NTCIR is a sesquiannual series of conferences that evaluate various
information access tasks. The tenth conference, NTCIR-10, is
currently running six main tasks (CrossLink, INTENT, 1CLICK, PatentMT,
RITE, SpokenDoc) and one pilot task (MATH), which were selected by the
NTCIR Programme Committee.
<http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-10/pc.html>

Over 100 research institutions have registered to participate in one
or more of the tasks. The NTCIR-10 conference will be held June 18-21
at NII, Tokyo, Japan.

While the regular tasks run on an 18-month cycle, this year we are experimenting with an additional call for a limited number of additional pilot tasks for NTCIR-10, to provide an opportunity to responsively explore emerging topics. NTCIR is not able to provide financial support to these additional pilot tasks, but can help to attract participants, provide suggestions for the task design and help organise the final presentations at the NTCIR-10 conference. We expect the organisers and the participants of accepted pilot tasks to contribute papers to the NTCIR-10 online proceedings, although it is possible that their papers may not be included in the NTCIR-10 CD-ROM/USB that will be distribute at the conference due to the tight schedule. It is hoped that the accepted pilot tasks will leverage their experience at NTCIR-10 to design and propose a full regular task for NTCIR-11.


< IMPORTANT DATES (Time zone: Japan)>

October 11, 2012	Proposals due
November 9, 2012	Decision notification
June 18-20, 2013	NTCIR-10 conference

< Reference >

Please also refer to the generic schedule for the existing NTCIR-10 tasks:
<http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-10/dates.html>

HOW TO PROPOSE AN ADDITIONAL PILOT TASK:

Please send a proposal document to ntc-admin
by October 11(Japan time).
The task proposal format and the selection criteria
(those used for selecting the existing NTCIR-10 tasks) can be found in
[Call_for_NTCIR-10_TaskProposals.pdf]

<QUESTIONS?>

Contact the NTCIR Program Chairs:

Hideo Joho： hideo
Tetsuya Sakai： tetsuyasakai