13:30-14:00

Registration

Foyer

14:00-15:00

Tutorial I

Cross-domain and Cross-modality Event Mining and Retrieval
Zhenguo YANG

Chairperson: Fu Lee WANG

Council Chamber

15:00-16:00

Tutorial II

Generative Adversarial Network and its Applications to Natural Language and Speech Processing
Hung-yi LEE

Chairperson: Dingkun ZHU

Council Chamber

16:00-16:20

Refreshment Break

Tai Ning Hall

16:20-17:20

Tutorial III

Leveraging Knowledge for Short Text Analysis
Yi CAI

Chairperson: Mingqiang WEI

Council Chamber

17:20-18:20

Tutorial IV

Sentiment and Emotion Detection over Text
Yanghui RAO

Chairperson: Jingjiang WANG

Council Chamber

08:30-09:00

Registration

Foyer

09:00-09:10

Opening Ceremony

Council Chamber

09:10-09:15

Group Photo

Foyer

09:15-10:25

Keynote Speech

Event Modeling and Mining: Towards Explainable Events with a Plank Road
Prof Qing LI

Chairperson: Yi CAI

Council Chamber

10:25-10:55

Refreshment break

Tai Ning Hall

10:55-12:10

Paper Presentation I
Chairperson: Haoran XIE

Randomised vs. Prioritised Pools for Relevance Assessments: Sample Size Considerations
Tetsuya Sakai and Peng Xiao

Towards Automatic Evaluation of Reused Answers in Community Question Answering
Hsin-Wen Liu, Sumio Fujita and Tetsuya Saka

On The Pluses and Minuses of Risk
Rodger Benham, Alistair Moffat and Shane Culpepper

Council Chamber

12:10-14:00

Lunch

Tai Ning Hall

14:00-15:40

Paper Presentation II
Chairperson: Keith LEE

Weighted N-grams CNN for Text Classification
Zequan Zeng, Yi Cai, Fu Lee Wang, Haoran Xie and Junying Chen

Generating Short Product Descriptors based on Very Little Training Data
Peng Xiao, Joo-Young Lee, Sijie Tao, Young-Sook Hwang and Tetsuya Sakai

Arc Loss: Softmax with Additive Angular Margin for Answer Retrieval
Rikiya Suzuki, Sumio Fujita and Tetsuya Sakai

Cross-Level Matching Model for Information Retrieval
Yifan Nie and Jian-Yun Nie

Council Chamber

15:40-16:10

Refreshment break

Tai Ning Hall

16:10-17:50

Paper Presentation III
Chairperson: Tetsuya SAKAI

Detecting Emerging Rumors by Embedding Propagation Graphs
Dang-Thinh Vu and Jason Jung

LGLMF: Local Geographical based Logistic Matrix Factorization Model for POI Recommendation
Hossein A. Rahmani, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Sajad Ahmadian, Mitra Baratchi, Mohsen Afsharchi and Fabio Crestani

Understanding and Improving Neural Ranking Models From a Term Dependence View
Yixing Fan, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan and Xueqi Cheng

Unsupervised Answer Retrieval with Data Fusion for Community Question Answering
Sosuke Kato, Toru Shimizu, Sumio Fujita and Tetsuya Sakai

Council Chamber

18:30-20:30

Conference Banquet

Star Seafood and Roasted Goose Restaurant

08:30-09:00

Foyer

09:00-10:15

Paper Presentation IV
Chairperson: Alistair MOFFAT

Experiments with Cross-Language SpeechRetrieval for Lower-Resource Languages
Suraj Nair, Anton Ragni, Ondrej Klejch, Petra Galuščáková and Douglas Oard

Context-aware Collaborative Ranking
Wei Dai, Weike Pan and Zhong Ming

A Semantic Expansion-Based Joint Model for Answer Ranking in Chinese Question Answering Systems
Wenxiu Xie, Leung-Pun Wong, Lap-Kei Lee, Oliver Au and Tianyong Hao

Council Chamber

10:15-10:45

Refreshment break

Tai Ning Hall

10:45-12:00

Paper Presentation V
Chairperson: Masahara YOSHIOKA

Improving Arabic Microblog Retrieval with Distributed Representations
Raghad Alshalan, Shahad Alshalan, Hend Alkhalifa, Reem Suwaileh and Tamer Elsayed

LODeDeC: A Framework for Integration of Entity Relations from Knowledge Graphs
Sini Govinda Pillai, Lay-Ki Soon and Haw Su-Cheng

Context-aware Helpfulness Prediction for Online Product Reviews
Iyiola E. Olatunji, Xin Li and Wai Lam

Council Chamber

12:00-12:10

Closing Ceremony

Council Chamber

12:10-14:00

Lunch

Tai Ning Hall

Council Chamber

12/F, Block A, OUHK

Tai Ning Hall:

12/F, Block A, OUHK

Foyer:

12/F, Block A, OUHK

Star Seafood and Roasted Goose Restaurant:

Shop 203-205, 2/F, Homantin Plaza, 80 Fat Kwong Street, Ho Man Tin