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NTCIR-17

The 17th NTCIR (2022 - 2023)
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
July 2022 - December 2023
Conference: December 12-15, 2023 NII, Tokyo, Japan

The NTCIR-17 Conference ended successfully.
Thank you very much for your participation, cooperation, support, and interest.

What's New

December 12, 2023NEW: NTCIR-17 Online Proceedings are available here..

October 16, 2023: NTCIR-17 Conference is approaching soon! For the detailed information, please refer NTCIR-17 Conference Webpage. We are looking forward to welcoming all of you in Tokyo.

July 12, 2023: Task participation was closed for all tasks. Thank you for your registration.

May 26, 2023: SS-2 task registration deadline was extended to July 1st, and MedNLP-SC task registration deadline was extended to June 26th! Please re-visit NTCIR-17 Call for Task Participation.

May 3, 2023: Transfer task registration deadline was extended to July 1st! Please re-visit NTCIR-17 Call for Task Participation.

Feb 20, 2023: The NTCIR-17 Program Committee has accepted the following additional tasks. Lifelog-5、ULTRE-2、SS-2
Registration due of each task:
Lifelog-5 : July 1, 2023 (CLOSED)
ULTRE-2 : July 1, 2023 (CLOSED)
SS-2 : March, 2023 June 1, 2023 July 1, 2023 (CLOSED)

Jan 6, 2023: NTCIR-17 Task Registration started.
Registration due of each task:
FinArg-1 : July 10, 2023 (CLOSED)
QA Lab-PoliInfo-4 : July 1, 2023 (CLOSED)
MedNLP-SC : June 1, 2023 June 26, 2023 (CLOSED)
FairWeb-1 : March 1, 2023 April 15, 2023 (CLOSED)
Transfer : May 1, 2023 July 1, 2023 (CLOSED)
UFO : July 1, 2023 (CLOSED)

Nov 11, 2022: The NTCIR-17 Program Committee has accepted the following pilot task, which has been conditionally accepted.
PILOT Task: UFO


Sep 28, 2022: Kickoff Event has been held.


Sep 15, 2022: Call for participation to the NTCIR-17 Kick-Off Event released.

Sep 15, 2022: The NTCIR-17 Program Committee has selected the following five Tasks. One more proposals are conditionally accepted and still under review. (For more details on each task, we will announce as soon as it is ready.)
Three CORE Tasks: FinArg, MedNLP-SC, QA Lab-PoliInfo-4
Two PILOT Tasks: FariWeb-1, Transfer

May 15, 2022: NTCIR-17 Call for Task Proposals released. (Closed)

Accepted Tasks

CORE TASKS
Fine-grained Argument Understanding in Financial Analysis (FinArg)
Medical Natural Language Processing for Social media and Clinical texts (MedNLP-SC)
QA Lab for Political Information 4 (QA Lab-PoliInfo-4)
Personal Lifelog Organisation & Retrieval ("Lifelog-5")
Session Search (SS-2)

PILOT TASKS
The First Fair Web Task (FairWeb-1)
Resource Transfer Based Dense Retrieval (Transfer)
Understanding of non-Financial Objects in Financial Reports (UFO)
Unbiased Learning to Rank Evaluation Task 2 (ULTRE-2)

For more details on each task, we will announce as soon as it is ready.

For more details, please see:
NTCIR-17 Task Overview
How to Participate to NTCIR-17 Task(s)

Task Proposals

Call for NTCIR-17 Task Proposal
Call for NTCIR-17 Task Proposals [CFP Flyer ] (Closed)

Tentative Schedule

Jul 8, 2022
NTCIR-17 task proposals due
Aug 26, 2022
Acceptance Notification
Sep 2022
NTCIR-17 kickoff
Jan 2023
Dataset Release*
Jan-Jun, 2023
Dry Run*
Mar-Jul, 2023
Formal Run*
Aug 1, 2023
Evaluation result return
Aug 1, 2023
Task overview paper release (draft)
Sep 1, 2023
Submission due of participant papers (draft)
Nov 1, 2023
Camera-ready participant paper due
Dec 12-15, 2023
NTCIR-17 Conference in NII, Tokyo

Event with * may vary across tasks.

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Contact Us

For contact to NTCIR-17, please see: 'Contact Us'
For further information, please contact NTCIR Project Office at: ntc-secretariat@nii.ac.jp

We are looking forward to your participation !


NTCIR-17 Program Co-Chairs:
Takehiro Yamamoto (Co-chair, University of Hyogo, Japan)
Zhicheng Dou (Co-chair, Renmin University of China)


NTCIR-17 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: 2023-12-25