Task Organizers

Advanced Cross-lingual Information Access (ACLIA)
Teruko Mitamura		Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Hideki Shima		Carnegie Mellon University, USA
	Complex Cross-lingual Question Answering (CCLQA) subtask
	Cheng-Wei Lee	Academic Sinica, Taiwan (Traditional Chinese)
	Chin-Yew Lin	Microsoft Research Asia, China (Simplified Chinese)
	Chuan-Jie Lin	National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan (Traditional Chinese)
	Tatsunori Mori	Yokohama National University, Japan (Japanese)
	Ruihua Song	Microsoft Research Asia, China (Simplified Chinese)
	Kohichi Takeda	IBM, Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan (Japanese)
	IR for QA (IR4QA) subtask
	Chuan-Jie Lin	National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan (Traditional Chinese)
	Tetsuya Sakai	Microsoft Research Asia, China
	Noriko Kando	National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Advisor
Kuang-hua Chen		National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Eric Nyberg		Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Geotemporal Informtaion Retreival (GeoTime)
Fredric Gey	University of California, Berkeley,USA
Ray R. Larson	University of California, Berkeley,USA
Noriko Kando	National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Multi-Lingual Opinion Analysis Task (MOAT)
Yohei Seki	University of Tsukuba,Japan (Japanese)
Le Sun	Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Simplified Chinese)
Lun-Wei Ku	National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Traditional Chinese)
David Kirk Evans	Amazon Japan, Japan (English) *He worked for NTCIR-8 MOAT until September, 2009.
Hsin-Hsi Chen	National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Traditional Chinese)
Noriko Kando	National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Patent Mining (PAT-MN)
Hidetsugu Nanba	Hiroshima City University, Japan
Taiichi Hashimoto	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Atsushi Fujii	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Makoto Iwayama	Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hitachi Ltd., Japan

Patent Translation (PATMT)
Atsushi Fujii	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Mikio Yamamoto	University of Tsukuba,Japan
Takehito Utsuro	University of Tsukuba,Japan
Masao Utiyama	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology ,Japan
Terumasa Ehara	Yamanashi Eiwa College, Japan
Hiroshi Echizen-ya	Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan
Sayori Shimohata	Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Japan

Pilot Task
	Community QA Task
	Daisuke Ishikawa	National Institute of Informatics, Japan
	Noriko Kando	National Institute of Informatics, Japan
	Tetsuya Sakai	Microsoft Research Asia, China
	Advisor
	Kazuko Kuriyama	Shirayuri College, Japan
	Yohei Seki	Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

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