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Call for Participation

We are very glad to invite you to attend the fifth NTCIR Workshop Meeting to be held on December 6-9, 2005 at NII, Tokyo, Japan.
Please come and present your experimental results and findings, and join the discussion!

The fifth NTCIR Workshop Meeting is a four days meeting. This year, all sessions are open to public and anyone interested in the research and evaluation of information access technologies like IR, QA and their cross-language application are welcome to come and join the discussion. All the sessions are held in English.

The online registration is available from 1st.October.

1. BACKGROUND

The NTCIR Workshop is a series of evaluation workshops designed to enhance the research in information access technologies such as information retrieval, question answering, summarization and so on by providing infrastructures for large-scale evaluation and a forum for the researchers who are interested in cross-system comparison and exchanging research ideas in informal atmosphere. The main component of the infrastructure is large-scale test collections usable for experiments. More than 100 research groups from 12 deifferent countries and areas registered to one or more tasks at NTCIR-5.

2. TASKS

The fifth NTCIR Workshop (NTCIR-5) selected the following research areas or topics as "tasks" to be experimented and investigated:

• -Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Task

  cross- and mono-lingual IR on Chinese, Korean, Japanese, English

  -Cross-Language Question Answering Task

  QA on Chinese, Chinese - English, and Japanese - English

  -Patent Retrieval Task

  invalidity search (search patents by patent claim) and CLIR; automatic patent map generation as a feasibility study

  -Question Answering Challenge

  series of questions for information gathering and browsing

  -WEB Task

  Informational retrieval, navigational retrieval, geographic, result classification

3. PROGRAM

The overview and the investigation conducted by each of the 84 participating groups from 12 different countries and areas are presented at the Meeting.


All active task participating groups present their own experimental results and findings either at oral or digital poster sessions.
Discussing what and how we shall evaluated and what we learned from the results in an informal atmosphere is one of the attractive experiences we have through the NTCIR Workshop. We do hope you will enjoy the discussion and exchanging the research idea.

Invited Talks:

 

Open Submission Session:

NTCIR-5 Meeting also hosts an Open Submission Session and highly selective papers will be presented . Paper submissions are invited from anybody who is interested in the investigation of the information access technologies and the evaluation methodologies. Submissions from non-NTCIR task participants are welcome.The formal CFP will be released on September 1. Evaluation methodologies and information access to subjective statements such as opinion are two focused topics of the session but not limited to.

Pre-Meeting tutorial :

To be announced.

4. REGISTRATION

All sessions are open for those who registered on-line.
We will open the registration on the 1st. October.

5. ENQUIRY

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You are most welcome!
We are looking forward to seeing you at the NTCIR-5 Meeting !