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DAY-0 December 11 Monday

16:30 - 18:00 Pre-NTCIR Seminar @ NII Room 1902+1903 (19th Floor)

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16:30
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18:00		 07:30
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09:00		 02:30
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04:00		 Pre-NTCIR Seminar (In-Person)
Speaker: Mark Sanderson (RMIT University, Australia)

16:30 - 18:00
Title:Three decades of web search, how goes the retrieval revolution?
Mark Sanderson (RMIT University, Australia)

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DAY-1 December 12 Tuesday: NTCIR-17 Conference & EVIA2023

10:45 - 11:45 NTCIR-17 Conference Tutorial @ Room 4+3+2

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10:45
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11:45		 01:45
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02:45		 20:45
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21:30		 Tutorial (In-Person)
Speaker: Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University)

10:45 - 11:30
Title: A Practical Guide to Computing Evaluation Measures and Comparing Systems: Twelve Small Tips
Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University)


13:00 - 18:00 EVIA 2023, A Satellite Workshop of the NTCIR-17 Conference @ Room 4+3+2

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18:00		 04:00
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09:00		 23:00
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04:00		 EVIA 2023
The 10th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2023)

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DAY-2 December 13 Wednesday: NTCIR-17 Conference

10:00 - 11:45 Opening & Overview, Keynote 1 @ Hall

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10:00
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10:45		 01:00
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01:45		 20:00
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20:45		 Welcome & Overview of NTCIR
Session Chair: Yiquin Liu(Tsinghua University)


10:00 - 10:15
Welcome & Overview of the NTCIR (In-Person)
Noriko Kando, Charles Clarke, Makoto P. Kato and Yiqun Liu

10:15 - 10:45
Overview of the NTCIR-17 (In-Person)
Zhicheng Dou and Takehiro Yamamoto
10:45
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11:45		 01:45
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02:45		 20:45
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21:45		 Keynote 1 (In-Person)
Speaker: Paul Thomas (Microsoft)
Title: Using Language Models for Relevance Labelling
Paul Thomas (Microsoft)
Session Chair: Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University)

12:15 - 16:00 Task Overview Presentations @ Hall

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12:15
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13:00		 03:15
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04:00		 22:15
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23:00		 Task Overview: QA Lab-PoliInfo-4, SS-2, FairWeb-1
Session Chair: Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba)

12:15 - 12:30
QA Lab-PoliInfo-4 (In-Person)
Yasuhiro Ogawa, Yasutomo Kimura, Hideyuki Shibuki, Hokuto Ototake, Yuzu Uchida, Keiichi Takamaru, Kazuma Kadowaki, Tomoyoshi Akiba, Minoru Sasaki, Akio Kobayashi, Masaharu Yoshioka, Tatsunori Mori, Kenji Araki and Teruko Mitamura

12:30 - 12:45
Session Search (SS) -2 (In-Person)
Haitao Li, Jia Chen, Jiannan Wang, Weihang Su, Qingyao Ai, Xinyan Han, Beining Wang and Yiqun Liu

12:45 - 13:00
FairWeb-1 (In-Person)
Sijie Tao, Nuo Chen, Tetsuya Sakai, Zhumin Chu, Hiromi Arai, Ian Soboroff, Nicola Ferro and Maria Maistro
13:00
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14:00		 04:00
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05:00		 23:00
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00:00		 Lunch @ Room 4+3+2
14:00
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14:45		 05:00
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05:45		 00:00
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00:45		 Task Overview: FinArg-1, UFO, ULTRE-2
Session Chair: Zhicheng Dou (Renmin University of China)

14:00 - 14:15
FinArg-1 (In-Person)
Chung-Chi Chen, Chin-Yi Lin, Chr-Jr Chiu, Hen-Hsen Huang, Alaa Alhamzeh, Yu-Lieh Huang, Hiroya Takamura and Hsin-Hsi Chen

14:15 - 14:30
UFO (In-Person)
Yasutomo Kimura, Hokuto Ototake, Kazuma Kadowaki, Takahito Kondo and Makoto P. Kato

14:30 - 14:45
ULTRE-2 (In-Person)
Zechun Niu, Jiaxin Mao, Qingyao Ai, Lixin Zou, Shuaiqiang Wang and Dawei Yin
14:45
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15:15		 05:45
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06:15		 00:45
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01:15 		Break
15:15
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16:00		 06:15
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07:00		 01:15
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02:00		 Task Overview: MedNLP-SC, Lifelog-5, Transfer
Session Chair: Doug W. Oard (University of Maryland)

15:15 - 15:30
MedNLP-SC (In-Person)
Shoko Wakamiya, Lis Kanashiro Pereira, Lisa Raithel, Hui-Syuan Yeh, Peitao Han, Seiji Shimizu, Tomohiro Nishiyama, Gabriel Herman Bernardim Andrade, Noriki Nishida, Hiroki Teranishi, Narumi Tokunaga, Philippe Thomas, Roland Roller, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Yuji Matsumoto, Akiko Aizawa, Sebastian Möller, Cyril Grouin, Thomas Lavergne, Aurélie Névéol, Patrick Paroubek, Shuntaro Yada, Shouhei Hanaoka, Yuta Nakamura, and Eiji Aramaki

15:30 - 15:45
Lifelog-5 (In-Person)
Liting Zhou, Cathal Gurrin, Graham Healy, Ly Duyen Tran, Naushad Alam, Hideo Joho, Longyue Wang, Tianbo Ji, ChenYang Lyu and Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen

15:45 - 16:00
Transfer (Online)
Hideo Joho, Atsushi Keyaki and Yuki Oba

16:00 - 17:00 Panel @ Hall

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17:00		 07:00
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08:00		 02:00
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03:00		 Panel Session (In-Person)
Responsible Information Access: Fairness, Harmlessness, Sustainability, and More
Panelists: Haruka Maeda (Kyoto University), Paul Thomas (Microsoft), and Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)
Moderator: Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University)

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DAY-3 December 14 Thursday: NTCIR-17 Conference

09:00 - 10:00 Task Session 1: FairWeb-1 @ Room 2
Session Chair: Sijie Tao (Waseda University)

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09:00
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09:07		 00:00
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00:07		 19:00
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19:07		 Overview of the NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1 Task (In-Person)
Sijie Tao, Nuo Chen, Tetsuya Sakai, Zhumin Chu, Hiromi Arai, Ian Soboroff, Nicola Ferro and Maria Maistro
09:07
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09:20		 00:07
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00:20		 19:07
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19:20		 THUIR at the NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1 Task: An Initial Exploration of the Relationship Between Relevance and Fairness (In-Person)
Sijie Tao, Nuo Chen, Tetsuya Sakai, Zhumin Chu, Hiromi Arai, Ian Soboroff, Nicola Ferro and Maria Maistro
09:20
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09:33		 00:20
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00:33		 19:20
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19:33		 RSLFW at the NTCIR-17 FairWeb 1 Task (In-Person)
Fan Li, Shi Kaize, Kenta Inaba, Sijie Tao, Nuo Chen and Tetsuya Sakai
09:33
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09:46		 00:33
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00:46		 19:33
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19:46		 UDInfoLab at the NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1 Task (Online)
Fumian Chen and Hui Fang
09:46
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09:59		 00:46
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00:59		 19:46
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19:59		 RMIT_IR at the NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1 Task (Online)
Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal, Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Johanne R. Trippas, Falk Scholer and Damiano Spina

09:00 - 10:00 Task Session 2: Transfer @ Room 1
Session Chair: Atsushi Keyaki (Hitotsubashi University)

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09:00
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09:05		 00:00
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00:05		 19:00
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19:05		 Overview of NTCIR-17 Transfer Task (In-Person)
Hideo Joho, Atsushi Keyaki, Yuki Oba
09:05
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09:15		 00:05
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00:15		 19:05
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19:15		 ditlab at the NTCIR-17 Transfer Task (In-Person)
Yuuki Tachioka
09:15
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09:25		 00:15
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00:25		 19:15
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19:25		 KANDUH at the NTCIR-17 Transfer Task (In-Person)
Tomoya Hashiguchi, Ryota Mibayashi, Huu-Long Pham, Wakana Kuwata, Yuka Kawada, Yuya Tsuda, Takehiro Yamamoto and Hiroaki Ohshima
09:25
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09:35		 00:25
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00:35		 19:25
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19:35		 KASYS at the NTCIR-17 Transfer Task (In-Person)
Kenya Abe, Kota Usuha and Makoto P. Kato
09:35
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10:00		 00:35
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01:00		 19:35
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20:00		 Discussion

10:30 - 11:30 Task Session 3: UFO @ Room 2
Session Chair: Yasutomo Kimura (Otaru University of Commerce)

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10:30
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10:50		 01:30
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01:50		 20:30
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20:50		 FA Team at the NTCIR-17 UFO Task (In-Person)
Yuki Okumura and Masato Fujitake
10:50
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11:10		 01:50
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02:10		 20:50
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21:10		 KSU at the NTCIR-17 UFO Task (In-Person)
Tomokazu Hayashi and Hisashi Miyamori
11:10
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11:30		 02:10
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02:30		 21:10
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21:30		 JPXIteam at the NTCIR-17 UFO Task (In-Person)
Nobushige Doi and Mayuri Tanaka

10:30 - 11:30 Task Session 4: SS-2 @ Room 1
Session Chair: Haitao Li (Tsinghua University)

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10:30
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11:00		 01:30
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02:00		 20:30
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21:00		 Overview of the NTCIR-17 Session Search (SS-2) Task (In-Person)
Haitao Li, Jia Chen, Jiannan Wang, Weihang Su, Qingyao Ai, Xinyan Han, Beining Wang, Yiqun Liu
11:00
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11:30		 02:00
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02:30		 21:00
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21:30		 THUIR_SS at the NTCIR-17 Session Search (SS) Task (In-Person)
Xinyan Han, Yiteng Tu, Haitao Li, Qingyao Ai, Yiqun Liu

11:30 - 12:30 Round table, breakout session @ Room 2

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11:30
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12:30		 02:30
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03:30		 20:30
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21:30		 Transfer

11:30 - 12:30 Task Session 5: ULTRE-2 @ Room 1
Session Chair: Zechun Niu (Renmin University of China)

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11:30
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11:45		 02:30
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02:45		 21:30
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21:45		 Overview of the NTCIR-17 ULTRE-2 Task (In-Person)
Zechun Niu, Jiaxin Mao, Qingyao Ai, Lixin Zou, Shuaiqiang Wang, Dawei Yin
11:45
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12:00		 02:45
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03:00		 21:45
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22:00		 CIR at the NTCIR-17 ULTRE-2 Task
Lulu Yu, Keping Bi, Jiafeng Guo, Xueqi Cheng
12:00
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12:15		 03:00
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03:15		 22:00
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22:15		 Discussion
12:15
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12:30		 03:15
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03:30		 22:15
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22:30		 Wrapup

12:30 - 14:00 Poster & Lunch (FairWeb-1, FinArg-1, Transfer, UFO, SS-2, ULTRE-2) @ Room 3+4

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12:30
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14:00		 03:30
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05:00		 22:30
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00:00		 Poster & Lunch (FairWeb-1, FinArg-1, Transfer, UFO, SS-2, ULTRE-2)

14:00 - 15:00 Round table, breakout session @ Room 2

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14:00
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15:00		 05:00
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06:00		 00:00
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01:00		 Lifelog-5

14:30 - 16:00 Task Session 6: FinArg-1 @ Room 1
Session Chair: Chung-Chi Chen (AIST)

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14:30
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14:40		 05:30
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05:40		 00:30
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00:40		 Opening
Chung-Chi Chen
14:40
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14:50		 05:40
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05:50		 00:40
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00:50		 TMUNLP at the NTCIR-17 FinArg-1 Task (In-Person)
Hen-You Lin, Eugene Sy, Tzu-Cheng Peng, Shih-Hsuan Huang and Yung-Chun Chang
14:50
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15:00		 05:50
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06:00		 00:50
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01:00		 TUA1 at NTCIR-17 FinArg-1 Task (In-Person)
Daichi Yamane, Fei Ding and Xin Kang
15:00
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15:10		 06:00
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06:10		 01:00
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01:10		 Quack at the NTCIR-17 FinArg-1 Task : Boosting and MLM Enhanced Financial Knowledge Sequence Classification (In-Person)
Zih An Lin, Hsiao Min Li, Adam Lin, Yun Ching Kao, Chia Shen Hsu and Yao Chung Fan
15:10
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15:50		 06:10
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06:50		 01:10
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01:50		 Invited Talk: Argumentation in Financial Language: The Case of Earnings Conference Calls
Alaa Alhamzeh
15:50
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16:00		 06:50
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07:00		 01:50
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02:00		 Closing
Chung-Chi Chen

16:00 - 17:30 Task Session 7: MedNLP-SC @ Room 2
Session Chair: Lisa Raithel (DFKI Berlin and TU Berlin, Germany and Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN) and Yuta Nakamura (The University of Tokyo)

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16:00
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16:15		 07:00
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07:15		 02:00
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02:15		 NTCIR-17 MedNLP-SC Social Media Adverse Drug Event Detection: Subtask Overview (In-Person)
Shoko Wakamiya, Lis Kanashiro Pereira, Lisa Raithel, Katherine Yeh, Peitao Han, Seiji Shimizu, Tomohiro Nishiyama, Gabriel Herman Bernardim Andrade, Noriki Nishida, Hiroki Teranishi, Narumi Tokunaga, Philippe Thomas, Roland Roller, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Yuji Matsumoto, Akiko Aizawa, Sebastian Möller, Cyril Grouin, Thomas Lavergne, Aurélie Névéol, Patrick Paroubek, Shuntaro Yada and Eiji Aramaki
16:15
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16:30		 07:15
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07:30		 02:15
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02:30		 SRCB at the NTCIR-17 MedNLP-SC Task (In-Person)
Hongyu Li, Yongwei Zhang, Yuming Zhang, Shanshan Jiang and Bin Dong
16:30
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16:45		 07:30
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07:45		 02:30
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02:45		 HPIDHC at NTCIR-17 MedNLP-SC: Data Augmentation and Ensemble Learning for Multilingual Adverse Drug Event Detection (In-Person)
Smilla Fox, Martin Preiß, Florian Borchert, Aadil Rasheed and Matthieu-P. Schapranow
16:45
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17:00		 07:45
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08:00		 02:45
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03:00		 VLP Methods at the MedNLP-SC Social Media Adverse Drug Event Detection of NTCIR-17 (Online)
The-Quyen Ngo, Duy-Dao Do and Phuong Le-Hong
17:00
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17:15		 08:00
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08:15		 03:00
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03:15		 NTCIR-17 MedNLP-SC Radiology Report Subtask Overview: Dataset and Solutions for Automated Lung Cancer Staging (In-Person)
Yuta Nakamura, Shouhei Hanaoka, Shuntaro Yada, Shoko Wakamiya and Eiji Aramaki
17:15
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17:30		 08:15
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08:30		 03:15
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03:30		 Zero-shot classification of TNM staging for Japanese radiology report Using ChatGPT at RR-TNM subtask of NTCIR-17 MedNLP-SC (In-Person)
Mizuho Nishio, Hidetoshi Matsuo, Takaaki Matsunaga, Koji Fujimoto, Morteza Rohanian, Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Fabio Rinaldi and Michael Krauthammer

16:30 - 17:30 Task Session 8: Lifelog-5 @ Room 1
Session Chair: Liting Zhou(Dublin City University)

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16:30
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16:40		 07:30
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07:40		 02:30
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02:40		 Overview of the NTCIR-17 Lifelog-5 Task (In-Person)
Liting Zhou, Cathal Gurrin, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Graham Healy, and Chenyang Lyu, Tianbo Ji, Longyue Wang, Hideo Joho and Ly-Duyen Tran, and Naushad Alam
16:40
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16:50		 07:40
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07:50		 02:40
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02:50		 MemoriEase at the NTCIR-17 Lifelog-5 Task (In-Person)
Quang-Linh Tran, Binh Nguyen, Gareth J. F. Jones and Cathal Gurrin
16:50
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17:00		 07:50
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08:00		 02:50
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03:00		 Interactive Sub-Task Focus: LifeInsight's Contribution to NTCIR-17 Lifelog-5 (Online)
Gia Huy Vuong, Van-Son Ho, Tien-Thanh Nguyen-Dang, Xuan-Dang Thai, Thang-Long Nguyen-Ho, Minh-Khoi Pham, Tu-Khiem Le, Van-Tu Ninh and Minh-Triet Tran
17:00
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17:10		 08:00
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08:10		 03:00
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03:10		 Automatic Sub-Task Focus: LifeInsight's Contribution to NTCIR-17 Lifelog-5 (Online)
Thang-Long Nguyen-Ho, Gia Huy Vuong, Van-Son Ho, Tien-Thanh Nguyen-Dang, Xuan-Dang Thai, Minh-Khoi Pham, Tu-Khiem Le, Van-Tu Ninh and Minh-Triet Tran
17:10
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17:20		 08:10
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08:20		 03:10
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03:20		 MEMORIA: A Memory Enhancement and MOment RetrIeval Application at the NTCIR-17 Lifelog-5 Task (Online)
Ricardo Ribeiro, Alexandre Gago, Bernardo Kaluza, Josefa Pandeirada and António Neves
17:20
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17:30		 08:20
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08:30		 03:20
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03:30		 DCU at the NTCIR17 Lifelog-5 Task (In-Person)
Naushad Alam, Yvette Graham and Cathal Gurrin

18:30 - 20:30 Banquet @ Josui kaikan

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20:30		 09:30
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11:30		 04:30
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06:30		 Banquet

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DAY-4 December 15 Friday: NTCIR-17 Conference

09:30 - 10:30 Task Session 9: QA Lab-Polilnfo-4 @ Room 1+2
Session Chair: Yasuhiro Ogawa (Nagoya City University)

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09:30
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09:45		 00:30
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00:45		 19:30
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19:45		 ditlab at the NTCIR-17 QA Lab-PoliInfo-4 Task (In-Person)
Yuuki Tachioka
09:45
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10:00		 00:45
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01:00		 19:45
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20:00		 AKBL at the NTCIR-17 QA Lab-PoliInfo-4 Task (In-Person)
Tasuku Shin, Haruki Ishikawa, Yuki Gato, Eiji Kuramoto and Tomoyoshi Akiba
10:00
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10:15		 01:00
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01:15		 20:00
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20:15		 KIS's Stance Classfication Model at the NTCIR-17 QA Lab-PoliInfo-4 (In-Person)
Akira Nakada and Yoshinobu Kano
10:15
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10:30		 01:15
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01:30		 20:15
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20:30		 fuys Team at the NTCIR-17 QA Lab-PoliInfo-4 Task (In-Person)
Daigo Nishihara, Hokuto Ototake and Kenji Yoshimura

11:00 - 12:00 Keynote 2 @ Room 1+2

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12:00		 02:00
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03:00		 21:00
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22:00		 Keynote 2 (In-Person)
Speaker: Fernando Diaz (CMU, USA)
Title: The Principles of Depth, Breadth, and Precarity in Developing Metrics for Information Retrieval Evaluation
Fernando Diaz (CMU, USA)
Session Chair: Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)

12:00 - 13:30 Poster & Lunch (MedNLP-SC, Lifelog-5, QA Lab-PoliInfo-4) @ Room 3+4

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12:00
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13:30		 03:00
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04:30		 22:00
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23:30		 Poster & Lunch (MedNLP-SC, Lifelog-5, QA Lab-PoliInfo-4)

13:30 - 13:55 Invited Talk @ Room 1+2

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13:55		 04:30
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04:55		 23:30
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23:55		 Invited Talk
TREC by Ian Soboroff, NIST, USA

13:55 - 14:15 NTCIR-18 Tasks @ Room 1+2

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14:15		 04:55
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05:15		 23:55
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00:15		 NTCIR-18 Tasks


14:15 - 15:00 Closing, Awards & Wrapup @ Room 1+2

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15:00		 05:15
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06:00		 00:15
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01:00		 Closing, Awards & Wrapup

15:00 - 15:30 Round table, breakout session @ NII Room 1208 (12th Floor)

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15:30		 06:00
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06:30		 01:00
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01:30		 MedNLP-SC



We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

Last modified: 2023-12-15