Program and Organizing Committee

• Jun Adachi* (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)  Organizing Chair
• Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Koji Eguchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Atsushi Fujii (University of Library and Information Science, Japan)  Publicity/Web Co-chair
• Junichi Fukumoto (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)  Digital Poster Co-Chair
• Takahiro Fukusima (Otemon Gakuin University, Japan)
• Emi Ishida (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)  Local Arrangement Chair
• Makoto Iwayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hitachi, Ltd. Central Laboratory, Japan)
• Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)  Program Chair
• Tsuneaki Kato (University of Tokyo, Japan)  Digital Poster Co-Chair
• Kazuaki Kishida (Surugadai University / National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri College, Japan)
• Suk-Hoon Lee (Chungnam National University, Korea)
• Fumito Masui (Mie University, Japan)  Digital Poster Co-Chair
• Sung Hyon Myaeng (Chungnam National University, Korea)
• Hidetsugu Nanba (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)  Publicity / Web Co-chair
• Keizo Oyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)  Publication Chair
• Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Akihiko Takano (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Task Organizers

Cross Lingal Information Retrieval Task (CLIR)

• Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Koji Eguchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Emi Ishida (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Kazuaki Kishida (Surugadai University / National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri College, Japan)
• Suk-Hoon Lee (Chungnam National University, Korea)
• Sung Hyon Myaeng (Chungnam National University, Korea)

Patent Retrieval Task (PATENT)

• Atsushi Fujii (University of Library and Information Science, Japan)
• Makoto Iwayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hitachi, Ltd. Central Laboratory, Japan)
• Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Akihiko Takano (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Question Answering Challenge (QAC1)

• Junichi Fukumoto (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
• Tsuneaki Kato (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Fumito Masui (Mie University, Japan)

Text Summarization Challenge (TSC2)

• Takahiro Fukusima (Otemon Gakuin University, Japan)
• Hidetsugu Nanba (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Manabu Okumura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

Web Retrieval Task (WEB)

• Koji Eguchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)  Co-chair
• Emi Ishida (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri College, Japan)
• Keizo Oyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)  Co-chair

Secretariat

• Ai Kuba (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Urara Numata (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
• Naoko Tsuchiya (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)