Kishida) IPSJ SIG Technical Report. Vol.2014-IFAT-116, No.1, p.1-8 (2014). [PDF] 

Empirical comparison of external evaluation measures for document clustering by using synthetic data (Kazuaki Kishida) IPSJ SIG Technical Report. Vol.2014-IFAT-113, No.1, p.1-7 (2014). [PDF] 

Large-scale multilingual document clustering (Kazuaki KISHIDA) Ph.D. Thesis, Keio University, 2013.

Experiment of Document Clustering by Triple-pass Leader-follower Algorithm without Any Information on Threshold of Similarity (Kazuaki Kishida) IPSJ SIG Technical Report. Vol.2013-IFAT-111, No.23, p.1-6 (2013). [PDF] 

Modification of Vocabulary-based Re-ranking for Geographic and Temporal Searching at NTCIR GeoTime Task (Kazuaki Kishida and Ikuko Matsushita) Proceedings of NTCIR-9 Workshop Meeting, December 6-9, 2011 Tokyo Japan http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings9/NTCIR/04-NTCIR9-GEOTIME-KishidaK.pdf 

History and recent trends in library and information science in Japan (Kazuaki KISHIDA) International Symposium on Library and Information Science Education: Trends and Visions, Oct 20, 2011, Department of Library and Information Science, National Taiwan University (Taipei). http://www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/50symposium/submissions/IP003.pdf 

Double-pass clustering technique for multilingual document collections　(Kazuaki KISHIDA) Journal of Information Science, Vol.37, No.3, 2011, p.304-321.

High-speed rough clustering for very large document collections.(Kazuaki KISHIDA) Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol.61, No.6, 2010, p.1092-1104.

Vocabulary-based Re-ranking for Geographic and Temporal Searching at NTCIR GeoTime Task (Kazuaki KISHIDA) Proceedings of NTCIR-8 Workshop Meeting, June 15-18, 2010, Tokyo, Japan (pp.181-184). http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings8/NTCIR/06-NTCIR8-GeoTime-KishidaK.pdf 

Translation disambiguation for cross-language information retrieval using context-based translation probability. (Kazuaki KISHIDA and Emi ISHITA) Journal of Information Science, Vol.35, No.4, 2009, p.481-495.

Prediction of performance of cross-language information retrieval using automatic evaluation of translation. (Kazuaki KISHIDA) Library & Information Science Research. Vol.30, No.2, 2008, p.138-144. 

Term disambiguation techniques based on target document collection for cross-language information retrieval: an empirical comparison of performance between techniques.　(Kazuaki KISHIDA) Information Processing & Management. Vol. 43, No.1, 2007, p.103-120.

Overview of CLIR Task at the Sixth NTCIR Workshop, (Kazuaki Kishida, Kuang-hua Chen, Sukhoon Lee, Kazuko Kuriyama, Noriko Kando and Hsin-Hsi Chen) NTCIR-6 Workshop, 2007 (Tokyo) http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/NTCIR/index.html#CLIR 

A hybrid approach to query and document translation using a pivot language for cross-language information retrieval. (Kazuaki KISHIDA & Noriko KANDO) Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories, Lecture Note for Computer Science (Springer-Verlag), Vol.4022, 2006, p.93-101.

Two-stage refinement of transitive query translation with English disambiguation for cross-language information retrieval: an experiment at CLEF2004. (Kishida, K., Kando, N. & Chen K. H.) Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images, Lecture Notes in Computer Science(Springer-Verlag), Vol. 3491, 2005, p.135-142.

Technical issues of cross-language information retrieval: a review. (Kazuaki KISHIDA) Information Processing & Management. Vol.41, No.3, 2005, p.433-455.

Property of average precision and its generalization: an examination of evaluation indicator for information retrieval experiments （Kazuaki KISHIDA) NII Technical Reports, NII-2005-014E, 2005  http://research.nii.ac.jp/TechReports/05-014E.html 

Overview of CLIR Task at the Fifth NTCIR Workshop. (Kazuaki Kishida, Kuang-hua Chen, Sukhoon Lee, Kazuko Kuriyama, Noriko Kando, Hsin-Hsi Chen and Sung Hyon Myaeng) NTCIR-5 Workshop, 2005 (Tokyo) http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings5/toc.html#CLIR 

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) task at the NTCIR workshop 3. (Kazuaki Kishida, Kuang-Hua Chen, Sukhoon Lee, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Noriko Kando, Kazuko Kuriyama, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Koji Eguchi.) SIGIR Forum. 38(1), 17-20, 2004.

Lessons from NTCIR-4: focusing on evaluation of CLIR on east Asian languages, patent and QA. （Kando, N. & Kishida. K.）Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2004 Workshop, 2004 (Bath, UK)

Overview of CLIR Task at the Fourth NTCIR Workshop （Kishida, K., Chen, K. H., Lee, S., Kuriyama, K., Kando, N.,Chen, H. H., Myaeng, S. H. & Eguchi, K.）NTCIR-4 Workshop, 2004 (Tokyo) http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings4/index.html

Prediction of performance on cross-lingual information retrieval by regression models （Kishida, K., Kuriyama, K., Kando, N. & Eguchi, K.）NTCIR-4 Workshop, 2004 (Tokyo) http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings4/index.html

Experiment on pseudo relevance feedback method using Taylor formula at NTCIR-3 （Kazuaki KISHIDA) NTCIR-3 Workshop, 2002 (Tokyo) http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings3/index.html

Regression model and query expansion for NTCIR-2 ad hoc retrieval task （Kazuaki KISHIDA) NTCIR-2 Workshop, 2001 (Tokyo) http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings2/index.html

Comparing multiple methods for Japanese and Japanese-English text retrieval. （Chen, A., Gey, F. C., Kishida, K., Jiang, H. & Liang, Q.）NTCIR-1 Workshop, 1999 (Tokyo) http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings/index.html 

Automatic construction of a Japanese-English lexicon and its application in cross-language information retrieval (Chen, A., Kishida, K., Gey, F. C., Jiang, H. & Liang, Q.) Joint ACM DL/SIGIR Workshop on Multilingual Information Discovery and AcesS (MIDAS), 1999 (Berkeley)