We would like to express our sincere gratitude and appreciation
to the following organizations
for their cooperation and help in organizing NTCIR-9.

• Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
• University of Melbourne, Australia

• City University of Hong Kong, China
• Hong Kong Institute of Education, China
• Microsoft Research Asia, China

• Hiroshima City University, Japan
• Hokkaido University, Japan
• IBM Research - Tokyo, Japan
• The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
• Kansai University, Japan
• Keio University, Japan
• Kyoto University, Japan
• National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
• NEC Corporation, Japan
• Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
• Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
• The University of Tokyo, Japan
• University of Tsukuba, Japan
• University of Yamanashi, Japan

• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea 

• University of Otago, New Zealand

• INESC-ID, Portugal

• Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan

• Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Microsoft, USA
• NIST, USA
• University of California, Berkeley, USA