Workshop Meeting Program

DAY-0

Tuesday, March 6, 2001

14:00-18:00 Registration (NII 13F)
14:00-16:00 Task Chair Meeting (NII 13F Rm 1310)
16:00-18:00 Task Planning Meeting (NII 15F Rm 1509)
Multilingual Corpora & Asian Language CLIR at NTCIR 2001/2002

DAY-1

Wednesday, March 7, 2001
Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, NCS 2F

9:00-9:30 Registration
9:30-9:40 Welcome Jun Adachi, NII
9:40-11:10 Overview of the NTCIR Workshop 2
NTCIR WS2 general *1 Noriko Kando
Text Summarization Task *2 Takahiro Fukusima
Chinese IR Task *2 Kuang-hua Chen & Hsin-Hsi Chen
Japanese & English IR Task *2 Noriko Kando
11:10-11:30 Break
11:30-12:15 Keynote
"On Laboratory Testing of Text Retrieval Systems"
 Stephan E. Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:50 Invited Tak I
"The Importance of Focused Evaluations: a Case Study of TREC and DUC"
 Donna Harman, NIST, US
13:50-15:20 Panel I [Coordinator: Douglas W. Oard]
"Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access ; EvaluationMethods & Metrics, Resources, & International Collaboration"
  • HANTEC *3 (Sung H Myaeng, Nat Chungnam Univ, Korea)
  • CLEF *4 (Martin Braschler, EuroSpider, Switzerland)
  • Fredric C Gey (Univ. California at Berkeley, US)
  • Douglas W. Oard (Univ. Maryland, US)
  • Du Lin (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China)
  • Atsushi Fujii (Univ. of Library and Information Sciences, Japan)
15:20-15:40 Break
15:40-16:15 Invited Talk II
"Evaluation as Enabling Tool for Research and Development"
 Daniel Marcu, ISI/USC, US
16:15-17:30 Panel II [Coordinator: Noriko Kando]
"Way Ahead of IR & Summuraization Research"
  • Daniel Marcu, ISI/USC, US (abstract)
  • Donna Harman, NIST, US
  • MunKew Leong, BIGonthenet, Singapore
  • Takahiro Fukusima, Otemon Gakuin Univ, Japan (NTCIR-SUMM)
  • Junichi Fukumoto, Ritsumeikan Univ, Japan (NTCIR-Q&A)
17:30-18:00 Wrap up

*Digital Poster can be set up

DAY-2

Thursday, March 8, 2001
Mid-conference Hall, NCS 2F

9:15-12:00 Chinese IR task session [Chair: Hsin-Hsi Chen, Kuang-hua Chen]
"NTCIR-2 ECIR Experiments at Maryland: Comparing Structured Queries and Balanced Translation" Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang (University of Maryland)
"Description of the Trans-EZ English-Chinese Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval System" Guo-Wei Bian and Chi-Ching Lin (Trans-EZ Information Tech. Inc.)
Coffee Break
"NTCIR-2 Chinese, Cross Language Retrieval Experiments Using PIRCS" K. L. Kwok (Queens College, City Univ. of New York)
"CRL at NTCIR2" Masaki Murata, Masao Utiyama, Qing Ma, Hiromi Ozaku, Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory, in Japan)
"Hybrid Term Indexing an Evaluation" R.W.P. Luk, K.F. Wong and K.L. Kwok (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
"Berkeley at NTCIR-2: Chinese, Japanese, and English IR experiments" Aitao Chen, Hailing Jiang, and Fredric C. Gey (Univ. of California at Berkeley)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:45 Japanese & English IR session [Chair: Noriko Kando]
"Flexible Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for NTCIR-2" Tetsuya Sakai (University of Cambridge / Toshiba Corporate R&D Center), Stephen E. Robertson, Stephen Walker (Microsoft Research Ltd)
"Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval based on LSI with Multiple Word Spaces" Tatsunori Mori, Tomoharu Kokubu and Takashi Tanaka (Yokohama National University)
"Notes on the Limits of CLIR Effectiveness: NTCIR-2 Evaluation Experiments at Justsystem" Sumio Fujita (JUSTSYSTEM Corporation)
"Regression Model and Query Expansion for NTCIR-2 Ad Hoc Retrieval Task" Kazuaki Kishida (Surugadai University)
"The Effect of Document Clustering in Interactive Relevance Feedback" Makoto Iwayama, Yoshiki Niwa, Shingo Nishioka (Central Research Lab., Hitachi, Ltd.), Akihiko Takano (National Institute of Informatics), Toru Hisamitsu, Osamu Imaichi, Hirofumi Sakurai, Masakazu Fujio (Central Research Lab., Hitachi, Ltd.)
"R2D2 at NTCIR 2 Ad-hoc Task: Relevance-based Superimposition Model for IR" Teruhito KANAZAWA, Atsuhiro TAKASU, Jun ADACHI (University of Tokyo)
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:40 Short presentation [Chair: Masaharu Yoshioka]
2 min for each presentation
anyone who will do digital poster can do short presentation in which the authors can boost their main achievements and their uniqueness, then invite the audience to their digital posters.
16:40-18:30 Digital Poster Session
A list of digital poster presentations
18:30-20:30 Banquet (Dining Room, NCS 3F)

DAY-3

Friday, March 9, 2001
Mid-conference Hall, NCS 2F

9:15-12:00 Text Summarization Session [Chair: Manabu Okumura, Takahiro Fukusima]
"Term Weighting Method based on Information Gain Ratio for Summarizing Documents retrieved by IR systems" Tatsunori Mori, Miwa Kikuchi and Kazufumi Yoshida (Yokohama National University)
"Sentence Extraction System Assembling Multiple Evidence" Chikashi NOBATA (Communications Research Laboratory), Satoshi SEKINE (New York University), Masaki MURATA, Kiyotaka UCHIMOTO, Masao UTIYAMA, Hitoshi ISAHARA (Communications Research Laboratory)
"Hybrid Text Summarization Method based on the TF Method and the Lead Method" Kai ISHIKAWA, Shinichi ANDO, Akitoshi OKUMURA (C&C Media Research, NEC Corporation)
Coffee Break
"Yet another summarization system with two modules using empirical knowledge" Kiyonori OTAKE,Daigo OKAMOTO,Mitsuru KODAMA, Shigeru MASUYAMA (Toyohashi University of Technology)
"How small distinction among summaries can the evaluation method identify?" Yoshio Nakao (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)
"Text Summarization based on Hanning window and dependency structure analysis" Tsutomu HIRAO, Mamiko HATAYAMA (NTT Communication Science Laboratories) Satoshi YAMADA, Kazuhiro TAKEUCHI (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Proposal for new tasks [Chair: Noriko Kando]
  • Q&A [Tsuneaki Kato, Tokyo Univ]
  • Text Summarization [Takahiro Fukusima, Otemon Gakuin Univ]
  • CLIR of Asian Languages [Hsin-Hsi Chen, Nat Taiwan Univ]
  • Web [Jun Adachi, Keizo Oyama, Noriko Kando, NII]
  • other
13:30-15:00 Round Table Discussion (concurrent)
13:30-15:00 Q&A and Text Summarization [Chair: J Fukumoto, T Kato, T Fukusima, M Okumura]
13:30-14:10 CLIR [Chair: HH Chen, KH Chen]
14:20-15:00 Web [Chair: J Adachi, K Oyama, N Kando]
15:00-16:00 Wrap-up (Plenary) [Noriko Kando]
  • Plan of NTCIR Workshop 2001/2002
    Schedule, tasks, evaluation methods (each task chair)
  • Resourse Exchange or Information
  • Related project CFP
  • Thanks for everyone
  • etc.
16:00 Conference End
16:30-18:30 Program Committee Meeting (NII 15F Rm 1509)

* DAY-1: Open forum. Anyone interested in IR & TS are welcome.
* DAY-2&3: restricted to the active participants (task participants)

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