NTCIR-12 Kick-Off Event

NTCIR-12
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies

Call for Participation to the NTCIR-12 Kick-Off Event

February 27th (Friday) 2015, 13:30- (English Session) 15:15- (Japanese Session)
National Institute of Informatics (NII), Room 2001A/2001B 1901/1902 (19th floor), Tokyo, Japan

Call for Participation (Flyer)

Let's participate in a collaborative activity for enhancing Information Access technologies!

Development of Information Access technologies based on techniques of Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing or Database Management becomes increasingly more important for many applications, (e.g., providing effective access from mobile computers to Web resources or analyzing big data). It is indispensable for developing such technologies to experimentally evaluate them by using test collections constructed under collaborations of many researchers. Over the 15 years, NTCIR have been formulating the infrastructure for the evaluation, and contributing to development of the Information Access technologies. A total of 61 "evaluation tasks" have been organized, attracting over 790 participant research groups worldwide so far. Furthermore, over 2,700 research groups have signed up to use the NTCIR test collections in their research. Consequently, NTCIR has been the major forum for researchers to intensively discuss the evaluation methodology of emerging information access technologies.
As some details have been finalized for NTCIR-12, we would like to hold an event to introduce the NTCIR-12 and exciting new evaluation tasks. Are you young researchers in Information Access area, faculty members who have (many) students to supervise, researchers in industry, or simply interested in Informatics? Anyone is welcome for the event! Join us to share the advance of the state of the art Information Access research and development! As some details have been finalized for NTCIR-11, we would like to hold an event to introduce the NTCIR-11 and exciting new evaluation tasks. Are you a young researcher in Information Access area, faculty members who have (many) students to supervise, researchers in industry, or simply interested in Informatics? Anyone is welcome for the event! Join us to share the advance of the state of the art Information Access research and development!

NTCIR-12 Kick-Off Event

NTCIR-12 Kick-Off Event

  • Date/Time: February 27th (Friday) 2015, From 13:30 To 16:45 p.m.
  • Location: National Institute of Informatics, 20th floor, Seminar room: 2001A and 2001B 19th floor, Seminar room (Room 1901 and 1902)
    Access: http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/about/access/
  • Opening: 13:15 p.m
  • Fees: Free (No registration is required)


Kick-Off Event Tentative Program

13:30 - English Session / 15:15 - Japanese Session (Same as English Session.)

 English Session (90min)
  13:30 - 15:00

- Overview of NTCIR
- What’s new in NTCIR-12
- Introduction of NTCIR-12 Tasks
- Why participate?
- How to participate
- Important Dates
- Q & A

Japanese Session (90min)
  15:15 - 16:45

* Same as English Session. *

NTCIR-12 Tasks

CORE TASKS

  • 1. IMine-2: Search Intent and Task Mining
  • 2. MobileClick-2: Mobile Information Access
  • 3. SpokenQuery&Doc-2: Spoken Query and Spoken Document Retrieval
  • 4. Temporalia: Temporal Information Access
  • 5. MedNLPDoc: Medical Natural Language Processing

PILOT TASKS

  • 6. QALab-2: QA Lab for Entrance Exam
  • 7. Lifelog: Personal Lifelog Access& Retrieval Task
  • 8. STC: Short Text Conversation

Contact Us

For further information, please contact NTCIR Project Office at ntc-secretariat@nii.ac.jp

We are looking forward to your participation !

NTCIR-12 Program Co-Chairs:
Makoto P. 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: 2015-02-26