Call for Task Participation

The 12th NTCIR Workshop (2015 - 2016)
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
Conference: June 7-10, 2016, NII, Tokyo, Japan

Call for Participation to the NTCIR-12 Tasks:

Call for Participation [Flyer]
Task Participation

NTCIR is a periodical event held once per one and half years, which aims to promote research on information access technologies by forming a community and test beds incorporated by many research groups for experiments. The twelfth NTCIR, NTCIR-12, now calls for task participation of anyone interested in research on information access technologies and their evaluation, such as retrieval from a large amount of document collections, question answering and natural language processing. We welcome students, young researchers, professors who supervise (many) students, researchers working for a company, and anyone who is interested in informatics.

The registration for NTCIR-12 Task Participation has just started.
Please visit: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-12/howto.html

NTCIR-12 Aims

Evaluation Tasks

NTCIR-12 Program Committee has selected eight tasks including five Core Tasks and three Pilot Tasks and one additional Core Task. For more details, please visit
Task Overview: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-12/tasks.html
Slides for task introduce at the NTCIR-12 Kick-Off Event: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-12/kickoff.html
and the each task's homepage.


CORE TASKS

[IMine] (Search Intent and Task Mining) : http://www.dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/imine2/

  • IMine: Search Intent and Task Mining


[MedNLPDoc] (Medical Natural Language Processing for Clinical Document) : https://sites.google.com/site/mednlpdoc/
 

  • MedNLPDoc: Medical Natural Language Processing for medical DOCuments


[MobileClick] (Mobile Information Access) : http://www.mobileclick.org/

  • MobileClick: Direct and Immediate Information Access for Mobile Users


[SpokenQuery&Doc] (Spoken Query and Spoken Document Retrieval) : http://www.nlp.cs.tut.ac.jp/ntcir12/

  • SpokenQuery&Doc: Spoken Document Retrieval from Spontaneously Spoken Query


[Temporalia] (Temporal Information Access) : http://ntcirtemporalia.github.io/

  • Temporalia: Temporal Information Access


Additional CORE TASKS (add: 10th July, 2015)

[MathIR] Mathematical Information Retrieval: http://ntcir-math.nii.ac.jp/

  • MathIR: Mathematical Information Retrieval


PILOT TASKS

[Lifelog] Lifelog Task: http://ntcir-lifelog.computing.dcu.ie/

  • Lifelog: Personal Lifelog Search


[QALab] (QA Lab for Entrance Exam) : http://research.nii.ac.jp/qalab/

  • QA System for Real World Problem Including University Entrance Exams


[STC] Short Text Conversation Task: http://ntcir12.noahlab.com.hk/stc.htm

  • STC: Given a microblog post, retrieve a coherent and useful response.


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Registration for NTCIR-12 Tasks

Please visit:
'What participants must do' page: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-12/obligations.html
'How To Participate' page: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-12/howto.html

Important Dates

(Event with * may vary across tasks.) For the latest information, please visit the 'Important Dates' page: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-12/dates.html
30 June 2015Task Registration Due
01 July 2015Document Set Release *
July-Dec. 2015Dry Run *
Sep./2015-Feb./2016Formal Run *
01 Feb. 2016Evaluation Results Due
01 Feb. 2016Early draft Task Overview Release
01 Mar. 2016 Participant Paper Submission Due
01 May 2016 All Camera-ready Paper Copy for the Proceedings Due
07-10 Dec. 2016NTCIR-12 Conference & EVIA 2016, NII, Tokyo, Japan

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Reference

List of the past NTCIR Workshop: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/index.html
Proceedings of the past NTCIRs: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/publication1-en.html
Photo Albums for NTCIR-11 Conference: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-11/conference.html

Organization

Contact Us

For inquiries regarding NTCIR-12 and each task, please see: 'Contact Us'


We are looking forward to your participation !

NTCIR-12 Program Co-Chairs:
Makoto Kato (Kyoto University, Japan) and Kazuaki Kishida (Keio University, Japan)

NTCIR-12 General Co-Chairs:
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University, Japan)
Mark Sanderson (RMIT University, Australia)

Last modified: 2015-07-24