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- 2024.03.04
- NTCIR-18 Kickoff Meeting will be held on Friday, March 29, 2024. For more information and registration, please see here.
- 2024.01.29
-
NTCIR-18 Call for Task Proposals released. (due: Feb 9, 2024)
- 2024.01.29
- The NTCIR-17 Conference ended successfully.
Thank you very much for your participation, cooperation, support, and interest.
- 2023.10.18
- NTCIR-17 Conference is approaching soon!
For the detailed information, please refer NTCIR-17 Conference
Webpage.
We are looking forward to welcoming all of you in Tokyo.
- 2023.07.12
- Task participation was closed for all tasks. Thank you for your registration.
- 2023.01.06
- NTCIR-17 Task Registration Started
(Deadline: [please see here])
- 2022.11.25
- The videos and slides for the Tutorial
at the NTCIR-16 Conference by Prof. Tetsuya Sakai are now available online.
- 2022.11.09
- The NTCIR-17 Program Committee has accepted the
following pilot task, which has been conditionally accepted.
UFO
- 2022.09.15
- Call for participation to the NTCIR-17
Kick-Off Event released.
[Registration]
- 2022.09.15
- The NTCIR-17 Program Committee has selected the
following five Tasks. One more proposals are conditionally accepted and still
under review.
FinArg, MedNLP-SC, QA Lab-PoliInfo-4, FariWeb-1, Transfer.
- 2022.06.30
- NTCIR-16 Presentation Awards page released.
- 2022.06.23
- The NTCIR-16 Conference ended successfully.
Thank you for your participation, cooperation and interest.
- 2022.06.14
- NTCIR-16 Online
Proceedings are available here.
- 2022.05.19
- NTCIR-16 Conference Online Registration
opened!
- 2022.05.17
- NTCIR-17 Call for Task Proposals
released.(due: July 8, 2022) [CFP]
- 2022.05.13
- NTCIR-16
Conference Program at a glance released
- 2022.05.13
- In response to the pandemic of COVID-19, NTCIR-16 Conference will be a fully online
conference with the same schedule.
For more details, please consult "ntcir-covid19".
- 2022.02.10
- NTCIR-16 Paper Submission
Instruction released.
- 2021.09.30
- NTCIR-16 Conference
webpage released.
- 2021.05.10
- NTCIR-16 Task Registration Started (Deadline:
[ please see here])
- 2021.04.01
- Slides for NTCIR-16 Kick-Off Event
released.
- 2021.03.15
- Call for participation to the NTCIR-16
Kick-Off Event released. [CFP]
- 2021.01.28
- The NTCIR-16 Program Committee has selected the
following ten Tasks.
FinNum-3, DialEval-2, WWW-4, QA Lab-PoliInfo-3, Data Search 2, SS, Real-MedNLP, ULTRE,
Lifelog-4, RCIR.
- 2020.12.21
- NTCIR-16 Call for Additional Task
Proposals released. (
due: January 15, 2021 CLOSED) [CFP]
- 2020.12.21
- NTCIR-15 Presentation Awards page released.
- 2020.12.15
- The NTCIR-15 Conference ended successfully.
Thank you for your participation, cooperation and interest.
- 2020.12.08
- NTCIR-15 Online
Proceedings are available here.
- 2020.11.26
- Deadline Extended: NTCIR-16 Call
for Task Proposals (due:
November 27, 2020 December 4, 2020) [CFP]
- 2020.11.18
- NTCIR-15 Conference Online Registration
opened!
- 2020.11.16
- NTCIR-15
Conference Program at a glance released
- 2020.11.16
-
A book-review for the NTCIR book is available at: https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2020/10/book-review-evaluating-information-retrieval-and-access-tasks-ntcirs-legacy-of-research-impact/
- 2020.10.27
- Now Publishing License Agreement for the
Proceedings NTCIR-15 is available.Please fill in the form and submit it to
us electronically (scanned file with signature) by e-mail by Nov 13,
2020 (extended).
- 2020.10.15
- NTCIR-15 Conference
webpage released.
- 2020.10.15
- In response to the pandemic of COVID-19, NTCIR-15 Conference will be a fully online
conference with the same schedule.
For more details, please consult "ntcir-covid19".
- 2020.09.24
- New book on NTCIR now available from Springer - it's OPEN ACCESS!
Sakai, T., Oard, D., and Kando, N. (eds.): Evaluating Information Retrieval and Access
Tasks: NTCIR’s Legacy of Research Impact, Springer, 2020.
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811555534
- 2020.08.25
- NTCIR-15 Paper Submission
Instruction released.
- 2019.11.21
- NTCIR-15 Task Registration Started (Deadline:
[ please see
here])
- 2019.10.17
- NTCIR-15 Task Overveiw released.
- 2019.10.10
- Slides for NTCIR-15 Kick-Off Event
released.
- 2019.09.12
- Call for participation to the NTCIR-15
Kick-Off Event released. [CFP]
- 2019.08.05
- The NTCIR-15 Task Selection Committee has selected the following seven Tasks.
Data Search, DialEval-1, FinNum-2, MART, QA Lab-PoliInfo-2, SHINRA2020-ML, WWW-3.
- 2019.07.10
- The NTCIR-14 Conference and EVIA 2019 ended
successfully. Thank you for your participation, cooperation and interest.
- 2019.06.10
- NTCIR-14 and
EVIA 2019 Online Proceedings are available here.
- 2019.05.27
- NTCIR-15 Call for Task Proposals
released.(due: June 6, 2019) [CFP]
- 2019.04.25
- NTCIR-14 & EVIA 2019 Conference Online
Registration opened! (Online-registration
until
May 31 June 3; Early registration due: May 6.)
- 2019.02.05
- NTCIR-14 Online Proceedings
Submission Instruction ・ Post-conference Proceedings Submission Instruction ・ Poster and Demo Instruction
and Oral Presentations
Instruction released.
- 2019.01.08
- NTCIR-14 Task participation was closed for all tasks. Thank you for your registration.
- 2018.11.20
- NTCIR-14 Conference
webpage and EVIA 2019
CFP released.
- 2018.10.09
- NTCIR-14 Task Registration is still possible in
some tasks.
- 2018.08.27
- NTCIR-13 Test collections (MedWeb) is available for
research purposes.
- 2018.08.23
- NTCIR-14 User Agreement Form (for
Lifelog/STC/WWW/CENTRE/FinNum task) released.
- 2018.07.19
- NTCIR-14 FinNum (new additional pilottask)
: registration has
started.
- 2018.06.08
- NTCIR-14 User Agreement Form (for OpenLiveQ/QALab
task) released.
- 2018.05.14
- NTCIR-14 Task Registration Started (Deadline:
[ please see here]) (CFP is here). [Flyer]
- 2018.04.02
- Call for Additional Pilot Task
Proposals for NTCIR-14 (Due: May 20, 2018) released. [CFP]
- 2018.04.02
- NTCIR-14 Task Overveiw released.
- 2018.02.15
- Call for Participation to the NTCIR-14 Kick-Off
Event released. [CFP]
- 2018.01.16
- The NTCIR-13 Conference and EVIA 2017 ended
successfully. Thank you for your participation, cooperation and interest.
- 2017.08.23
- NTCIR-14 Call for Task Proposals
released.
- 2017.06.09
- NTCIR-13 Task Registration is still possible
in Lifelog, STC (Japanese), NAILS
- 2017.04.21
- NTCIR-13 User Agreement Form (for MedWeb task)
released
- 2017.01.20
- NTCIR-12 Test collections (MathIR) is available for
research purposes.
- 2017.01.18
- a report on NTCIR-12 Conference for the SIGIR Forum
December Edition (journal of ACM SIGIR) is now online (the report, please see here).
- 2016.12.16
- NTCIR-13 Task Registration is still possible
in each task after Dec. 15 (due vary across tasks)
- 2016.12.07
- NTCIR-13 User Agreement Form (for ECA task)
released
- 2016.12.02
- NTCIR-13 User Agreement Form (for Lifelog task)
released
- 2016.11.17
- NTCIR-13 User Agreement Form (for
AKG/OpenLiveQ/QALab task) released
- 2016.11.07
- NTCIR-13 User Agreement Form (for STC/NAILS/WWW
task) released
- 2016.10.14
- NTCIR-13 Task Registration Started (CFP is here). [Flyer]
- 2016.09.27
- NTCIR-12 Test collections (MedNLPDoc) is available
for research purposes.
- 2016.09.15
- NTCIR-12 Test collections
(IMine,MobileClick,Temporalia,Lifelog) are available for research purposes.
- 2016.09.13
- Call for Additional Pilot Task
Proposals for NTCIR-13 (Due: Oct 31, 2016) released. [CFP]
- 2016.09.08
- Slides for NTCIR-13 Kick-Off Event
released.
- 2016.08.19
- NTCIR-13 Task Overveiw released.
- 2016.08.16
- Call for Participation to the NTCIR-13
Kick-Off Event released. [CFP]
- 2016.07.05
- Photo Albums of the NTCIR-12 Conference
and EVIA 2016 are available here.
- 2016.06.14
- The NTCIR-12 Conference and EVIA 2016 ended
successfully. Thank you for your participation, cooperation and interest.
- 2016.06.07
- NTCIR-12 and EVIA 2016 Online
Proceedings are available here.
- 2016.04.15
- NTCIR-12 & EVIA 2016 Conference Online
Registration opened! (Online-registration
until May 27; Early registration due: May 10.)
- 2016.04.06
- EVIA 2016 paper submission deadline extended to Apr
11.
- 2016.03.18
- Call for Task Proposals for
NTCIR-13 (Due: Apr 28, 2016) released.
- 2016.01.28
- NTCIR-12 Conference and Paper Submission Instructions released.
- 2015.10.13
- NTCIR-11/10 Submission Archives are
available for research purposes (except some tasks).
- 2015.10.08
- User agreement form for Yahoo! Japan Data for
NTCIR-12 IMine/MobileClick Japanese Subtask participant released.
- 2015.10.06
- NTCIR-11 MedNLP Test collection
is available for research purposes.
- 2015.09.01
- NTCIR-12 user agreement form (for MathIR)
released.
- 2015.07.31
- NTCIR-12 Task Registration is still possible
in each task.
- 2015.07.31
- NTCIR-12 MathIR (new additional
coretask) : registration has started.
- 2015.07.31
- NTCIR-12 STC Japanese
subtask : registration has started.
- 2015.07.13
- NTCIR-12 user agreement form (for IMine,
MobileClick) released. The agreement forms for NTCIR-12 Search query data will
be announced separately.
- 2015.06.24
- NTCIR-12 call for task participation deadline
extension (July 31, 2015) (We will start distributing the
data on July 1st as originally planned,
after we receive the memorandums from your group).
- 2015.06.24
- NTCIR-12 user agreement form (for Lifelog)
released.
- 2015.06.16
- NTCIR-12 user agreement form (for MedNLPDoc)
released.
- 2015.05.29
- NTCIR-12 user agreement form (for QA Lab)
released.
- 2015.05.15
- NTCIR-11 Temporalia Test
collection is available for research purposes.
- 2015.04.20
- NTCIR-12 Call for Additional Pilot Task Proposal
released. (CFP is here.)
- 2015.04.10
- NTCIR-12 user agreement form (for
SpokenQuery&Doc, Temporalia) released.
- 2015.04.06
- Call for Participation to the NTCIR-12 Tasks
released. [Flyer]
- 2015.03.30
- NTCIR-11 MATH Test collection is
available for research purposes.
- 2015.03.23
- Video Recordings and Slides for NTCIR-12
Kick-Off Event available.
- 2015.02.27
- NTCIR-12 Task Registration started.
- 2015.02.20
- NTCIR-11 IMine Test collection
is available for research purposes.
- 2015.02.18
- NTCIR-11 MobileClick Test
collection is available for research purposes.
- 2015.02.17
- NTCIR-10 1CLICK Test collection
is available for research purposes.
- 2015.01.20
- Call for Participation to the NTCIR-12
Kick-Off Event released. [CFP]
- 2014.12.15
- Photo Albums of NTCIR-11 Conference and
EVIA 2014 are available here.
- 2014.12.12
- The NTCIR-11 Conference and EVIA 2014 ended
successfully. Thank you for your participation, cooperation and interest.
- 2014.12.9
- NTCIR-11 and EVIA 2014 Online
Proceedings are available here.
- 2014.11.14
- NTCIR-11 Conference Online Registration
opened !
- 2014.11.07
- Call for Participation: NTCIR-11 Conference
released. [CFP]
- 2014.10.27
- Call for Task Proposals for
NTCIR-12 (Due: Nov.21, 2014) released. [CFP]
- 2014.10.10
- NTCIR-10 Patent MT Test
collection is available for research purposes.
- 2014.10.09
- NTCIR-11 Copyright form released (Due:
Nov. 01st).
- 2014.10.09
- EVIA 2014 Copyright form released (Due:
Oct. 22nd).
- 2014.09.09
- EVIA 2014 Paper Submission Deadline Extended to Sep. 20.
- 2014.08.27
- NTCIR-11 Paper Submission Instructions
released.
- 2014.07.14
- NTCIR-11 QA Lab (Ja/En subtask) user
agreement form released.
- 2014.06.26
- NTCIR-11 Conference and EVIA2014 is released.
- 2014.06.24
- NTCIR-10 Test collection: RITE is
available for research purposes.
- 2014.06.13
- NTCIR-9 Test collection: RITE is
available for research purposes.
- 2014.04.22
- NTCIR-11 RITE-VAL (JA, EN, CN subtask) user
agreement form released.
- 2014.04.07
- The new Pilot Task: Cooking Recipe Search
has just added.
- 2014.03.25
- New NTCIR Tools for Evaluation Metrics
released.
- 2014.02.17
- NTCIR-11 MedNLP and RITE-VAL (JA subtask)
user agreement form released.
- 2014.01.30
- NTCIR-11 user agreement form (for Math,
MobileClick, SpokenQuery&Doc) released.
- 2014.01.21
- Task Registration is still
possible in the some NTCIR-11 Tasks: Math, RITE-VAL, SpokenQuery&Doc,
QA-Lab, some other tasks.
- 2014.01.14
- NTCIR-11 user agreement form (for IMine,
Temporalia) released.
- 2013.12.20
- NTCIR-11 Task Registration Due
Extended to 20 January, 2014
- 2013.11.26
- NTCIR-11 Call for Additional Pilot
Task Proposal released. (CFP is here.)
- 2013.10.31
- NTCIR-11 Task Registration started
- 2013.10.31
- NTCIR-11 Call for Participation to the NTCIR-11
Tasks released
- 2013.10.18
- NTCIR-10 Test collection: Math is available
for research purposes
- 2013.09.24
- Slides and Video Recordings from the NTCIR-11
Kick-Off available
- 2013.09.19
- NTCIR-10 Test collection: CrossLink is
available for research purposes
- 2013.09.09
- NTCIR-10 Test collection: INTENT, SpokenDoc
are available for research
purposes
- 2013.09.03
- NTCIR-11 Task Evaluation released
- 2013.07.24
- NTCIR-11 website and Call for Participation to the NTCIR-11
Kick-Off Event released
- 2013.06.24
- The NTCIR-10 Conference and EVIA2013 ended
successfully. Thank you for your participation, cooperation and interest.
- 2013.06.18
- NTCIR-10 / EVIA2013 Online
Proceedings released
- 2013.04.05
- NTCIR-10 Conference Registration Open!
- 2013.03.26
- EVIA2013 Paper Submission Deadline Extended to April
5th(Closed)
- 2013.03.21
- Call for Task Proposals for NTCIR-11 (due May 10,
2013) released
- 2013.02.22
- Survey for NTCIR web site
- 2013.02.14
- NTCIR-10 Submission Instructions released
- 2013.01.15
- ACM-TALIP Special Issue on NTCIR-9 RITE have
been issued(December 2012)
- 2013.01.15
- Tetsuya Sakai and INTENT Task Organizers
received a Best Paper Award of the 8th Asian Information Retrieval Societies
Conference(AIRS 2012)
- 2012.12.07
- NTCIR-10 MedNLP Task user agreement form
released
- 2012.11.06
- NTCIR-10 The registration for the MedNLP Task has
started
- 2012.10.19
- Qrel(topics and Relevance judgements, questions and answers)are
downloadable from NII/IDR
- 2012.09.06
- WEB Test
collections are available from NII/IDR
- 2012.08.24
- NTCIR-9 Test collections(PatentMT)are available for
research purposes
- 2012.07.24
- EVIA 2013 Preliminary CFP released
- 2012.06.28
- NTCIR-10 Task Registration Due Extended to 31
August.
- 2012.06.05
- NTCIR-10 Call for
Participation to the NTCIR-10 Task(in PDF)Released
- 2012.05.30
- NTCIR-9 Test collection (SpokenDoc) is available for
research purposes
- 2012.05.25
- NTCIR-10 Task Registration Started(CFP is here)
- 2012.05.22
- NTCIR-9 Test collections(Crosslink,
INTENT and 1CLICK)are available for research purposes
- 2012.05.09
- Submission deadline for IRJ Search Intents and Diversification was extended to 21 May
- 2012.05.06
- Submission deadline for ACM-TALIP
Special Issue on NTCIR-9 RITE was extended to 11 May
- 2012.03.22
- Three Special Issues related to NTCIR:
-Natural Language Processing for Information Access and its
Evaluation, Journal of the Association for Natural Language Processing, Japan-
Submission Due: 27 April
(English Submission is welcome)
-ACM-TALIP Special Issue on NTCIR-9 RITE-
Submission Dues: Title & Abstract: 23 April, Fulltext: 7 May(Extended to
11 May)(Sorry, it is for the task participants only)
-IRJ Search Intents and
Diversification(related to NTCIR's Intent)- Submission Due: 14
May(Extended to 21 May)
- 2012.03.15
- Video Recordings and Slides from the NTCIR-10
Kick-Off available
- 2012.02.28
- Call for Participation to the NTCIR-10 Kick-Off
Event released
- 2011.12.15
- Photo Albums and Session Notes of NTCIR-9
Workshop/EVIA 2011meeting are available here
- 2012.12.12
- The NTCIR-9 Workshop Meeting ended successfully.
Thank you for your participation, cooperation and interest.
- 2011.12.06
- NTCIR-9 Workshop/EVIA 2011
Online Proceedings released
- December 11-15, 2023
- NTCIR-17 Conference
- September 28, 2022
- NTCIR-17 Kick-Off Event
- June 14-17, 2022
- NTCIR-16 Conference
- March 29, 2021
- NTCIR-16 Kick-Off Event
- December 08-11, 2020
- NTCIR-15 Conference
- September 30, 2019
- NTCIR-15 Kick-Off Event
- June 10-13, 2019
- NTCIR-14 Conference &
EVIA 2019
- March 20, 2018
- NTCIR-14 Kick-Off Event
- Feburary 20, 2018
- NTCIR-14 QALab-PoliInfo Kick-Off Event
- December 5-8, 2017
- NTCIR-13 Conference &
EVIA 2017
- August 24, 2016
- NTCIR-13 Kick-Off Event
- 2016.06.07-06.10
- NTCIR-12 Conference &
EVIA 2016
- 2015.02.27
- NTCIR-12 Kick-Off Event
- 2014.12.09-12.12
- NTCIR-11 Conference & EVIA 2014
- 2013.09.02
- NTCIR-11 Kick-Off Event
- 2013.06.18-06.21
- NTCIR-10 Conference & EVIA 2013
- 2012.03.08
- NTCIR-10 Kick-Off Event
- 2011.12.06-12.09
- NTCIR-9 & EVIA 2011 Final Meeting
- 2011.03-07
- NTCIR-9 Formal Run
- 2011.01-05
- NTCIR-9 Dry Run