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2024.08.08
Mark Sanderson is elected to the SIGIR Academy ! He is an NTCIR Steering Committee member and ex-General co-chair.
Yiqun Liu is elected to the SIGIR Academy as well. He is an NTCIR Steering Committee member and General co-chair.
Yiqun Liu, Qingyao Ai, Jiaxin Mao, Weihang Su and Jia Chen are awarded SIGIR 2024 best paper award .
・Title: Scaling Laws For Dense Retrieval
・Authors: Yan Fang (Tsinghua University), Jingtao Zhan (Tsinghua University), Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University), Jiaxin Mao (Renmin University of China), Weihang Su (Tsinghua University), Jia Chen (Xiaohongshu Inc), Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University)
Qingyao is a Program co-chair of NTCIR-18. Jiaxin, Weihang and Jia are Task orgnaizers of NTCIR-17.
2024.05.01
NTCIR-18 Task Registration Started [Flyer ]
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
[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.
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.
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.
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!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.
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 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
March 29, 2024
NTCIR-18 Kick-Off Event
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
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