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Also see the NTCIR General Announcement Email archive and the General NTCIR Home Page for the current What's New list.

2011-11-14 NTCIR-9 Meeting Second CFP and Program available
2011-10-12 NTCIR-9 Meeting CFP and Online Registration available
2011-09-20 NTCIR-9 RITE Entrance Exam Subtask User agreement released
2011-09-16 EVIA 2011 Submission Due Extended to 2011-10-01
2011-07-06 EVIA 2011 Preliminary CFP released
2011-04-11 Operation of NTCIR Data delivery system and servers in April
2011-03-25 Operation of NTCIR Data delivery system and servers
2011-02-14 NTCIR Test Collection: FY2010 Research Activity Report submission due is 2011-03-31
2011-01-20 NTCIR-9 Task Registration Due (extended)
2011-01-05 NTCIR-9 Document Set Release
2011-01-06 NTCIR-8 CQA Test collection is available for research purposes 
2010-12-10 NTCIR-8 Test collections are available for research purposes 
2010-12-10 NTCIR-9 Task Registration Due extended to Jan 20, 2011
2010-11-01 NTCIR-9 Task Registration Started (CFP is here)
2010-10-05 Video Recording and Slides from the NTCIR-9 Kick-Off available
2010-10-05 NTCIR-9 Kickoff event (NII, Tokyo, Japan)
2010-09-21 Call for Participation to the NTCIR-9 Kick-Off Event released
2010-09-17 NTCIR-9 Brief Task Description Released
2010-09-02 NTCIR-9 Website (preliminary) open
2010-07-27 Please take a few minutes to complete NTCIR-8 Evaluation form
2010-07-27 Photo Albums and Session Notes of NTCIR-8 Workshop/EVIA meeting are available here
2010-07-16 NTCIR-9 Task Proposals Due
2010-07-03 Call for NTCIR-9 Task Proposals released
2010-06-18 NTCIR-8 Workshop/EVIA2010 Meeting ended successfully. Thank you for your participation, cooperation and interest. [Proceedings, Slides, Posters]
2010-06-15~18 NTCIR-8 Workshop/EVIA2010 Meeting (NII, Tokyo, Japan)
2010-06-15 NTCIR-8 Workshop/EVIA2010 Online Proceedings release
2010-05-27 NTCIR-8 Meeting Early Registration Due extended to June 4
2010-05-15 Camera-ready Paper for the Proceedings Due
2010-05-14 NTCIR-8 Meeting Visa Support Application Due
2010-05-10 EVIA 2010 Final Manuscripts Due
2010-05-10 EVIA 2010 Copyright form Submission Due
2010-05-05 NTCIR-8 Meeting Copyright form Submission Due
2010-05-02 CQA: Paper for the Proceedings (draft) Due
2010-04-30 NTCIR-8 Meeting Early Registration Due extended to May 15
2010-04-30 NTCIR-8 Meeting Travel Support Notification
2010-04-30 NTCIR-8 Meeting Digital Poster Request form Submission Due
2010-04-20 EVIA 2010 Notification of Paper Acceptance
2010-04-15 NTCIR-8 Meeting Travel Support Application Due
2010-04-15 ACLIA: Paper for the Proceedings (draft) Due
2010-04-15 GeoTime: Paper for the Proceedings (draft) Due
2010-04-15 MOAT: Paper for the Proceedings (draft) Due
2010-04-10 PATMN: Paper for the Proceedings (draft) Due
2010-04-08 PATMT: Paper for the Proceedings (draft) Due
2010-04-08 MOAT: Task Overview Partial Release
2010-04-06 CQA: Submission Deadline
2010-04-02 EVIA 2010 Paper Submissions Due (GMT-12)
2010-04-02 GeoTime: Evaluation Results Release
2010-04-02 NTCIR-8 Meeting Travel Support Information is available now
2010-04-01 Paper for the Proceedings (draft) Due
2010-03-30 CQA: Topic Release
2010-03-30 EVIA 2010 Paper Submission Due extended to April 2
2010-03-30 NTCIR-8 Meeting Copyright form Submission due extended
2010-03-26 NTCIR-8 Meeting Online Registration open
(Early registration Deadline: 2010-04-30)

2010-03-26 NTCIR-8 Meeting submission upload page is ready
2010-03-24 ACLIA: Task Overview Partial release
2010-03-21 EVIA 2010 submission upload page is ready
2010-03-10 ACLIA: CCLQA/Monolingual QA Evaluation Results Release
2010-03-09 PATMN: Technical Trend Map Creation subtask-Formal Run Evaluation Release
2010-03-03 ACLIA: IR4QA Evaluation Results Release
2010-03-01 Task Overview Partial Release
2010-03-01 PATMN: Technical Trend Map Creation subtask-Formal Run Correct Data Set Release (manually annotated data)
2010-02-28 PATMN: Technical Trend Map Creation subtask-Formal Run Submission Deadline
2010-02-26 PATMT: Translation subtask-Evaluation Results Release (Human Judgment)/ Evaluation subtask and Retrieval subtask-Evaluation Results Release
2010-02-19 PATMN: Classification subtask-Formal Run Evaluation Release
2010-02-05 ACLIA: Submit CCLQA results using IR4QA results
2010-02-03 NTCIR-8 Workshop Meeting Invited Speakers announced
2010-02-02 GeoTime: Submission Deadline (5pm Tokyo, Japan Time; February 1, 2010: midnight, California time; February 2, 2010: 9am Central European Time)
2010-02-01 PATMT: Evaluation subtask and Retrieval subtask-Submission Deadline
2010-01-30 PATMN: Technical Trend Map Creation subtask-Formal Run Topic Release
2010-01-29 ACLIA: Release IR4QA results to CCLQA groups
2010-01-27 ACLIA: Submit CCLQA and Monolingual QA results (J-J, CS-CS, CT-CT, E-J, E-CS, E-CT)
2010-01-22 PATMN: Classification subtask-Formal Run Submission deadline
2010-01-21 MOAT: Submit Formal Run Cross-lingual Results
2010-01-20 ACLIA: Submit IR4QA results
2010-01-19 GeoTime: Topic Release
2010-01-19 NTCIR-8 GeoTime Schedule updated
2010-01-17 MOAT: Submit Formal Run Mono-lingual Results
2010-01-15 PATMT:Translation subtask-Evaluation Results Release
2010-01-14 ACLIA: Release Answer type analysis to IR4QA group from CCLQA group
2010-01-13 ACLIA: Submit Answer type analysis
2010-01-07 MOAT: Formal Run Data Release (shared in mono/cross-lingual tasks)
2010-01-06 ACLIA: Release TOPICS to CCLQA, IR4QA
2009-12-22 PATMN: Classification subtask-Formal Run Topic release/ Technical Trend Map Creation subtask-Dry Run Evaluation Release
2009-12-15 PATMT: Translation subtask-Submission Deadline/ Retrieval subtask-MT results by participants of Translation subtask Release
2009-12-15 PATMN: Technical Trend Map Creation subtask-Dry Run Submission deadline
2009-12-07 EVIA 2010 Preliminary CFP released
2009-12-01 PATMT: Translation subtask and Retrieval subtask -Topic Release
2009-11-22 PATMN: Classification subtask-Dry Run Evaluation Release
2009-11-16 PATMN: Classification subtask-Dry Run Submission deadline
2009-11-16 NTCIR-8 Schedule for each task updated
[ACLIA] [MOAT] [PATMN] [PATMT]
2009-11-15 PATMN: Technical Trend Map Creation subtask-Dry Run Topic Release
2009-10-30 MOAT: Sample Release (one topic)
2009-10-15/31 PATMN: Technical Trend Map Creation subtask-Data release
2009-10-16 PATMN: Classification subtask-Dry Run Topic Release
2009-10-01 PATMN: Technical Trend Map Creation subtask-Data release (research papers)
2009-09-15 It was decided to hold the NTCIR-8 MOAT English subtask
2009-09-01 PATMT: Translation subtask-Release of the system training data/ Evaluation subtask-Topic Release
2009-08-04 NTCIR-8 MOAT English subtask is now under reconsideration. We are searching the organizer for the subtask. (This subtask might be cancelled if appropriate person will not be found. For more information, it will be announced later)
2009-08-03 Seminar on 'Geographic Information Retrieval' by Professor Ray R. Larson
2009-07-31 NTCIR-8 Registration is still open (Registration Deadline has been extended to the Topic Release of each task)
2009-07-31 NTCIR-7 MOAT Test Collection is now available for research purpose
2009-07-21 CFP for Seminar by Professor Ray R. Larson Released
2009-07-17 NTCIR-8 Community QA Pilot Task preliminary CFP Released and Registration Started
2009-07-17 NTCIR-8 User Agreement Forms page updated with ACLIA, GeoTime and MOAT data from the LDC
2009-07-15 Minutes of NTCIR-8 MOATand PATMN Round Table Meeting are available
2009-07-01 NTCIR-8 Documents Release
2009-06-26 NTCIR-7 ACLIA 'Qrels Ver.2' and the related paper have been released
2009-06-25 NTCIR-8 Registration Deadline has been extended to 07-31
2009-06-24 NTCIR-8 Patent Mining Task Round Table Meeting (NII, Tokyo)
2009-06-22 NTCIR-8 MOAT Round Table Meeting (NII, Tokyo)
2009-06-22 Only English and Japanese documents will be used in NTCIR-8 GeoTime
(We do not use simplified and traditional Chinese documents)
2009-06-15 The proposed amendment to the Japanese Copyright Law was passed by the House of Councillors (Date of enforcement: 2010-01-01)
2009-06-11 Proposals for NTCIR-8 Pilot Task(s) are welcome. If you will volunteer for organizing the Pilot Task(s), please contact us at ntc-admin
2009-06-03 The second version of Yahoo! Japan's "Yahoo! Chiebukuro" (Japanese
version of Yahoo! Answers) will be released for research purpose from NII.
2009-05-15 NTCIR-8 Workshop CFP Released
(Online registration and User agreement forms are here!)
2009-04-27 NTCIR-7 Test collections are available for research purpose
2009-01-06 Session Notes of the NTCIR-7 Meeting are posted on the NTCIR-7 Blog
2008-12-25 Slides and posters presented at the NTCIR-7 Meeting are available with Online Proceedings
2008-12-16~19 NTCIR-7・EVIA2008 Meeting
2008-12-16 NTCIR-7・EVIA2008 Online Proceedings released
2008-12-06 Online Registration for NTCIR-7 Meeting is closed
2008-12-01 Online Registration for NTCIR-7 Meeting will be closed on December 6th.
2008-11-17 VISA support application deadline
2008-11-15 Camera-ready Paper for the Proceedings Due-Firm Deadline
2008-11-15 10-31 Digital Poster request form submission
2008-10-31 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Return the Comments from organizers to revise the papers (CCLQA, Monolingual QA)
2008-10-31 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Return the Comments from organizers to revise the papers
2008-10-27 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Paper for the Proceedings Due (E, CS)
2008-10-24 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Return the Comments from organizers to revise the papers (IR4QA)
2008-10-24 Travel support notification
2008-10-22 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Paper for the Proceedings Due (CCLQA, Monolingual QA)
2008-10-20 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Paper for the Proceedings Due (J, CT)
2008-10-18 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Evaluation Results Return (E)
2008-10-13 EVIA 2008 Notification of Acceptance
2008-10-10 Travel support application deadline (closed)
2008-10-08 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Paper for the Proceedings Due (IR4QA)
2008-10-07 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Task Overview Partial Release
2008-10-01 Paper for the Proceedings Due
2008-09-29 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Evaluation Results Return (CT, manual evaluation)
2008-09-26 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Formal Run Results Submission (E)
2008-09-26 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Evaluation Results Return (CT, automatical evaluation)
2008-09-24 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Evaluation Results Return (J)
2008-09-20 NTCIR-7 Meeting Online Registration Open
2008-09-15 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Formal Run Results Submission (CS)
2008-09-14 EVIA 2008 Paper Submission
2008-09-12 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Evalulation Results Return (CCLQA, Monolingual QA)
2008-09-11 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Formal Run Data Release (E)
2008-09-10 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Formal Run Results Submission (J, CT) (Extended)
2008-09-08 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Formal Run Data Release (CS)
2008-09-03 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Evaluation Results Return (IR4QA)
by 2008-09-01 Evaluation Results Return
2008-09-01 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Formal Run Data Release (J, CT)
2008-09-01 Task Overview Partial Release (Except MOAT)
2008-08-29 The NTCIR-7 Meeting Site is Open
2008-08-29 NTCIR-7 Patent Translation: Release of evaluation results (analysis including manual evaluation etc.)
2008-08-28/29 Tutorial on Statistical Machine Translation (Tsukuba, Japan)
2008-08-08 Submission Archive and NTCIR-6 PATENT Test collection are available for research purpose
2008-08-08 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Submit CCLQA results using IR4QA results
2008-08-01 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Sample Release (1 - 4 topics)
2008-08 Dr. Atsushi Fujii received the IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award for his paper using NTCIR data
2008-07-31 NTCIR-7 Patent Mining: Analysis of evaluation results(Round Table Meeting)
2008-07-21 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Release IR4QA results to CCLQA groups(Both with and without the use of Answer type analysis)
2008-07-14 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Submit Monolingual QA results (J-J, CS-CS, CT-CT)
2008-07-14 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Submit IR4QA results (Both with or without the Use of Answer type analysis from CCLQA)
2008-07-11 NTCIR-7 Patent Translation: Release of evaluation results (automatic evaluation)
2008-07-07 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Submit CCLQA End-to-end results (E-J, E-CS, E-CT)
2008-07-07 NTCIR-7 MOAT: Schedule for Formal Run updated
2008-06-30 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Release Answer type analysis to IR4QA group from CCLQA group
2008-06-23~08-08 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Formal Run
2008-06-23 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Release TOPICS to CCLQA, IR4QA
2008-06-23 NTCIR-7 Patent Mining: Release of evaluation results
2008-06-13 NTCIR-7 Patent Mining: Submission Deadline for Formal Run
2008-05-30 NTCIR-7 Patent Translation: Submission Deadline for Formal Run
2008-05-27 NTCIR-7 ACLIA: Schedule for Formal Run updated
2008-05-14 NTCIR-7 Patent Mining: Topic Release for Formal Run
2008-05-08 NTCIR-7 Patent Mining: Topic Release and Submission Deadline for Formal Run have been postponed for two weeks.
2008-04-30 The expiration of the memorandum for participants in the NTCIR Workshop 6
2008-04-25 NTCIR-7 Patent Translation: Release of the test data for Formal Run
2008-04-10 Updated EVIA Notification of Acceptance and Paper submission deadlines
2008-03-31 NTCIR-7 Patent Mining Task Round Table Meeting (NII, Tokyo, Japan)
2008-03-29 NTCIR-7 MuST Midterm workshop especially for free subtask (Tokyo, Japan)
2008-03-19 NTCIR-7 Patent Translation Task Round Table Meeting (Tokyo, Japan)
2008-03-18 NTCIR-5 and 6 Test collections are available for research purpose
2008-03-15 EVIA 2008 Call For Papers Released
2008-03 Dr. Tetsuya Sakai received the IPSJ Paper Award for his paper on IR evaluation metrics using NTCIR data
2008-01-21/22 the IPSJ SIG NL (Natural Language Processing) / FI (Fundamental Informatics) joint workshop (feat. a Special Session on NTCIR)
2007-12-27 NTCIR-7 Registration due closed
2007-12-05 NTCIR-6 Online Proceedings now contain .bib files
2007-11-15 NTCIR-7 Registration Deadline has been extended to 12-27
2007-11-09 NTCIR-7 Workshop Introduction Meeting
2007-10-01 NTCIR-7 Registration started
2007-10 Dr. Atsushi Fujii received the Internet Conference Paper Award for his paper using NTCIR data
2007-08-29/30 Tutorial on Statistical Machine Translation (Tsukuba, Japan)
2007-05-15/18 -NTCIR-6 Meetingwas OVER. We are grateful for your participation, cooperation, support and interest
2007-05-14 -Evaluation Sheet for NTCIR-6 and NTCIR-6 Meeting [MSword | PDF]
2007-05 - Program for NTCIR-6 Meeting and EVIA is avaialble here
2007-03-20 -NTCIR-6 Meeting Registration open
2007-03-14 -Procedure for Proposing NTCIR-7 Tasks updated.
2007-03-08 -Deadline for paper submission
2007-03-01 -Deadline for task proposal was extended to April 15
2007-01-18 -EVIA 2007 (Pre-Meeting Workshop) Call for Poster Submissions (Due: March 15, 2007)
2006-12-05 -Procedure for Proposing NTCIR Tasks added.
2006-08-10 ACM-SIGIR 2006 Workshop on New Direction of MLIA
2006-08-04 Round Table Meeting for QAC
2006-07-23 Panel on Evaluation at COLING-ACL 2006
2006-07-23 Workshop on Task-Based Summarization and QA (Noriko Kando)
2006-07-19 CFP for Opinion Analysis Pilot Task (OPINION) Start!
         Registration for CLQA is still open. CFP for MuST will come later 
2006-07-15 Dry Run starts. PATENT Classification Subtask
2006-07-03 Dru Run starts. PATENT Retrieval Subtask
2006-07-01 CLIR Topic Release (Formal Run for Stage 1)
2006-06-01-NTCIR-6 Registration Period is extended until June 23, 2006
2006-05-31-NTCIR-6 Registration Due
2006-05-25 NTCIR-6 Patent Round-Table Meeting at LREC
2006-05-25 -LREC 2006 Key Note "Evaluation of IA with Asian Languagest at NTCIR" by Noriko Kando, Presentation on NTCIR-5 Patent Retrieval Task by Atsuhi Fujii et al.
2006-05-24 -2nd CFP for NTCIR-6 [How to Participate] Register NOW!
2006-05-23 -EVIA 2007 (Pre-Meeting Workshop) Call for Papers (Due: January 5, 2007)
2006-05-23 -User Agreement Forms for NTCIR-6 were updated
2006-05-18 -NTCIR DATA Home was updated
2006-05-17 -QAC Rount Table Meeting at NII
2006-04-17  NTCIR-6 Call for Participation Starts
2006-04-06  NTCIR-6 Patent Retrieval Task Round-table Meeting.
2006-03-15  NTCIR ntcir Mailing List Archive
2006-03-23 NTCIR-6 CFP will start mid-April 2006
2006-03-23 Search for NTCIR Project Office Staff, Project Researchers
2006-03-18/19 NTCIR-5 MuST Workshop
2006-03-15 Archive of NTCIR mailing list is available
2006-03-10 Special Session on NTCIR at IPSJ Annual Meeting.
2006-02-22 NTCIR-6 Round-table Meeting at large
2005-12-06 Proceedings of NTCIR-5 Workshop Meeting are available.
2005-12-05 The Program of NTCIR-5 Meeting is revised and added some meetings like Opinion Workshop + Invited talk.
2005-11-10 NTCIR-5 Meeting for Workshop online Registration will close at midnight, November 30, Japan time
2005-08-25 Submission raw data archive for research  purpose
2005-08-09 The 5th NTCIR Workshop page available
2005-05-18 NTCIR-4PATENT test collecrion is available for research purpose use
2005-05-18 NTCIR-4 WEB document data is available for research purpose use
2005-03-28 Deadline of registration for NTCIR-5 task
2005-03-15 NTCIR-4 PATENT is available for research purpose use
2005-01-19 Mailing lists for NTCIR-5 was added
2004-12-20 Online Registraion for Tasks is available
2004-12-07 NTCIR-5 user Agreement form(CLQA task)is available.
2004-12-06 NTCIR-5 user Agreement form(QAC task) is available.
2004-11-24 CFP for QAC
2004-11-16 NTCIR-5 user Agreement form(CLIR task) is available.
2004-09-30 NTCIR-5 user Agreement form( PATENT task & WEB task) is available.
2004-06-02--2004-06-04 The 4th NTCIR workshop Meeting
2004-04-30 Acceptance notice of open submission paper
2004-04-26 Notification of approval of Travel support
2004-04-20 The 4th NTCIR workshop Meeting: Online Registration Open!
2004-04-16 PATENT Round table meeting (NII)
2004-04-15 (Japan Time) Application dead line of Travel Support
2004-04-15 Submission of Extended abstracts of the open submission paper
2004-04-01 Call for papers for Open submission paper
2004-04-01 Announcement for travel support
2004-03-31 Submission of Camera-ready manuscript for Working Notes
2004-03-15 NTCIR4 Meeting page partially available
2004-02-24 TSC, QAC Round table meeting (NII)
2004-02-20 Evaluation results release

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Also see the NTCIR General Announcement Email archive and the General NTCIR Home Page for the current What's New list.