Keynote Talk -- From Information to Intelligence: The Role of Relative Significance in Decision Making and Inference -- Mining Knowledge -- Comparing LDA with pLSI as a Dimensionality Reduction Method in Document Clustering -- Identification of MCMC Samples for Clustering -- TGC-Tree: An Online Algorithm Tracing Closed Itemset and Transaction Set Simultaneously -- Extracting Concepts from Religious Knowledge Resources and Constructing Classic Analysis Systems -- What Types of Translations Hide in Wikipedia? -- Initial Solution Set Improvement for a Genetic Algorithm in a Metadata Generation Support System for Landscape Photographs -- Identifying Semantic Relations in Japanese Compound Nouns for Patent Documents Analysis -- Extracting Prehistories of Software Refactorings from Version Archives -- Building Resources -- Initiatives, Tendencies and Driving Forces for a “Lexical Web” as Part of a “Language Infrastructure” -- Corpus Annotation/Management Tools for the Project: Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese -- Capturing the Structures in Association Knowledge: Application of Network Analyses to Large-Scale Databases of Japanese Word Associations -- Construction of a Probabilistic Hierarchical Structure Based on a Japanese Corpus and a Japanese Thesaurus -- CHISE: Character Processing Based on Character Ontology -- Systematization of Knowledge about Performative Verbs: Capturing Speaker’s Intention -- Toward Construction of a Corpus of English Learners’ Utterances Annotated with Speaker Proficiency Profiles: Data Collection and Sample Annotation -- Filling the Gap between a Large-Scale Database and Multimodal Interactions -- Design and Prototype of a Large-Scale and Fully Sense-Tagged Corpus -- Image and Video -- Soccer Formation Classification Based on Fisher Weight Map and Gaussian Mixture Models -- Supervised Learning of Similarity Measures for Content-Based 3D Model Retrieval -- Automatic Score Scene Detection for Baseball Video -- Using Resources -- Large Scale e-Language Laboratory Based on Web 2.0 -- Distant Collocations between Suppositional Adverbs and Clause-Final Modality Forms in Japanese Language Corpora -- Using Singular Value Decomposition to Compute Answer Similarity in a Language Independent Approach to Question Answering -- On the Representation of Perceptual Knowledge for Understanding Reference Expressions -- A Computational Model of Risk-Context-Dependent Inductive Reasoning Based on a Support Vector Machine -- Order Retrieval -- Stylistic Analysis of Japanese Prime Ministers’ Diet Addresses -- Evaluation of Logical Thinking Ability through Contributions in a Learning Community -- Infrastructure -- Web Architecture and Naming for Knowledge Resources -- Towards Better Evaluation for Human Language Technology -- An Effective Scheduling Scheme for Information Searching with Computational Resources Scattered over a Large-Scale Network.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Large-Scale Knowledge Resources, LKR 2008, held in Tokyo, Japan, in March 2008. The 14 revised full papers and 12 revised poster papers that are presented together with 6 invited papers and 1 keynote lecture were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on mining knowledge, building resources, image and video, using resources, and infrastructure.