NTCIR-18 Presentation Awards

We are grateful to announce that the following teams received the presentation / poster presentation awards at the NTCIR-18 conference.
Congratulations!

Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the oral presentations that are excellent in novelty, reproducibility, validity, presentation quality, and quality of Q&A.
The award winner is determined based on recommendation by the task organizers.

Best Poster Presentation Awards are given to the excellent poster presentations.
The award winner is determined based on a vote of all participants.

NTCIR-18 Best Oral Presentation Award Recipients

Task  Recipients
AEOLLM UCLWI at the NTCIR-18 AEOLLM Task: A Low-Cost Comparison of RAGs
Xiao Fu, Navdeep Singh Bedi, Noriko Kando, Fabio Crestani and Aldo Lipani
FairWeb-2 AMS42 at the NTCIR-18 FairWeb-2 Task
Clara Rus, Jasmin Kareem, Chen Xu, Yuanna Liu, Zhirui Deng and Maria Heuss
FinArg-2 IMNTPU at the NTCIR-18 FinArg-2: Fine-Tuning and Prompt-Based Learning for Temporal Argument Detection and Claim Validity Assessment
Bor-Jen Chen, Wen-Hsin Hsiao, Jun-Yu Wu, Cheng-Yun Wu and Min-Yuh Day
Lifelog-6 DCU MemoriEase at the NTCIR-18 Lifelog 6 Task
Quang-Linh Tran, Binh Nguyen, Gareth Jones and Cathal Gurrin
MedNLP-CHAT IMNTPU at NTCIR-18 MedNLP-CHAT Task: Evaluating Agentic AI for Multilingual Risk Assessment in Medical Chatbots
Jun-Yu Wu, Cheng-Yun Wu, Bor-Jen Chen, Wen-Hsin Hsiao and Min-Yuh Day
RadNLP TMUNLPG3 at the NTCIR-18 RadNLP Task
Wen-Chao Yeh, Yan-Chun Hsing, Tzu-Yi Li, Nitisalapa Timsatid, Shih-Chuan Chang, Shih-Hsin Hsiao, Chu-Chun Wang, Pak-Yue Chan, Wen-Lian Hsu and Yung-Chun Chang
HIDDEN-RAD RAD-PHI3 at the NTCIR-18 HIDDEN-RAD: Hidden Causality Inclusion in Radiology Reports with Multimodal Small Language Models
Mercy Ranjit, Rahul Kumar, Shaury Srivastav, Anirban Porya, Tanuja Ganu
SUSHI KASYS at the NTCIR-18 SUSHI Task
Haruki Fujimaki and Makoto P. Kato
U4 STMK24 NTCIR18 U4 Table QA Submission
Hayato Aida, Kosuke Takahashi and Takahiro Omi

NTCIR-18 Best Poster Presentation Award Recipients

Task  Recipients
AEOLLM PanguIR Technical Report for NTCIR-18 AEOLLM Task
Lang Mei, Chong Chen and Jiaxin Mao
FairWeb-2 AMS42 at the NTCIR-18 FairWeb-2 Task
Clara Rus, Jasmin Kareem, Chen Xu, Yuanna Liu, Zhirui Deng and Maria Heuss
FinArg-2 IMNTPU at the NTCIR-18 FinArg-2: Fine-Tuning and Prompt-Based Learning for Temporal Argument Detection and Claim Validity Assessment
Bor-Jen Chen, Wen-Hsin Hsiao, Jun-Yu Wu, Cheng-Yun Wu and Min-Yuh Day
Lifelog-6 DCU MemoriEase at the NTCIR-18 Lifelog 6 Task
Quang-Linh Tran, Binh Nguyen, Gareth Jones and Cathal Gurrin
MedNLP-CHAT TMUNLPG2 at the NTCIR-18 MedNLP-CHAT Task
Pei-Ying Yang, Tzu-Cheng Peng, Wen-Chao Yeh, Chien Chin Chen and Yung-Chun Chang
RadNLP NURad at the NTCIR-18 RadNLP Task
Marina Higashi, Rintaro Ito, Keita Kato, Ryota Asai, Shingo Iwano and Shinji Naganawa
Transfer-2 YMX2L at the NTCIR-18 Transfer-2 Task
Riku Mizuguchi, Takeshi Yamazaki and Shuhei Yamamoto
HIDDEN-RAD Teddysum at the NTCIR-18 HIDDEN-RAD Task: Using RAG and Tree-of-Thought for Causal Explanation Generation
Youngseob Won, Younggyun Hahm, Chanhyuk Yoon and Seong Tae Kim
SUSHI KASYS at the NTCIR-18 SUSHI Task
Haruki Fujimaki and Makoto P. Kato
U4 AIREV at the NTCIR-18 U4 Task
Xin Fan, Kazuya Uesato, Yuma Hayashi and Tsuyoshi Morioka
Congratulations!


NTCIR-18 Award Chair:
Hiroaki Ohshima(University of Hyogo, Japan)
NTCIR-18 Program Co-Chairs:
Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University, China)
Chung-Chi Chen (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)
Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan)
NTCIR-18 General Co-Chairs:
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Charles L.A. Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)

Last Modified: 2025-06-18