Can Social Tagging Improve Web Image Search?. - Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Satoshi Oyama; Katsumi Tanaka (WISE, 2008)

Query by analogical example: relational search using web search engine indices. - Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Satoshi Oyama; Katsumi Tanaka (CIKM, 2009)

RhythMiXearch: Searching for Unknown Music by Mixing Known Music. - Makoto P. Kato (ISMIR, 2009)

Search as if you were in your home town: geographic search by regional context and dynamic feature-space selection. - Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Satoshi Oyama; Katsumi Tanaka (CIKM, 2010)

Query by example for geographic entity search with implicit negative feedback. - Makoto P. Kato; Satoshi Oyama; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (ICUIMC, 2010)

Improving Search and Information Credibility Analysis from Interaction between Web1.0 and Web2.0 Content. - Katsumi Tanaka; Satoshi Nakamura 002; Hiroaki Ohshima; Yusuke Yamamoto; Yusuke Yanbe; Makoto P. Kato (J. Softw., 2010)

Click the search button and be happy: evaluating direct and immediate information access. - Tetsuya Sakai; Makoto P. Kato; Young-In Song (CIKM, 2011)

Information Extraction based Approach for the NTCIR-9 1CLICK Task. - Makoto P. Kato; Meng Zhao; Kosetsu Tsukuda; Yoshiyuki Shoji; Takehiro Yamamoto; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (NTCIR, 2011)

Overview of NTCIR-9 1CLICK. - Tetsuya Sakai; Makoto P. Kato; Young-In Song (NTCIR, 2011)

Overview of the NTCIR-9 INTENT Task. - Ruihua Song; Min Zhang 006; Tetsuya Sakai; Makoto P. Kato; Yiqun Liu 001; Miho Sugimoto; Qinglei Wang; Naoki Orii (NTCIR, 2011)

One Click One Revisited: Enhancing Evaluation Based on Information Units. - Tetsuya Sakai; Makoto P. Kato (AIRS, 2012)

Relative Relevance Feedback in Image Retrieval. - Yuki Sugiyama; Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (ICME, 2012)

Content-based retrieval for heterogeneous domains: domain adaptation by relative aggregation points. - Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (SIGIR, 2012)

Structured query suggestion for specialization and parallel movement: effect on search behaviors. - Makoto P. Kato; Tetsuya Sakai; Katsumi Tanaka (WWW, 2012)

Clarifications and question specificity in synchronous social Q&A. - Makoto P. Kato; Ryen W. White; Jaime Teevan; Susan T. Dumais (CHI Extended Abstracts, 2013)

Overview of the NTCIR-10 1CLICK-2 Task. - Makoto P. Kato; Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg; Virgil Pavlu; Tetsuya Sakai; Takehiro Yamamoto; Mayu Iwata (NTCIR, 2013)

Information Extraction based Approach for the NTCIR-10 1CLICK-2 Task. - Tomohiro Manabe; Kosetsu Tsukuda; Kazutoshi Umemoto; Yoshiyuki Shoji; Makoto P. Kato; Takehiro Yamamoto; Meng Zhao; Soungwoong Yoon; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (NTCIR, 2013)

Exploring semi-automatic nugget extraction for Japanese one click access evaluation. - Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg; Virgil Pavlu; Makoto P. Kato; Tetsuya Sakai; Takehiro Yamamoto; Mayu Iwata (SIGIR, 2013)

Report from the NTCIR-10 1CLICK-2 Japanese subtask: baselines, upperbounds and evaluation robustness. - Makoto P. Kato; Tetsuya Sakai; Takehiro Yamamoto; Mayu Iwata (SIGIR, 2013)

Summary of the NTCIR-10 INTENT-2 task: subtopic mining and search result diversification. - Tetsuya Sakai; Zhicheng Dou; Takehiro Yamamoto; Yiqun Liu 001; Min Zhang 006; Makoto P. Kato; Ruihua Song; Mayu Iwata (SIGIR, 2013)

How Do Students Search during Class and Homework? - A Query Log Analysis for Academic Purposes. - Rafael López-García; Makoto P. Kato; Yoko Yamakata; Katsumi Tanaka (SocInfo, 2013)

Estimating content concreteness for finding comprehensible documents. - Shinya Tanaka; Adam Jatowt; Makoto P. Kato; Katsumi Tanaka (WSDM, 2013)

When do people use query suggestion? A query suggestion log analysis. - Makoto P. Kato; Tetsuya Sakai; Katsumi Tanaka (Inf. Retr., 2013)

Re-call and Re-cognition in Episode Re-retrieval: A User Study on News Re-finding a Fortnight Later. - Shuya Ochiai; Makoto P. Kato; Katsumi Tanaka (CIKM, 2014)

Overview of the NTCIR-11 MobileClick Task. - Makoto P. Kato; Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg; Virgil Pavlu; Tetsuya Sakai; Takehiro Yamamoto; Mayu Iwata (NTCIR, 2014)

Overview of the NTCIR-11 IMine Task. - Yiqun Liu 001; Ruihua Song; Min Zhang 006; Zhicheng Dou; Takehiro Yamamoto; Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Ke Zhou 003 (NTCIR, 2014)

KUIDL at the NTCIR-11 IMine Task. - Takehiro Yamamoto; Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (NTCIR, 2014)

Investigating users' query formulations for cognitive search intents. - Makoto P. Kato; Takehiro Yamamoto; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (SIGIR, 2014)

Can Diversity Improve Credibility of User Review Data? - Yoshiyuki Shoji; Makoto P. Kato; Katsumi Tanaka (SocInfo, 2014)

Finding Photo Sets of Events by Minimizing Misrecognition from Neighbor Events. - Bei Liu 001; Makoto P. Kato; Katsumi Tanaka (WAIM, 2014)

Cognitive search intents hidden behind queries: a user study on query formulations. - Makoto P. Kato; Takehiro Yamamoto; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (WWW (Companion Volume), 2014)

Two-layered Summaries for Mobile Search: Does the Evaluation Measure Reflect User Preferences? - Makoto P. Kato; Virgil Pavlu; Tetsuya Sakai; Takehiro Yamamoto; Hajime Morita (EVIA@NTCIR, 2016)

Overview of the NTCIR-12 MobileClick-2 Task. - Makoto P. Kato; Tetsuya Sakai; Takehiro Yamamoto; Virgil Pavlu; Hajime Morita; Sumio Fujita (NTCIR, 2016)

Overview of NTCIR-12. - Kazuaki Kishida; Makoto P. Kato (NTCIR, 2016)

Overview of the NTCIR-12 IMine-2 Task. - Takehiro Yamamoto; Yiqun Liu 001; Min Zhang 006; Zhicheng Dou; Ke Zhou 003; Ilya Markov; Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Sumio Fujita (NTCIR, 2016)

To Suggest, or Not to Suggest for Queries with Diverse Intents: Optimizing Search Result Presentation. - Makoto P. Kato; Katsumi Tanaka (WSDM, 2016)

Cognition-Aware Summarization of Photos Representing Events. - Bei Liu 001; Makoto P. Kato; Katsumi Tanaka (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2016)

Entity Identification on Microblogs by CRF Model with Adaptive Dependency. - Jun-Li Lu; Makoto P. Kato; Takehiro Yamamoto; Katsumi Tanaka (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 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, 2016)

Entity Ranking by Learning and Inferring Pairwise Preferences from User Reviews. - Shinryo Uchida; Takehiro Yamamoto; Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (AIRS, 2017)

Overview of NTCIR-13. - Makoto P. Kato; Yiqun Liu 001 (NTCIR, 2017)

Overview of the NTCIR-13 OpenLiveQ Task. - Makoto P. Kato; Takehiro Yamamoto; Tomohiro Manabe; Akiomi Nishida; Sumio Fujita (NTCIR, 2017)

A Comparative Live Evaluation of Multileaving Methods on a Commercial cQA Search. - Tomohiro Manabe; Akiomi Nishida; Makoto P. Kato; Takehiro Yamamoto; Sumio Fujita (SIGIR, 2017)

A Propagation-Based Method of Estimating Students' Concept Understanding. - Rafael López-García; Makoto P. Kato; Katsumi Tanaka (SocInfo (1), 2017)

Entity search by leveraging attributive terms in sentential queries over RDF data. - Wiradee Imrattanatrai; Makoto P. Kato; Katsumi Tanaka (WI, 2017)

Context-aware relevance feedback over SNS graph data. - Daisuke Kataoka; Makoto P. Kato; Takehiro Yamamoto; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (WI, 2017)

Event Identification for Explicit and Implicit References on Microblogs. - Jun-Li Lu; Makoto P. Kato; Takehiro Yamamoto; Katsumi Tanaka (J. Inf. Process., 2017)

Asian Summer School in Information Access (ASSIA 2017). - Makoto P. Kato; Takehiro Yamamoto; Hideo Joho; Masatoshi Yoshikawa (SIGIR Forum, 2017)

Challenges of Multileaved Comparison in Practice: Lessons from NTCIR-13 OpenLiveQ Task. - Makoto P. Kato; Tomohiro Manabe; Sumio Fujita; Akiomi Nishida; Takehiro Yamamoto (CIKM, 2018)

Beyond Narrative Description: Generating Poetry from Images by Multi-Adversarial Training. - Bei Liu 001; Jianlong Fu; Makoto P. Kato; Masatoshi Yoshikawa (ACM Multimedia, 2018)

Entity Ranking for Queries with Modifiers Based on Knowledge Bases and Web Search Results. - Wiradee Imrattanatrai; Makoto P. Kato; Katsumi Tanaka; Masatoshi Yoshikawa (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2018)

Evaluation-as-a-Service for the Computational Sciences: Overview and Outlook. - Frank Hopfgartner; Allan Hanbury; Henning Müller; Ivan Eggel; Krisztian Balog; Torben Brodt; Gordon V. Cormack; Jimmy Lin; Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer; Noriko Kando; Makoto P. Kato; Anastasia Krithara; et al. (ACM J. Data Inf. Qual., 2018)

Report on NTCIR-13: The Thirteenth Round of NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research. - Yiqun Liu 001; Makoto P. Kato; Charles L. A. Clarke; Noriko Kando; Tetsuya Sakai (SIGIR Forum, 2018)

Overview of NTCIR-14. - Makoto P. Kato; Yiqun Liu 001 (NTCIR, 2019)

Final Report of the NTCIR-14 OpenLiveQ-2 Task. - Makoto P. Kato; Akiomi Nishida; Tomohiro Manabe; Sumio Fujita; Takehiro Yamamoto (NTCIR (Revised Selected Papers), 2019)

Overview of the NTCIR-14 OpenLiveQ-2 Task. - Makoto P. Kato; Akiomi Nishida; Tomohiro Manabe; Sumio Fujita; Takehiro Yamamoto (NTCIR, 2019)

Identifying Entity Properties from Text with Zero-shot Learning. - Wiradee Imrattanatrai; Makoto P. Kato; Masatoshi Yoshikawa (SIGIR, 2019)

Supporting open research data practice through data curation and discovery: A global perspective. - Ying-Hsang Liu; Hsin-Liang Chen; Makoto P. Kato; Mingfang Wu; Isto Huvila (ASIST, 2020)

What Rankers Can be Statistically Distinguished in Multileaved Comparisons? - Makoto P. Kato; Akiomi Nishida; Tomohiro Manabe; Sumio Fujita; Takehiro Yamamoto (CIKM, 2020)

Context-Guided Learning to Rank Entities. - Makoto P. Kato; Wiradee Imrattanatrai; Takehiro Yamamoto; Hiroaki Ohshima; Katsumi Tanaka (ECIR (1), 2020)

Overview of NTCIR-15. - Yiqun Liu 001; Makoto P. Kato; Noriko Kando (NTCIR, 2020)

Overview of the NTCIR-15 Data Search Task. - Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Ying-Hsang Liu; Hsin-Liang Chen (NTCIR, 2020)

KASYS at the NTCIR-15 WWW-3 Task. - Kohei Shinden; Atsuki Maruta; Makoto P. Kato (NTCIR, 2020)

Cross-Domain Rating Prediction for Market Development. - Yuki Otsuka; Makoto P. Kato; Sumio Fujita; Masatoshi Yoshikawa (WI/IAT, 2020)

Searching for Microblogs Referring to Events by Deep Dynamic Query Strategies. - Jun-Li Lu; Makoto P. Kato; Takehiro Yamamoto; Katsumi Tanaka (J. Inf. Process., 2020)

Data Discovery and Reuse in Data Service Practices: A Global Perspective. - Ying-Hsang Liu; Hsin-liang Oliver Chen; Makoto P. Kato; Mingfang Wu; Kathleen Gregory (ASIST, 2021)

The Effect of News Article Quality on Ad Consumption. - Kojiro Iizuka; Yoshifumi Seki; Makoto P. Kato (CIKM, 2021)

Table Caption Generation in Scholarly Documents Leveraging Pre-trained Language Models. - Junjie H. Xu; Kohei Shinden; Makoto P. Kato (GCCE, 2021)

Decomposition and Interleaving for Variance Reduction of Post-click Metrics. - Kojiro Iizuka; Yoshifumi Seki; Makoto P. Kato (ICTIR, 2021)

Session details: Session 1C - Content Analysis. - Makoto P. Kato (ICTIR, 2021)

A Test Collection for Ad-hoc Dataset Retrieval. - Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Ying-Hsang Liu; Hsin-liang Oliver Chen (SIGIR, 2021)

Intent-Aware Visualization Recommendation for Tabular Data. - Atsuki Maruta; Makoto P. Kato (WISE (2), 2021)

Dynamic Hyperbolic Embeddings with Graph-Centralized Regularization for Recommender Systems. - Kojiro Iizuka; Makoto P. Kato; Yoshifumi Seki (J. Inf. Process., 2021)

Report on the 15th round of NII testbeds and community for information access research (NTCIR-15). - Makoto P. Kato; Yiqun Liu 001; Noriko Kando; Charles L. A. Clarke (SIGIR Forum, 2021)

Active Learning for Efficient Partial Improvement of Learning to Rank. - Koki Shibata; Makoto P. Kato (ICADL, 2022)

Can a Machine Reading Comprehension Model Improve Ad-hoc Document Retrieval? - Kota Usuha; Makoto P. Kato; Sumio Fujita (ICADL, 2022)

Preface from the NTCIR-16 General Chairs. - Noriko Kando; Charles L. A. Clarke; Makoto P. Kato; Yiqun Liu 001 (NTCIR, 2022)

Overview of the NTCIR-16 Data Search 2 Task. - Makoto P. Kato; Hiroaki Ohshima; Ying-Hsang Liu; Hsin-Liang Chen; Yu Nakano (NTCIR, 2022)

KASYS at the NTCIR-16 WWW-4 Task. - Kota Usuha; Kohei Shinden; Makoto P. Kato; Sumio Fujita (NTCIR, 2022)

Intent-Aware Data Visualization Recommendation. - Atsuki Maruta; Makoto P. Kato (Data Sci. Eng., 2022)

Report on the 16th Round of NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research (NTCIR-16). - Takehiro Yamamoto; Zhicheng Dou; Noriko Kando; Charles L. A. Clarke; Makoto P. Kato; Yiqun Liu 001 (SIGIR Forum, 2022)

Theoretical Analysis on the Efficiency of Interleaved Comparisons. - Kojiro Iizuka; Hajime Morita; Makoto P. Kato (ECIR (1), 2023)

Analyzing Web Search Queries of Before and After Purchase on e-Commerce Site. - Yuka Kawada; Takehiro Yamamoto; Hiroaki Ohshima; Yuki Yanagida; Makoto P. Kato; Sumio Fujita (ICADL (1), 2023)

KASYS at the NTCIR-17 Transfer Task. - Kenya Abe; Kota Usuha; Makoto P. Kato (NTCIR, 2023)

Preface from the NTCIR-17 General Chairs. - Makoto P. Kato; Noriko Kando; Charles L. A. Clarke; Yiqun Liu 001 (NTCIR, 2023)

Overview of the NTCIR-17 UFO Task. - Yasutomo Kimura; Hokuto Ototake; Kazuma Kadowaki; Takahito Kondo; Makoto P. Kato (NTCIR, 2023)

What Web Search Behaviors Lead to Online Purchase Satisfaction? - Yuki Yanagida; Makoto P. Kato; Yuka Kawada; Takehiro Yamamoto; Hiroaki Ohshima; Sumio Fujita (WebSci, 2023)

FinTech on the Web: An Overview. - Chung-Chi Chen 001; Hen-Hsen Huang; Hiroya Takamura; Makoto P. Kato; Yu-Lieh Huang (ACM Trans. Web, 2023)

Report on the 46th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023): Reflections from the Program Co-Chairs. - Makoto P. Kato; Josiane Mothe; Barbara Poblete (SIGIR Forum, 2023)

Inference-Based No-Learning Approach on Pre-Trained BERT Model Retrieval. - Huu-Long Pham; Ryota Mibayashi; Takehiro Yamamoto; Makoto P. Kato; Yusuke Yamamoto; Yoshiyuki Shoji; Hiroaki Ohshima (BigComp, 2024)

Over-penalization for Extra Information in Neural IR Models. - Kota Usuha; Makoto P. Kato; Sumio Fujita (CIKM, 2024)

The First Workshop on Evaluation Methodologies, Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research (EMTCIR 2024). - Makoto P. Kato; Noriko Kando; Charles L. A. Clarke; Yiqun Liu 001 (SIGIR-AP, 2024)

PR-Rank: A Parameter Regression Approach for Learning-to-Rank Model Adaptation Without Target Domain Data. - Takumi Ito; Atsuki Maruta; Makoto P. Kato; Sumio Fujita (WISE (4), 2024)

Eliciting Implicit Information Needs in E-Commerce Search by Using the Think-Aloud Method. - Kosetsu Tsukuda; Atsuki Maruta; Makoto P. Kato; Hideo Joho (CHIIR, 2025)

Investigating the Performance of Dense Retrievers for Queries with Numerical Conditions. - Haruki Fujimaki; Makoto P. Kato (ECIR (3), 2025)

Enhancing User Understanding of Entity Relationships with Knowledge Graphs: A Dataset for Multi-entity Relationship Explanation. - Wiradee Imrattanatrai; Makoto P. Kato; Ken Fukuda (HCI (61), 2025)

KASYS at the NTCIR-18 SUSHI Task. - Haruki Fujimaki; Makoto P. Kato (NTCIR, 2025)

Preface from the NTCIR-18 General Chairs. - Makoto P. Kato; Noriko Kando; Charles L. A. Clarke; Yiqun Liu 001 (NTCIR, 2025)

LLM-based Query Expansion Fails for Unfamiliar and Ambiguous Queries. - Kenya Abe; Kunihiro Takeoka; Makoto P. Kato; Masafumi Oyamada (SIGIR, 2025)

Pre-trained BERT Model Retrieval: Inference-Based No-Learning Approach using k-Nearest Neighbour Algorithm. - Huu-Long Pham; Ryota Mibayashi; Takehiro Yamamoto; Makoto P. Kato; Yusuke Yamamoto; Yoshiyuki Shoji; Hiroaki Ohshima (IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2025)

Editorial. - Djoerd Hiemstra; Ismail Sengor Altingovde; Solomon Atnafu; Daniela Godoy; Ben He; Makoto P. Kato; Shangsong Liang; Haiming Liu 002; Vanessa Murdock 001; Monica Lestari Paramita; Barbara Poblete; Negin Rahimi; et al. (Inf. Retr. Res. J., 2025)