The 16th NTCIR (2021 - 2022)
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
January 2021 - June 2022
Conference: June 14-17, 2022 (Virtual event)
Jun 14, 2022: NTCIR-16 Online Proceedings are available here.
May 19, 2022: NTCIR-16 Conference Registration opened.
May 13, 2022: NTCIR-16 Conference Program at a glance released
Jan 31, 2022: Task participation was closed for all tasks. Thank you for your registration.
Sep 30, 2021: NTCIR-16 Conference webpage released.
May 10, 2021: NTCIR-16 Task Registration started. (latest deadline updated on Jan 11, 2022)
Registration due of each task:
DataSearch-2 : Dec 20, 2021 (CLOSED)
DialEval-2 : Dec 1, 2021 (CLOSED)
FinNum-3 : Jan 3, 2022 (CLOSED)
Lifelog-4 : Jan 3, 2022 Feb 1, 2022
QA Lab-PoliInfo-3 : Dec 1, 2021 (CLOSED)
WWW-4 : Nov 1, 2021 (CLOSED)
RCIR : Jan 3, 2022
Real-MedNLP : Dec 1, 2021 (CLOSED)
SS : Aug 25, 2021 (CLOSED)
ULTRE : Aug 1, 2021 (CLOSED)
Mar 30, 2021: Slides for the NTCIR-16 Kick-Off Event released.
Mar 15, 2021: Call for participation to the NTCIR-16 Kick-Off Event released. [CFP]
Jan 18, 2021: The NTCIR-16 Program Committee has selected the following ten Tasks.
Six CORE Tasks: FinNum-3, DialEval-2, WWW-4, QA Lab- PoliInfo-3, Data Search 3, Lifelog-4
Four PILOT Tasks: SS, Real-MedNLP, ULTRE, RCIR
Dec 21, 2020: NTCIR-16 Additional Call for Task Proposals released. (Due: Jan 15, 2021 Closed)
Oct 15, 2020: NTCIR-16 Call for Task Proposals released. (Closed)
CORE TASKS
Data Search 2 (Data Search 2)
Dialogue Evaluation 2 (DialEval-2)
Investor's and Manager's Fine-grained Claim Detection (FinNum-3)
Lifelog Access and Retrieval (Lifelog-4)
QA Lab for Politics Information-3 (QA Lab-PoliInfo-3)
We Want Web 4 with CENTER (WWW-4)
PILOT TASKS
Reading Comprehension for Information Retrieval (RCIR)
Real document-based Medical Natural Language Processing (Real-MedNLP)
Session Search (SS)
Unbiased Learning to Ranking Evaluation Task (ULTRE)
For more details, please see:
NTCIR-16 Task Overview
How to Participate to NTCIR-16 Task(s)
Task slides for Kick-Off Event
Event with * may vary across tasks.
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We are looking forward to your participation !
NTCIR-16 Program Co-Chairs:
Takehiro Yamamoto (Co-chair, University of Hyogo, Japan)
Zhicheng Dou (Co-chair, Renmin University of China)
NTCIR-16 General Chairs:
Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
Last Modified: 2022-06-14