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Submission of the Formal Proceedings of NTCIR Workshop

All active participants who conducted the task(s) set by the NTCIR Workshop 4 meeting must write and submit a paper for the Formal proceedings of the NTCIR Workshop, regardless of attendance of the Workshop meeting. Please enhance your paper based on the discussion at the meeting and the recommendation results of TALIP. Please try to include failure analysis. Please follow the guideline on the web: author guideline in the same manner as the working notes except for the following information.

Submission due:

July 31, 2004

What you submit:

(a) separate sheet (via postal mail and via e-mail in text or word format) using the following form. Please follow the instruction written in the blue character when completing the form.
separate sheet form:
  • Title of Work:
    Note: Please capitalize the 1st letter of each word except for articles (the, an, a...etc.) and prepositions (on, in, of...etc).
    Example: Overview of the Informational Retrieval Task at NTCIR-4 WEB
  • Author(s):
    Note: Please capitalize only the 1st letter of your first and the last names. If there are two authors, please put 'and' between the names. Both first name and the last name in full. (If you have a middle name, preferably in initial only)
    Example: Koji Eguchi and Keizo Oyama
    If there are more than 3 authors, please put commas after names of each author except for the last and the second last author where you place 'and'. Please do not place a comma or a period after the last author's name.
    Example: Koji Eguchi, Keizo Oyama, Akiko Aizawa and Haruko Ishikawa
  • Number of pages:
  • Team name:
  • Task name:
  • Your postal address and E-mail address:

Please name your separate sheet as NTCIR4-SS-'task name'-'family name of the first author and the initial of the first name'.
Example: NTCIR4-SS-CLIR-KishidaK.txt (doc, rtf)

(b) copyright form (via postal mail) using the form we provide for the formal proceedings.
Please newly download and complete the copyright form as the contents of the form differ from that of the working notes.

(c) 3 copies of hard copy version (via postal mail). Further information is available here.
(d) PDF version of manuscripts (via E-mail).
*--* When creating your PDF manuscripts *--*
* Please do not lock your PDF file.
* Please make sure to embed all fonts when creating a PDF file.
* If you are using Tex, please use embeddable fonts.
* If there are figures and images in your manuscripts, please check that they are in high resolution.
* We recommend using Adobe Distiller and when generating your PDF file. When generating the file, please note the following.
--In the Font Job Option Menu, tick 'Embed All Fonts'
--In the Compression Option Menu, all options of compression and re-sampling of images are switched off *To check if all fonts are embedded, you can use Acrobat Reader (For example, click File -> Document Property -> font)

*--* PDF原稿の作成 *--*
*PDF作成の際、必ずフォントを埋めんで(embed)下さい。
*また、texにて作成の方は埋め込み可能なフォントを使用してください。
*図表部分(特に画像を含む部分)が十分に高い解像度で作成されていることをご確認 下さい。
*PDFの作成には、Adobe Distillerの使用をお勧めします。 Adobe Distillerを利用 してPDFを作成する場合には 以下の点にご注意下さい。
-- ジョブオプションのフォントタブの下、フォントを埋め込むチェックボックスに チェックをつける
-- ジョブオプションの画像(又は圧縮)タブの下、画像のリサンプルおよび圧縮を 行わないよう、全てオフにする
*フォントが埋め込まれているかどうかは、Acrobat Readerで確認できます。 [ファ イル]->[文書のプロパティ]->[フォント]などの操作でご確認下さい。
Name of your manuscripts should be `NTCIR4-task name-family name of the first author and the initial of the first name'.pdf
Example: NTCIR4-CLIR-KishidaK.pdf

Where to submit:

NTCIR Project
Research Center for Information Resources
National Institute of Informatics
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8430, JAPAN.
TEL: +81-3-4212-2750
Fax: +81-3-3556-1916
E-mail: ntc-proceedings

〒101-8430 東京都千代田区一ツ橋2-1-2
国立情報学研究所 情報学資源研究センター
NTCIRプロジェクト事務局
TEL: 03-4212-2750
FAX: 03-3556-1916(事務室)
E-mail: ntc-proceedings

Page limit:

8 pages for one task ("task" means CLIR, PATENT, QAC, TSC, or WEB tasks).
Pleas contact Noriko Kando (kando) if you need extra pages.

If you plan to use LaTeX for compiling the manuscript, please get the style file named latex8.sty for that. If you use 'latex8.sty', please adjust the margin settings, the same as the sample tex source file.

Click on the file names below:


Contact: ntc-proceedings