Tomohiro Manabe > All Publications in English

• Tomohiro Manabe (advised by Prof. Keishi Tajima).
  Extracting Hierarchical Heading Structure from Web Pages.
  Master Thesis, Kyoto University, 2013.
• Tomohiro Manabe, Kosetsu Tsukuda, Kazutoshi Umemoto, Yoshiyuki Shoji, Makoto P. Kato,
  Takehiro Yamamoto, Meng Zhao, Soungwoong Yoon, Hiroaki Ohshima, and Katsumi Tanaka.
  Information Extraction based Approach for the NTCIR-10 1CLICK-2 Task.
  In NTCIR, pp. 243-249, 2013.
  • Poster
• Tomohiro Manabe and Keishi Tajima.
  Extracting Logical Hierarchical Structure of HTML Documents Based on Headings.
  The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 1606-1617, August 2015.
  • Reference implementation, data set, annotation tools, slides, and poster
• Tomohiro Manabe and Keishi Tajima.
  Heading-Aware Snippet Generation for Web Search.
  Information Retieval Technology (AIRS Proceedings), LNCS, vol. 9460, pp. 188-200, 2015.
  • Author version (The final publication is available at link.springer.com)
  • Evaluation results and slides
• Tomohiro Manabe and Keishi Tajima.
  Heading-Aware Proximity Measure and Its Application to Web Search.
  DBSJ Journal, vol. 14, article no. 2, March 2016.
  • System output
• Tomohiro Manabe (advised by Prof. Keishi Tajima).
  Web Search Based on Hierarchical Heading-Block Structure Analysis.
  Doctoral Dissertation, Kyoto University, 2016.
  • Details (on Kyoto University Research Information Repository, including a link to the full text)
• Tomohiro Manabe and Keishi Tajima.
  Subtopic Ranking Based on Hierarchical Headings.
  In WEBIST, pp. 121-130, 2016.
  • SCITEPRESS Digital Library (Full Text Download)
  • Evaluation results and slides
• Tomohiro Manabe and Keishi Tajima.
  Heading-Aware Proximity Measure and Its Application to Web Search.
  (the reprint of our DBSJ Journal vol. 14 paper)
  Information and Media Technologies, vol. 11, pp. 154-159, June 2016.
  • System output (identical to our DBSJ Journal vol. 14 system output)
• Tomohiro Manabe, Akiomi Nishida, Makoto P. Kato, Takehiro Yamamoto, and Sumio Fujita.
  A Comparative Live Evaluation of Multileaving Methods on a Commercial cQA Search.
  In SIGIR, pp. 949-952, 2017.
  • Details (on ACM Digital Library, including a link to the full text)
  • Reference implementation

• Tomohiro Manabe and Sumio Fujita.
  A Short Note on Proximity-based Scoring of Documents with Multiple Fields.
  CoRR, arXiv:1709.03260 [cs.IR], September 2017.

• Tomohiro Manabe and Keishi Tajima.
  Subtopic Ranking Based on Block-Level Document Analysis.
  (the extended version of our WEBIST 2016 conference paper)
  Web Information Systems and Technologies, LNBIP, vol. 292, pp. 83-104, September 2017.
  • Author version (The final publication is available at link.springer.com)
  • Evaluation results (identical to our WEBIST 2016 results)

• Noriko Kando, Sumio Fujita, Makoto P. Kato, and Tomohiro Manabe (Eds.)
  Proceedings of the 13th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies,
  December 5-8, 2017 Tokyo Japan.
  National Institute of Informatics, December 2017.

• Makoto P. Kato, Takehiro Yamamoto, Tomohiro Manabe, Akiomi Nishida, and Sumio Fujita.
  Overview of the NTCIR-13 OpenLiveQ Task.
  In NTCIR, pp. 85-90, 2017.
  • Slides and poster
• Tomohiro Manabe, Akiomi Nishida, and Sumio Fujita.
  YJRS at the NTCIR-13 OpenLiveQ Task.
  In NTCIR, pp.91-96, 2017.
  • Slides and poster
• Makoto P. Kato, Tomohiro Manabe, Sumio Fujita, Akiomi Nishida, and Takehiro Yamamoto.
  Challenges of Multileaved Comparison in Practice: Lessons from NTCIR-13 OpenLiveQ Task.
  In CIKM, pp. 1515-1518, 2018.
  • Details (on ACM Digital Library, including a link to the full text)
• Makoto P. Kato, Akiomi Nishida, Tomohiro Manabe, Sumio Fujita and Takehiro Yamamoto.
  Overview of the NTCIR-14 OpenLiveQ-2 Task.
  In NTCIR, pp. 81-89, 2019.
  • Slides and poster
• Tomohiro Manabe, Sumio Fujita, and Akiomi Nishida.
  YJRS at the NTCIR-14 OpenLiveQ-2 Task.
  In NTCIR, pp. 96-104, 2019.
  • Slides and poster

• Makoto P. Kato, Akiomi Nishida, Tomohiro Manabe, Sumio Fujita and Takehiro Yamamoto.
  Final Report of the NTCIR-14 OpenLiveQ-2 Task.
  (the extended version of our NTCIR-14 OpenLiveQ-2 task overview paper)
  NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research (NTCIR Post-Conference Proceedings),
  LNCS, vol. 11966, pp. 45-56, 2019.

• Tomohiro Manabe, Sumio Fujita, and Akiomi Nishida.
  Online Evaluations of Features and Ranking Models for Question Retrieval.
  (the extended version of our NTCIR-14 OpenLiveQ-2 task participation paper)
  NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research (NTCIR Post-Conference Proceedings),
  LNCS, vol. 11966, pp. 57-69, 2019.

• Makoto P. Kato, Akiomi Nishida, Tomohiro Manabe, Sumio Fujita, and Takehiro Yamamoto.
  What Rankers Can be Statistically Distinguished in Multileaved Comparisons?
  In CIKM, pp. 2081-2084, 2020.
  • Details (on ACM Digital Library, including a link to the full text)
• Yuki Amemiya, Tomohiro Manabe, Sumio Fujita, and Tetsuya Sakai.
  How Do Users Revise Zero-Hit Product Search Queries?
  Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR Proceedings), Part II, LNCS, vol. 12657, pp. 185–192, 2021.
  • Details (on SpringerLink, including a link to the full text)