DAY-2 (Wednesday, May 16): NTCIR-6 Meeting

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8:00  
 
8:30 - 17:00
NTCIR Registration Open
9:00
9:00 - 9:30
Light Refreshment (breakfast)
9:30 - 9:45 Opening
Welcome
9:45 - 10:45 Overview
Overview of the 6th NTCIR Workshop, Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics)
10:00
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee
11:00
11:15 - 13:15 Session 1: QAC
Chair: Tatsunori Mori (Yokohama National University)

An Overview of the 4th Question Answering Challenge (QAC-4) at NTCIR Workshop 6, Junichi Fukumoto (Ritsumeikan University), Tsuneaki Kato (University of Tokyo), Fumito Masui (Mie University) and Tsunenori Mori (Yokohama National University)

Question Answering System for Non-factoid Type Questions and Automatic Evaluation based on BE Method, Junichi Fukumoto (Ritsumeikan University)

NTT's Question Answering System for NTCIR-6 QAC-4, Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Hideki Isozaki (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)

JAVELIN III: Monolingual and Cross-lingual Question Answering, Hideki Shima and Teruko Mitamura(Carnegie Mellon University)

A Monolithic Approach and a Type-by-Type Approach for Non-Factoid Question-answering --- Yokohama National University at NTCIR-6 QAC ---, Tatsunori Mori, Mitsuru Sato, Madoka Ishioroshi, Yugo Nishikawa, Shigenori Nakano and Kei Kimura (Yokohama National University)

12:00
13:00
13:15 - 14:15
14:00
14:15 - 17:30 Session 2: CLIR
CLIR Part I Chair: Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University)
Overview of CLIR Task at the Sixth NTCIR Workshop, Kazuaki Kishida† (Keio University), Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University), Sukhoon Lee (Chungnam National University), Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri College), Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics) and Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)

Using Unigram and Bigram Language Models for Monolingual and Cross-Language IR, Lixin Shi† and Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal)

IASL System for NTCIR-6 Korean-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval, Yu-Chun Wang, Cheng-Wei Lee, Richar Tzong-Han Tsai and Wen-Lian Hsu (Academia Sinica)

Improving translation accuracy in web-based translation extraction, Chengye Lu, Yue Xu and Shlomo Geva (Queensland University of Technology)

Short Break
CLIR Part II Chair: Sukhoon Lee (Chungnam National University)
Toshiba BRIDJE at NTCIR-6 CLIR: The Head/Lead Method and Graded Relevance Feedback, Tetsuya Sakai† (NewsWatch, Inc.), Makoto Koyama, Tatsuya Izuha, Akira Kumano, Toshihiko Manabe and Tomoharu Kokubu (Toshiba)

POSTECH at NTCIR-6: Combining Evidences of Multiple Term Extractions for Mono-lingual and Cross-lingual Retrieval in Korean and Japanese, Seung-Hoon Na† and Jong-Hyeok Lee (POSTECH)

NTCIR-6 CLIR-J-J Experiments at Yahoo! Japan, Sumio Fujita† (Yahoo Japan Corporation)

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17:30 - 20:00
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