FIRE 2017
FIRE 2017 Working Notes

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Parth Mehta, Jainisha Sankhavara

Gender Identification in Russian texts

• Overview of the RUSProfiling PAN at FIRE Track on Cross-genre Gender Identification in Russian 1-7
  Tatiana Litvinova, Francisco Rangel, Paolo Rosso, Pavel Seredin, Olga Litvinova
• AmritaNLP@PAN-RusProfiling : Author Profiling using Machine Learning Techniques 8-12
  Vivek Vinayan, Naveen J R, Harikrishnan NB, Anand Kumar M, Soman KP
• Gender Identification in Russian Texts 13-16
  Rupal Bhargava, Gunjan Goel, Anjali Shah, Yashvardhan Sharma
• Cross-genre Gender Identification in Russian Texts Using Topic Modeling Working Note: Team DUBL 17-19
  Gabriella Skitalinskaya, Liliya Akhtyamova, John Cardiff
• The Winning Approach to Cross-Genre Gender Identification in Russian at RUSProfiling 2017 20-24
  Ilia Markov, Helena Gómez-Adorno, Grigori Sidorov, Alexander Gelbukh
• Representation of Target Classes for Text Classification - AMRITA_CEN_NLP@RusProfiling PAN 2017 25-27
  Barathi Ganesh HB, Reshma U, Anand Kumar M, Soman KP

Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters

• Overview of the FIRE 2017 track: Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis) 28-33
  Moumita Basu, Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Monojit Choudhury
• Detecting the Need for Resources and their Availability 34-37
  Nelleke Oostdijk, Ali Hürriyetoglu
• BITS_PILANI@IMRiDis-FIRE 2017:Information Retrieval from Microblog during Disasters 38-40
  Arka Talukdar, Rupal Bhargava, Yashvardhan Sharma
• DataBros@Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters(IRMiDis) 41-42
  Naveen Kumar, Mradul Dubey
• Automatic Retrieval of Actionable Information from Disaster-related Microblogs 43-45
  Saloni Baweja, Aniya Aggarwal, Vikram Goyal, Sameep Mehta
• Automatic Identification and Ranking of Emergency Aids in Social Media Macro Community 46-49
  Bhaskar Gautam, Annappa Basava
• Tweet classification using Semantic Word-Embedding with Logistic Regression 50-51
  Muhammad Rafi, Saeed Ahmed, Fawwad Ahmed, Fawzan Ahmed
• HLJIT2017-IRMIDIS@IRMiDis-FIRE2017:Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters 52-54
  Zhao Zicheng, Ning Hui , Zhuang Ziyao, Zhao Jinmei, Li Jun
• A Hybrid Model For Information Retrieval From Microblogs During Disaster 55-58
  Du Xin, Wang Xiaoyu, Zhuang Ziyao, Qi Limin
• IIT BHU at FIRE 2017 IRMiDis Track - Fully Automatic Approaches to Information Retrieval 59-60
  Harshit Mehrotra, Ribhav Soni, Sukomal Pal
• Use of the Pole-based Overlapping Clustering Method for Labeling Tweets @ IRMiDis FIRE 2017 61-62
  Noushin Fadaei, Thomas Mandl

Information Retrieval from Legal Documents

• Overview of the FIRE 2017 IRLeD Track: Information Retrieval from Legal Documents 63-68
  Arpan Mandal, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Arnab Bhattacharya, Arindam Pal, Saptarshi Ghosh
• Distributed Representation in Information Retrieval - AMRITA_CEN_NLP@IRLeD 2017 69-71
  Barathi Ganesh HB, Reshma U, Anand Kumar M, Soman KP
• Catchphrase Extraction from Legal Documents Using LSTM Networks 72-73
  Rupal Bhargava, Sukrut Nigwekar, Yashvardhan Sharma
• An Extraction based approach to Keyword Generation and Precedence Retrieval: BITS Pilani - Hyderabad 74-77
  G. V. Sandeep, Shikhar Bharadwaj
• Catch Phrase Extraction from Legal Documents Using Deep Neural Network 78-79
  Sourav Das, Ranojoy Barua
• Automatic Cited Decision Retrieval: Working notes of Ielab for FIRE Legal Track Precedence Retrieval Task 80-81
  Daniel Locke, Guido Zuccon
• HLJIT2017@IRLed-FIRE2017: Information Retrieval From Legal Documents 82-85
  Liuyang Tian, Hui Ning, Leilei Kong, Zhongyuan Han, Ruiming Xiao, Haoliang Qi
• Detection of Catchphrases and Precedence in Legal Documents 86-89
  Yogesh H. Kulkarni, Rishabh Patil, Srinivasan Shridharan
• A Text Similarity Approach for Precedence Retrieval from Legal Documents 90-91
  D. Thenmozhi, Kawshik Kannan, Chandrabose Aravindan
• On the importance of Legal Catchphrases in Precedence Retrieval 92-94
  Edwin Thuma, Nkwebi P. Motlogelwa
• Machine Learning Approaches for Catchphrase Extraction in Legal Documents 95-98
  Tshepho Koboyatshwene, Moemedi Lefoane, Lakshmi Narasimhan

Indian Native Language Identification

• Overview of the INLI PAN at FIRE-2017 Track on Indian Native Language Identification 99-105
  Anand Kumar M, Barathi Ganesh HB, Shivkaran Singh, Soman KP, Paolo Rosso
• Mangalore-University@INLI-FIRE-2017: Indian Native Language Identification using Support Vector Machines and Ensemble approach 106-109
  Hamada A Nayel, H L Shashirekha
• Bharathi SSN @ INLI-FIRE-2017:SVM based approach for Indian Native Language Identification 110-112
  Bharathi B, Anirudh M, Bhuvana J
• SSN_NLP@INLI-FIRE-2017: A Neural Network Approach to Indian Native Language Identification 113-114
  D. Thenmozi, Kawshik Kannan, Chandrabose Aravindhan
• BMSCE_ISE@INLI-FIRE-2017: A simple n-gram based approach for Native Language Identification 115-117
  Sowmya Lakshmi B S, Shambhavi B R
• DalTeam@INLI-FIRE-2017: Native Language Identification using SVM with SGD Training 118-122
  Dijana Kosmajac, Vlado Keselj
• Bits_Pilani@INLI-FIRE-2017:Indian Native Language Identification using Deep Learning 123-126
  Rupal Bhargava, Jaspreet Singh, Shivangi Arora, Yashvardhan Sharma
• SeerNet@INLI-FIRE-2017: Hierarchical Ensemble for Indian Native Language Identification 127-129
  Royal Jain, Venkatesh Duppada, Sushant Hiray

Event Extraction from Newswires and Social Media Text in Indian Languages

• EventXtract-IL: Event Extraction from Social Media Text in Indian Languages @ FIRE 2017 - An Overview 130-135
  Pattabhi RK Rao, Sobha Lalitha Devi
• An Event Extraction System via Neural Networks 136-139
  Alapan Kuila, Sudeshna Sarkar
• Event Extraction from Social Media text using Conditional Random Fields 140-143
  Nagesh Bhattu Sristy, N. Satya Krishna, D V L N Somayajulu
• KEC_DAlab @ EventXtract-IL-FIRE2017: Event Extraction using Support Vector Machines 144-146
  Sharmila Devi V, Kannimuthu S, Safeeq G, Anand Kumar M
• Development of an Event Extraction System from Newswires and Social media texts for Malayalam- An Experiment 147-148
  Manju K, Sumam Mary Idicula, David Peter S

Doctoral Consortium @ FIRE 2017

• Why-type Question Classification in Question Answering System 149-153
  Manvi Breja, Sanjay Kumar Jain
• Biomedical Information Retrieval 154-157
  Jainisha Sankhavara, Prasenjit Majumder
• An Insight into Role of Wordnet and Language Network for effective IR from Hindi Text Documents 158-163
  Manju Lata Joshi, Namita Mittal, Nisheeth Joshi
• Microblog Processing: A Study 164-167
  Sandip Modha