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NTCIR-14

The 14th NTCIR (2018 - 2019)
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
January 2018 - June 2019
Conference: June 10-13, 2019, NII, Tokyo, Japan

What's New

Dec 12, 2019NEW: NTCIR-14 Post Conference Proceedings are published.

Jun 10, 2019: Online Proceedings of NTCIR-14 and EVIA 2019 are available here.
Apr 22, 2019: NTCIR-14 Conference: Program at a glance released.
Apr 22, 2019: NTCIR-14 Conference: VISA support information released.
Feb 5, 2019: NTCIR-14 Online Proceedings Submission Instruction・Post-conference Proceedings Submission Instruction・Poster and Demo Instruction and Oral Presentations Instruction released.

Jan 8, 2019: NTCIR-14 Task participation was closed for all tasks. Thank you for your registration.
Nov 20, 2018: NTCIR-14 Conference webpage and EVIA 2019 webpage released.
Oct 9, 2018: NTCIR-14 Task Registration is still possible in some tasks. (latest deadline updated on Sep 10th, 2018) (CFP is here). [Flyer]
     Lifelog-3 : until Dec 31th, 2018 (CLOSED)
     OpenLiveQ-2 : until Sep 1st, 2018 (CLOSED)
     QALab-PoliInfo : until Nov 19th, 2018 (CLOSED)
     STC-3 : until Sep 9th, 2018 (CLOSED)
     WWW-2 : until Sep 9th, 2018 (CLOSED)
     CENTRE : until Sep 30th, 2018 (CLOSED)
     FinNum : until Dec 31th, 2018 (CLOSED)


NTCIR-14 News

Tasks

CORE TASKS
LifeLog-3   OpenLiveQ-2   QALab-PoliInfo   STC-3  WWW-2

PILOT TASKS
CENTRE FinNum

For more details, please see:
NTCIR-14 Task Overview
How to Participate to NTCIR-14 Task(s)
Task slides for Kick-Off Event

About Proceedings

LNCS After the NTCIR-14 conference, a post-proceedings of rivised selected papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Springer

Kick-Off Event

NTCIR-14 Kick-Off Event was held on March 20th (Tuesday) 2018.

For more details, please see:
Task slides for Kick-Off Event
Call for Participation to the NTCIR-14 Kick-Off Event [Flyer ]

NTCIR-14 QALab-PoliInfo Kick-Off Event was held on Feburary 20th (Tuesday) 2018.

For more details, please see:
NTCIR-14 QALab-PoliInfo Website
For contact to NTCIR-14 QALab-Poliinfo: qalab-admin

Task Proposals

Call for NTCIR-14 Task Proposal
Call for NTCIR-14 Additional Pilot Task Proposals [CFP Flyer ] (Due: May 20, 2018 Closed.)
Call for NTCIR-14 Task Proposal [CFP Flyer ] (Due: Sep 15, 2017 Closed.)

Tentative Schedule

Sep 15, 2017
NTCIR-14 task proposals due
Nov 10, 2017
Acceptance Notification
Dec 5-8, 2017
NTCIR-13 conference, where the accepted tasks can be introduced by the task organizers
Mar 20, 2018
NTCIR-14 kickoff
Jun-Nov, 2018
Task Registration Due*
Jun, 2018
Dataset Release*
Jun-Aug, 2018
Dry Run*
Aug-Dec 2018
Formal Run*
Feb 1, 2019
Evaluation Result Release
Feb 1, 2019
Task overview paper release (draft)
Mar 15, 2019
Submission due of participant papers
May 1, 2019
Camera-ready participant paper due
Jun 10-13, 2019
NTCIR-14 Conference & EVIA 2019 in NII, Tokyo

Event with * may vary across tasks.

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Contact Us

For contact to NTCIR-14, please see: 'Contact Us'
For further information, please contact NTCIR Project Office at: ntc-secretariat@nii.ac.jp

We are looking forward to your participation !


NTCIR-14 Program Co-Chairs:
Makoto P. Kato (Tsukuba University, Japan) and Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)

NTCIR-14 General Co-Chairs:
Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Last Modified: 2019-06-10