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Books

“Evaluating Information Retrieval and Access Tasks - NTCIR's Legacy of Research Impact“ (Springer，2021)

Sakai, Tetsuya, Oard, Douglas W., Kando, Noriko (Eds.)
“Evaluating Information Retrieval and Access Tasks - NTCIR's Legacy of Research Impact“，Springer, 2021. (Chapter 3. Text Summarization Challenge: An Evaluation Program for Text Summarization and Chapter 4. Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval)
ISBN: 978-981-15-5553-4 (Print) 978-981-15-5554-1 (Online)
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-5554-1
　

“Transactions on Engineering Technologies“(Springer，2014)

Gi-Chul Yang, Sio-Iong Ao, Xu Huang, Oscar Castillo (Eds.)
“Transactions on Engineering Technologies“，Springer，2014. ("Extracting Naming Concepts by Analyzing Recipes and the Modifiers in Their Titles" (Wakamiya, S., Kawai, Y., Nanba, H., and Sumiya, K.))
ISBN: 978-94-017-9587-6 (Print) 978-94-017-9588-3 (Online)
　

“Theory and Applications for Advanced Text Mining”(INTECH，2012)

Sakurai, S. (Eds.)
“Theory and Applications for Advanced Text Mining”，INTECH，2012．
(“Automatic Compilation of Travel Information from Texts: A Survey”)
ISBN：978-953-51-0852-8

“Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval”(Springer，2011)

Lupu, M.; Mayer, K.; Tait, J.; Trippe, A.J. (Eds.)
“Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval”，Springer，2011．
(“Automatic Translation of Scholarly Terms into Patent Terms”)
ISBN：978-3-642-19230-2

Journal and Conference Papers

2024

• Fukuda, S., Nanba, H., and Shoji, H. (2024) “Analysis of International Interests and Emotional Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic”, Information Engineering Express, Vol. 10，No. 1 (1.7MB)
• Yoshimaru, N., Kusu, K., Kimura, Y., Nanba, N., and Hatano, K. (2024)“Construction of Ingredient Embedding Considering Both Cooking Recipes and Their Ingredients”. In Proceedings of 2024 International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), pp. 101-108..

2023

• Nanba, H., Yamamoto, K., Fukuda, S., Shoji, H., Tanishita, M., Kyutoku, Y., and Yamashina M. (2023) “Modeling the Social Acceptability of Technologies Using Twitter Data”. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2023). (626kB)
• Nanba, H. and Fukuda, S. (2023) “Automatic Detection of Geotagged Food-Related Videos Using Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis”. In Proceedings of ACM RecSys Workshop on Recommenders in Tourism (RecTour2023). (1.8MB)
• Nanba, H., Kubo, S., and Fukuda, S. (2023) “Automatic Generation of Explanatory Text from Flowchart Images in Patents”. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech 2023) in conjunction with SIGIR 2023. (414kB)
• Iwakuma, K., Gong, Y., Nanba, H., and Fukuda, S. (2023) “Automatic Multilingual Hypernym–Hyponym Relation Extraction Using a Link Prediction Model”. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI AAI 2023). (633kB) Competitive Paper Award
• Hachisuka, S., Nakada, Y., Nanba, H., and Fukuda, S. (2023) “Japanese Patent Classification Using Few-shot Learning”. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI AAI 2023). (341kB)
• Fukuda, S., Nanba, H., and Shoji, H. (2023) “An Analysis of Shifts in Public Interests and Sentiments in Japan Using News Tweet Data during the COVID-19 Pandemic”. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI AAI 2023). (370kB)
• Kyutoku, Y., Yamashina, M., Tanishita, M., Nanba, H., Fukuda, S., and Shoji, H. (2023) “Depth of Information Processing Rather Than Its Content Affects Proactive Behavioral Intentions Towards Risk”. In Mitsuo Nagamachi and Shigekazu Ishihara (eds) Kansei Engineering. AHFE (2023) International Conference. AHFE Open Access, vol 101. .
• Kyutoku, Y., Yamashina, M., Tanishita, M., Nanba, H., Fukuda, S., and Shoji, H. (2023) “Adaptive Aspects of Negative Psychological Reactions with Regard to Proactive Behavioral Intentions Towards Climate Change in Japan”. In Proceedings of the 2023 International Convention of Psychological Science. http://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002990

2022

• Fukuda, S., Nanba, H., and Shoji, H. (2022) “Changes in Interests and Emotional Responses to News Coverage of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Case Numbers Over Time”. In Proceedings of 2022 Joint 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 23rd International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS 2022). (712kB)
• Nakamitsu, J., Fukuda, S., and Nanba, H. (2022) “Analyzing the Structure of U.S. Patents Using Patent Families”. In Proceedings of the 12rd International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI AAI 2022). (365KB)
• Fukuda, S., Nanba, H., and Shoji, H. (2022) “Analysis of International Public Emotional Responses Toward the COVID-19 Vaccine”. In Proceedings of the 12rd International Conference on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI AAI 2022). (1.2MB)

2020

• Shibata, N., Shinoda, H., Nanba, H., Ishino, A., and Takezawa, T. (2020) “Classification and Visualization of Travel Blog Entries Based on Types of Tourism”. In Proceedings of ENTER 2020 , 27-37. (625kB)

2019

• Iinuma, S., Nanba, H., and Takezawa, T. (2019) “Investigating the Effectiveness of Computer-produced Summaries Obtained from Multiple Travel Blog Entries” Information Technology & Tourism, Vol.21, No.1 , 83-103. [Springer]

2018

• Nanba, H. (2018) “Construction of an Academic Resource Repository”. In Proceedings of Workshop of Toward Effective Support for Academic Information Search, ICADL 2018 . (142kB)
• Iinuma, S., Nanba, H., and Takezawa, T. (2018) “Automatic Summarization of Multiple Travel Blog Entries Focusing on Travelers' Behavior”. In Proceedings of ENTER 2018 . (5.3MB)

2016

• Hirayama, T., Nanba, H., and Takezawa T. (2016) “Mapping Historical Documents to Geographical Space”. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Mobile Ubiquitous Systems, Infrastructures, Communications, And AppLications (MUSICAL 2016), . (404KB)
• Fujii, K., Nanba, H., Takezawa T., Takezawa, T., Ishino, A., Okumura, M., and Kurata, Y. (2016) “Travellers’ Behaviour Analysis Based on Automatically Identified Attributes from Travel Blog Entries”. In Proceedings of Workshop of Artificial Intelligence for Tourism, PRICAI 2016, . (515KB)
• Hiramae, A., Nanba, H., and Takezawa T. (2016) “HCU at the NTCIR-12 MedNLPDoc Task”. In Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-lingual Information Access. (164KB)
• Nanba, H., Sakai, T., Kando, N., Keyaki, A., Eguchi, K., Hatano, K., Shimizu, T., Hirate, Y., and Fujii, A. (2016) “NEXTI at NTCIR-12 IMine-2 Task”. In Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-lingual Information Access. (423KB)
• Fujii, K., Nanba, H., Takezawa, T., and Ishino, A. (2016) “Enriching Travel Guidebooks with Travel Blog Entries and Archives of Answered Questions”. In Proceedings of ENTER 2016 . (2.6MB)

2015

• Hanai, S., Nanba, H., and Nadamoto, A. (2015) “Clustering for Closely Similar Recipes to Extract Spam Recipes in User-generated Recipe Sites”. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2015) . (192KB)
• Fukuda, S., Nakahashi, H., Nanba, H., and Takezawa, T. (2015) “Quick Evaluation of Research Impacts at Conferences using SNS”. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval, in conjunction with DEXA 2015 . (283KB)

2014

• Nanba, H. (2014) “Hiroshima City University at NTCIR-11 Cooking Recipe Search Task”. In Proceedings of the 11th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-lingual Information Access. (282KB)
• Nanba, H., Doi, Y., Takezawa, T., Sumiya, K., and Tsujita, M. (2014) “Construction of a Cooking Ontology from Cooking Recipes and Patents”. In Proceedings of Workshop on Smart Technologyfor Cooking and Eating Activities : CEA2014 (CEA 2014) . (260KB)
• Tachibana, A., Wakamiya, S., Nanba, H., and Sumiya, K. (2014) “Extraction of Naming Concepts Based on Modifiers in Recipe Titles”. In Proceedings of International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2014 (IMECS 2014), pp.507-512.(985KB)

2013

• Fukuda, S., Nanba, H., Takezawa, T., and Aizawa, A. (2013) “Classification of Research Papers Focusing on Elemental Technologies and Their Effects”. In Proceedings of the 6th Language & Technology Conference (LTC'13) . (269KB)
• Nanba, H., Douke, S., and Takezawa, T. (2013) “Automatic Identification of Know-How Blog Entries from a Travel Blog Database”. International Conference on Advanced Tourism Informatics (ICATI 2013).(152KB)
• Nanba, H., Saito, R., Ishino, A., and Takezawa, T. (2013) “Automatic Extraction of Event Information from Newspaper Articles and Web Pages”. ICADL 2013, LNCS 8279, 171-175. (95KB)

2012

• Ishino, A., Odawara, S., Nanba, H., and Takezawa, T. (2012) “Extracting Transportation Information and Traffic Problems from Tweets During a Disaster: Where do you evacuate to?”. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management (IMMM 2012). (1.3MB)
• Ishino, A., Nanba, H., and Takezawa, T. (2012) “Construction of a System for Providing Travel Information along Hiroden Streetcar Lines”. In Proceedings of the 3rd IIAI International Conference on e-Services and Knowledge Management (IIAI ESKM 2012). (506KB)
• Fukuda, S., Nanba, H., and Takezawa, T. (2012) “Extraction and Visualization of Technical Trend Information from Research Papers and Patents”. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, collocated with JCDL 2012. (755KB) (HTML)
• Nanba, H., Takezawa, T., Uchiyama, K., and Aizawa, A. (2012) “Automatic Translation of Scholarly Terms into Patent Terms Using Synonym Extraction Techniques”. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey). (207KB)

2011

• Ishino, A., Nanba, H., and Takezawa, T. (2011) “Automatic Classification of Link Polarity in Blog Entries”. In Proceedings of the 7th Asian Information Retrieval Societies Conference, 509-518. (287KB)
• Ishino, A., Nanba, H., and Takezawa, T. (2011) “Providing Ad Links to Travel Blog Entries Based on Link Types”. In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Asian Language Resources collocated with IJCNLP 2011, 63-70. (428KB)
• Nanba, H., Mayumi, S., and Takezawa, T. (2011) “Automatic Construction of a Bilingual Thesaurus using Citation Analysis”. In Proceedings of the 4th International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR'11), 25-30. (415KB)
• Hashida, K., Nanba, H., Inui, T., Iwayama, M., Hashimoto, T., and Fujii, A. (2011) “Circulation of Collective Intelligence through Patents: An Early Progress Report”. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 27, 113-121. (Link)
• Uchiyama, K., Aizawa, A., Nanba, H., and Sagara, T. (2011) “OSUSUME: Cross-lingual Recommender System for Research Papers”. In Proceedings of IUI 2011 Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation, 39-42. (Link)
• Ishino, A., Nanba, H., and Takezawa, T. (2011) “Automatic Compilation of an Online Travel Portal from Automatically Extracted Travel Blog Entries”. In Proceedings of ENTER 2011. (452KB)

2010

• Nanba, H., Kondo, T., and Takezawa, T. (2010) “Automatic Creation of a Technical Trend Map from Research Papers and Patents”. In Proceedings of the 3rd International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR'10), 11-15. (646KB)
• Nanba, H., Fujii, A., Iwayama, M., and Hashimoto, T. (2010) “Overview of the Patent Mining Task at the NTCIR-8 Workshop”. In Proceedings of the 8th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-lingual Information Access. (396KB)
• Nanba, H., Hirahara, K., and Takezawa, T. (2010) “Hiroshima City University at Evaluation Subtask in the NTCIR-8 Patent Translation Task”. In Proceedings of the 8th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-lingual Information Access. (195KB)
• Nanba, H., Kondo, T., and Takezawa, T. (2010) “Hiroshima City University at NTCIR-8 Patent Mining Task”. In Proceedings of the 8th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-lingual Information Access. (191KB)

2009

• Kondo, T., Nanba, H., Takezawa, T., and Okumura, M. (2009) “Technical Trend Analysis by Analyzing Research Papers' Titles”. In Proceedings of the 4th Language & Technology Conference (LTC'09) , 234-238. (248KB)
• Hirahara, K., Nanba, H., Takezawa, T., and Okumura, M. (2009) “Automatic Evaluation of Texts by Using Paraphrase”. In Proceedings of the 4th Language & Technology Conference (LTC'09) , 370-374. (223KB)
• Nanba, H., Kamaya, H., Takezawa, T., Okumura, M., Shinmori, A., and Tanigawa, H. (2009) “Automatic Translation of Scholarly Terms into Patent Terms”. In Proceedings of the 2nd International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR'09), 21-24. (264KB)
• Nanba, H. and Takezawa, T. (2009) “Classification of Research Papers into a Patent Classification System Using Two Translation Models”. In Proceedings of Workshop on Text and Citation Analysis for Scholarly Digital Libraries, the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 27-35. (214KB)
• Nanba, H., Taguma, H., Ozaki, T., Kobayashi, D., Ishino, A., and Takezawa, T. (2009) “Automatic Compilation of Travel Information from Automatically Identified Travel Blogs”. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Short Paper, 205-208. (179KB)

2008

• Nanba, H., Anzen, N., and Okumura, M. (2008) “Automatic Extraction of Citation Information in Japanese Patent Applications” International Journal on Digital Libraries, Vol.9, No.2, 151-161. (588KB), [SpringerLink]
• Nanba, H., Fujii, A., Iwayama, M., and Hashimoto, T. (2008) “Overview of the Patent Mining Task at the NTCIR-7 Workshop”. In Proceedings of the 7th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-lingual Information Access, 325-332. (473KB)
• Kobayashi, D., Nanba, H., and Takezawa, T. (2008) “Extraction of Opinion Sentences using Machine Learning: Hiroshima City University at NTCIR-7 MOAT”. In Proceedings of the 7th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-lingual Information Access, 255-259. (174KB)
• Nanba, H. (2008) “Extraction of Trend Information from Newspaper Articles: Hiroshima City University at NTCIR-7 MuST”. In Proceedings of the 7th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-lingual Information Access, 489-493. (164KB)
• Nanba, H. (2008) “Hiroshima City University at NTCIR-7 Patent Mining Task”. In Proceedings of the 7th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-lingual Information Access, 369-372. (173KB)
• Hayama, T., Kunifuji, S., and Nanba, H. (2008) “Structure Extraction from Presentation Slide Information”. In Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2008) , 678-687. (144KB)
• Nanba, H. and Morishita, S. (2008) “Searching for Illustrative Sentences for Multiword Expressions in a Research Paper Database”. Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information, 11th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2008, Bali, Indonesia, December 2008, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5362, , 114-123. (168KB)
• Nanba, H., Fujii, A., Iwayama, M., and Hashimoto, T. (2008) “The Patent Mining Task in the Seventh NTCIR Workshop”. In Proceedings of the 1st International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR'08), 25-31. (305KB)
• Taniguchi, Y. and Nanba, H. (2008) “Identification of Bibliographic Information Written in both Japanese and English”. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 12th European Conference, ECDL 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5713, Springer , 431-433. (74KB)

2007

• Nanba, H., Okuda, N., and Okumura, M. (2007) “Extraction and Visualization of Trend Information from Newspaper Articles and Blogs ”. In Proceedings of the 6th NTCIR Workshop, 243-248. (267KB)
• Nanba, H. (2007) “Query Expansion using an Automatically Constructed Thesaurus ”. In Proceedings of the 6th NTCIR Workshop, 414-419. (222KB)

2006

• Nanba, H., and Okumura, M. (2006) “An Automatic Method for Summary Evaluation Using Multiple Evaluation Results by a Manual Method”. in Proceedings of COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, 603-610. (251KB).

2005

• Nanba, H., and Okumura, M. (2005) “Automatic Detection of Survey Articles”. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, 9th European Conference, ECDL 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 18-23, 2005 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3652, Springer, (ECDL 2005), 391-401. (202KB).
• Hayama, T., Nanba, H., and Kunifuji, S. (2005) “Alignment between a Technical Paper and Presentation Sheets Using a Hidden Markov Model”. In Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2005 in Kagawa, Japan), 102-106. (499KB)

2004

• Hirao, T., Fukusima, T., Okumura, M., Nobata, C., and Nanba, H. (2004) “Corpus and Evaluation Measures for Multiple Document Summarization with Multiple Sources”. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004 in Geneve, Switzerland), 535-541. (90KB)
• Hirao, T., Okumura, M., Fukusima, T., and Nanba, H. (2004) “Text Summarization Challenge 3 - Text Summarization Evaluation at NTCIR Workshop 4 -”. In Proceedings of the 4th NTCIR Workshop.
• Okumura, M., Fukusima, T., Nanba, H., and Hirao, T. (2004) “Text Summariztion Challenge 2: Text Summarization Evaluation at NTCIR Workshop3”. SIGIR Forum 38 (1), 29-38.
• Nanba, H. and Okumura, M. (2004) “Comparison of Some Automatic and Manual Methods for Summary Evaluation Based on the Text Summarization Challenge 2”. in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004 in Lisbon, Portugal, to appear). (128KB)
• Nanba, H., Abekawa, T., Okumura, M., and Saito, S. (2004) “Bilingual PRESRI: Integration of Multiple Research Paper Databases”. in Proceedings of RIAO 2004 (Avignon, France), 195-211. (485KB)
• Tajima, S., Nanba, H., and Okumura, M. (2004) “Detecting Sentence Boundaries in Japanese Speech Transcriptions Using a Morphological Analyzer”. in Proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 207-212. (61KB)

2003

• Okumura, M., Fukushima, T., and Nanba, H. (2003). “Text Summarization Challenge 2, Text Summarization Evaluation at NTCIR Workshop 3”. In Proceedings of the Text Summarization Workshop Program (DUC 2003 in Edmonton, Canada). (571KB)
• Fujiki, T., Nanba, H., and Okumura, M. (2003). “Automatic Acquisition of Script Knowledge from a Text Collection”. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2003 in Budapest, Hungary), 91-94. (281KB)

2002

• Nanba, H. and Okumura, M. (2002). “Some Examinations of Intrinsic Methods for Summary Evaluation Based on the Text Summarization Challenge (TSC)”. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002 in Las Palmas, Canary islands, Spain), 739-746. (209KB)
• Fukushima, T., Okumura, M., and Nanba, H. (2002) “Text Summarization Challenge 2 / Text Summarization Evaluation at NTCIR Workshop3” in Working Notes of the 3rd NTCIR Workshop Meeting, PART V, 1-7.

2000

• Nanba, H., Kando, N., and Okumura, M. (2000). “Classification of Research Papers using Citation Links and Citation Types: Towards Automatic Review Article Generation”. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) / the 11th SIG Classification Research Workshop, Classification for User Support and Learning in Chicago, USA, 117-134. (972KB)
• Nanba, H. and Okumura, M. (2000). “Producing More Readable Extracts by Revising Them”. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000 in Saarbrücken, Germany), 1071-1075. (424KB)

1999

• Okumura, M., Mochizuki, H., and Nanba, H. (1999). “Query-biased Summarization Based on Lexical Chaining”. In Proceedings of Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 99 in Waterloo, Canada), 324-334.
• Nanba, H. and Okumura, M. (1999). “Towards Multi-paper Summarization Using Reference Information”. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 99 in Stockholm, Sweden), 926-931. (456KB)

Other Articles

• Nanba, H. (2022) “Emotion Analysis for Tweets Regarding COVID-19 Vaccines”. ChuoOnline . [html]