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Program
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| 17:30 - 18:30 |
08:30 - 19:30 |
04:30 - 05:30 |
SUSHI * This session is open not only to task participants but to all attendees interested in discussing the future of this specific NTCIR-18 task. |
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| 10:15 - 11:15 |
01:15 - 02:15 |
21:15 - 22:15 |
Keynote 1 Title: Measuring the Generative Information Retrieval Universe Speaker: Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam) |
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| 11:15 - 11:45 |
02:15 - 02:45 |
22:15 - 22:45 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:45 - 12:15 |
02:45 - 03:15 |
22:45 - 23:15 |
Task Overview: AEOLLM, RadNLP Session Chair: Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan) 11:45 - 12:00 AEOLLM Yiqun Liu, Qingyao Ai, Junjie Chen (speaker), Zhumin Chu and Haitao Li 12:00 - 12:15 RadNLP Yuta Nakamura, Shouhei Hanaoka, Eiji Aramaki (speaker), Shuntaro Yada (speaker), Jun Kanzawa, Akira Katayama, Tomohiro Kikuchi, Ryo Kurokawa, Wataru Gonoi, Koji Fujimoto, Jonas Kluckert and Michael Krauthammer |
| 12:15 - 13:45 |
03:15 - 04:45 |
23:15 - 00:45 |
Lunch & Posters; AEOLLM, RadNLP @ Room 3+4 Full Poster List |
| 13:45 - 14:45 |
04:45 - 05:45 |
00:45 - 01:45 |
Task Overview: FairWeb-2, Lifelog-6, Transfer-2, SUSHI Session Chair: Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan) 13:45 - 14:00 FairWeb-2 Maria Maistro, Tetsuya Sakai, Sijie Tao (speaker), Junjie Wang, Hanpei Fang, Yuxiang Zhang, Nuo Chen, Haitao Li and Yiteng Tu 14:00 - 14:15 Lifelog-6 Liting Zhou (speaker), Ly Duyen Tran, Alice Dajung Jung, Klaus Schoeffmann, Duc Tien Dang Nguyen, Hideo Joho, Thanh Binh Nguyen, Graham Healy and Cathal Gurrin 14:15 - 14:30 Transfer-2 Hideo Joho, Atsushi Keyaki, Yuuki Tachioka (speaker) and Shuhei Yamamoto 14:30 - 14:45 SUSHI Tokinori Suzuki (speaker), Douglas W. Oard (speaker), Emi Ishita and Yoichi Tomiura |
| 14:45 - 15:15 |
05:45 - 06:15 |
01:45 - 02:15 |
Coffee Break @ Lobby |
| 15:15 - 16:15 |
06:15 - 07:15 |
02:15 - 03:15 |
Task Overview: Hidden-RAD, MedNLP-CHAT, FinArg-2, U4
Session Chair: Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan) 15:15 - 15:30 Hidden-RAD Key-Sun Choi (speaker), Young-Gyun Hahm, Yu-sang Cho, Kyung-Min Chae, Ju-Hyuck Han, So-Yun Lee and Ye-Jee Kang 15:30 - 15:45 MedNLP-CHAT Eiji Aramaki (speaker), Shoko Wakamiya, Shuntaro Yada, Shohei Hisada, Tomohiro Nishiyama, Lisa Raithel, Roland Roller, Philippe Thomas, Nathan Andreas Pohl, Wiebke Duettmann and Pierre Zweigenbaum 15:45 - 16:00 FinArg-2 Chung-Chi Chen (speaker), Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Hiroya Takamura, Yu-Lieh Huang and Alaa Alhamzeh 16:00 - 16:15 U4 Yasutomo Kimura (speaker), Eisaku Sato, Kazuma Kadowaki and Hokuto Ototake |
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| 16:15 - 16:30 |
07:15 - 07:30 |
03:15 - 03:30 |
Sponsor Session (This session will neither be live-streamed nor recorded.) |
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| 16:30 - 17:30 |
07:30 - 08:30 |
03:30 - 04:30 |
Panel Session Moderator: Mark Sanderson (RMIT University) Title: LLMs and offline test collections: a dangerous distraction or a vital new tool? Panelist: Charlie Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada), Mark Sanderson (RMIT University, Australia), Ian Soboroff (NIST, USA) and Rikiya Takehi (Waseda University, Japan) |
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| 18:15 - 19:15 |
09:15 - 10:15 |
05:15 - 06:15 |
Lifelog-6 The round table discussion session serves as an open forum for participants of the NTCIR-Lifelog task to share insights, reflect on system development experiences, discuss evaluation methodologies, and explore future directions for lifelog retrieval research. |
| JST | UTC | EDT | |
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| 09:30 - 09:33 |
00:30 - 00:33 |
20:30 - 20:33 |
Hidden-Rad at NTCIR-18 (In-Person)
Speaker: Key-Sun Choi |
| 09:33 - 09:52 |
00:33 - 00:52 |
20:33 - 19:52 |
Teddysum at the NTCIR-18 HIDDEN-RAD Task: Using RAG and Tree-of-Thought for Causal Explanation Generation
Youngseob Won, Younggyun Hahm, Changhyuk Yoon, Seong Tae Kim |
| 09:52 - 10:11 |
00:52 - 01:11 |
20:52 - 21:11 |
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 |
| 10:11 - 10:30 |
01:11 - 01:30 |
21:11 - 21:30 |
Optimizing Causality-Based Radiology Reporting with Retrieval-Augmented and Structured Reasoning Approaches for the NTCIR-18 HIDDEN-RAD Task
Ju-Min Cho, Ho-Jin Yi, Myung-Kyu Kim, Se-Jin Jeong, Seung-Hoon Na |
| JST | UTC | EDT | |
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| 09:30 - 9:40 |
00:30 - 00:40 |
20:30 - 20:40 |
Overview of the NTCIR-18 Transfer-2 Task (In-Person)
Hideo Joho, Atsushi Keyaki, Yuuki Tachioka and Shuhei Yamamoto (speaker) |
| 09:40 - 09:55 |
00:40 - 00:55 |
19:40 - 19:55 |
ditlab at the NTCIR-18 Transfer-2 Task (In-Person)
Yuuki Tachioka and Yasunori Terao |
| 09:55 - 10:10 |
00:55 - 01:10 |
19:55 - 20:10 |
YMX2L at the NTCIR-18 Transfer-2 Task (In-Person)
Riku Mizuguchi, Takeshi Yamazaki and Shuhei Yamamoto |
| 10:10 - 10:30 |
01:10 - 01:30 |
20:10 - 20:30 |
Transfer-2 at NTCIR-18 and Next (In-Person)
Shuhei Yamamoto |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
01:30 - 02:00 |
21:30 - 22:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 - 11:05 |
02:00 - 02:05 |
22:00 - 22:05 |
U4 at NTCIR-18 (In-Person)
Yasutomo Kimura (speaker) |
| 11:05 - 11:25 |
02:05 - 02:25 |
22:05 - 22:25 |
AIREV at the NTCIR-18 U4 Task (In-Person)
Xin Fan (speaker), Kazuya Uesato, Yuma Hayashi and Tsuyoshi Morioka |
| 11:25 - 11:45 |
02:25 - 02:45 |
22:25 - 22:45 |
Evaluation Results of UTUtLB25 Team in NTCIR-18 U4 Task of Table Question Answering of Securities Reports (In-Person)
Long Si (speaker), Yin Zhang, Xiaotian Wang and Takehito Utsuro |
| 11:45 - 12:05 |
02:45 - 03:05 |
22:45 - 23:05 |
STMK24 NTCIR18 U4 Table QA Submission (In-Person)
Hayato Aida (speaker), Kosuke Takahashi and Takahiro Omi |
| 12:05 - 12:25 |
03:05 - 03:25 |
23:05 - 23:25 |
WhiteME at U4 Shared Task: Hybrid Retrieval with Table-Structured Clues for Economic Table QA (In-Person)
Koji Tanaka, Daiki Shirafuji (speaker) and Tatsuhiko Saito |
| 12:25 - 12:45 |
03:25 - 03:45 |
23:25 - 23:45 |
Discussion and closing (In-Person)
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| 11:00 - 11:20 |
02:00 - 02:20 |
22:00 - 22:20 |
NTCIR-18 MedNLP-CHAT Determining Medical, Ethical and Legal Risks in Patient-Doctor Conversations: Task Overview (In-Person)
Eiji Aramaki (speaker), Shoko Wakamiya, Shuntaro Yada, Shohei Hisada, Tomohiro Nishiyama, Lenard Paulo Tamayo, Jingnan Xiao, Axalia Levenchaud, Pierre Zweigenbaum, Christoph Otto, Jerycho Pasniczek, Philippe Thomas, Nathan Pohl, Wiebke Duettmann, Lisa Raithel and Roland Roller |
| 11:20 - 11:40 |
02:20 - 02:40 |
22:20 - 22:40 |
IMNTPU at NTCIR-18 MedNLP-CHAT Task: Evaluating Agentic AI for Multilingual Risk Assessment in Medical Chatbots (In-Person)
Jun-Yu Wu (speaker), Cheng-Yun Wu, Bor-Jen Chen, Wen-Hsin Hsiao and Min-Yuh Day |
| 11:40 - 12:00 |
02:40 - 03:00 |
22:40 - 23:00 |
NAISTym at the NTCIR-18 MedNLP-CHAT: Classifying Patient-Chatbot Conversations with Objective and Subjective Assessments Using Prompting Techniques (In-Person)
Lenard Paulo V. Tamayo (speaker), Sa'Idah Zahrotul Jannah, Mohamad Alnajjar, Axalia Levenchaud, Shaowen Peng, Shoko Wakamiya and Eiji Aramaki |
| 12:00 - 12:20 |
03:00 - 03:20 |
23:00 - 23:20 |
AITOK at the NTCIR-18 MedNLP-CHAT to Identify Medical, Ethical and Legal Risks in Patient-Doctor Conversation (Remote)
Hiroki Tanioka |
| 12:20 - 12:45 |
03:20 - 03:45 |
23:20 - 23:45 |
lightling talk of posters (In-Person)
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| 12:45 - 14:15 |
03:45 - 05:15 |
23:45 - 01:15 |
Full Poster List |
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| 14:15 - 14:20 |
05:15 - 05:20 |
01:15 - 01:20 |
Welcome Messages (In-person)
Speaker: Chung-Chi Chen |
| 14:20 - 14:30 |
05:20 - 05:30 |
01:20 - 00:30 |
TMUNLPG1 at the NTCIR-18 FinArg-2 Task (In-Person)
Xuan-Yu You (speaker), Di Jie Liew, Wen-Chao Yeh and Yung-Chun Chang |
| 14:30 - 14:40 |
05:30 - 05:40 |
00:30 - 00:40 |
IMNTPU at the NTCIR-18 FinArg-2: Fine-Tuning and Prompt-Based Learning for Temporal Argument Detection and Claim Validity Assessment (In-Person)
Bor-Jen Chen, Wen-Hsin Hsiao (speaker), Jun-Yu Wu, Cheng-Yun Wu and Min-Yuh Day |
| 14:40 - 14:50 |
05:40 - 05:50 |
00:40 - 00:50 |
SCaLAR IT at the NTCIR-18 FinArg-2: Temporal Inference of Financial Arguments (Remote)
Sai Saketh Nandam (speaker), Charan Srinivas Kumar Reddy Dasari and Anand Kumar Madasamy |
| 14:50 - 15:00 |
05:50 - 06:00 |
00:50 - 01:00 |
FTRI at the NTCIR-18 FinArg-2 Task: Identify Temporal Reference in Earnings Conference Calls (Remote)
Adhitia Erfina (speaker) and Phuong Le-Hong |
| 15:00 - 15:20 |
06:00 - 06:20 |
01:00 - 01:20 |
AI Cup sharing & Findings (In-Person)
Speaker: Shih-Hung Wu |
| 15:20 - 15:40 |
06:20 - 06:40 |
01:20 - 01:40 |
Discussion on FinArg-3 (In-Person)
Speaker: Chung-Chi Chen |
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| 14:15 - 14:30 |
05:15 - 05:30 |
01:15 - 01:30 |
Overview of the NTCIR-18 FairWeb-2 Task (recap) (In-person)
Sijie Tao (speaker), Tetsuya Sakai, Junjie Wang, Hanpei Fang, Yuxiang Zhang, Haitao Li, Yiteng Tu, Nuo Chen and Maria Maistro |
| 14:30 - 14:50 |
05:30 - 05:50 |
01:30 - 01:50 |
AMS42 at the NTCIR-18 FairWeb-2 Task (In-Person)
Clara Rus (speaker), Jasmin Kareem, Chen Xu, Yuanna Liu, Zhirui Deng and Maria Heuss |
| 14:50 - 15:10 |
05:50 - 06:10 |
01:50 - 02:10 |
RSLFW at the NTCIR-18 FairWeb-2 Task (In-Person)
Atsuya Ishikawa (speaker), Sijie Tao and Tetsuya Sakai |
| 15:10 - 15:30 |
06:10 - 06:30 |
02:10 - 02:30 |
THUIR at the NTCIR-18 FairWeb-2 Task (In-Person)
Huixue Su, Haitao Li, Yiteng Tu (speaker), Qingyao Ai and Yiqun Liu |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
06:30 - 06:45 |
02:30 - 02:45 |
Discussions, comments, and closing (In-Person)
Speaker: Hanpei Fang |
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| 15:45 - 16:15 |
06:45 - 07:15 |
02:45 - 03:15 |
Coffee Break |
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| 16:15 - 16:30 |
07:15 - 07:30 |
03:15 - 03:30 |
LSAT Focus: EAGLE’s Embedded Entities Highlighting Technique for NTCIR-18 Lifelog-6 (In-Person) Thang-Long Nguyen-Ho (speaker), Allie Tran, Minh-Triet Tran, Cathal Gurrin and Graham Healy |
| 16:30 - 16:45 |
07:30 - 07:45 |
03:30 - 03:45 |
Vitrivr-engine at the NTCIR-18 Lifelog-6 Task (Remote)
Luca Rossetto |
| 16:45 - 17:00 |
07:45 - 08:00 |
03:45 - 04:00 |
LifeIR at the NTCIR-18 Lifelog-6 Task (Remote)
Jiahan Chen (speaker), Da Li and Keping Bi |
| 17:00 - 17:15 |
08:00 - 08:15 |
04:00 - 04:15 |
DCU MemoriEase at the NTCIR-18 Lifelog 6 Task (Remote)
Quang-Linh Tran, Binh Nguyen, Gareth Jones and Cathal Gurrin |
| JST | UTC | EDT | |
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| 16:15 - 17:15 |
07:15 - 08:15 |
03:15 - 04:15 |
Hidden-Rad Unveiling the Hidden Causality in Radiology Reports: Exploring AI Advances and Future Directions in the HIDDEN-RAD Challenge * This session is open not only to task participants but to all attendees interested in discussing the future of this specific NTCIR-18 task. |
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| 17:15 - 18:15 |
08:15 - 09:15 |
04:15 - 05:15 |
Lifelog-6 The round table discussion session serves as an open forum for participants of the NTCIR-Lifelog task to share insights, reflect on system development experiences, discuss evaluation methodologies, and explore future directions for lifelog retrieval research. |
| JST | UTC | EDT | |
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| 19:00 - 21:00 |
10:00 - 12:00 |
06:00 - 08:00 |
Venue Information: Josui Kaikan 2-1-1, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0003 View on Google Maps |
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| 09:00 - 9:25 |
00:00 - 00:25 |
20:00 - 20:25 |
NTCIR-18 RadNLP 2024 Overview: Dataset and Solutions for Automated Lung Cancer Staging (In-Person) Yuta Nakamura, Koji Fujimoto, Jonas Kluckert, Michael Krauthammer, Jun Kanzawa, Akira Katayama, Tomohiro Kikuchi, Ryo Kurokawa, Wataru Gonoi, Yuki Tashiro, Shouhei Hanaoka, Shuntaro Yada (speaker) and Eiji Aramaki (speaker) |
| 09:25 - 9:50 |
00:25 - 00:50 |
20:25 - 20:50 |
TMUNLPG3 at the NTCIR-18 RadNLP Task (In-Person) Wen-Chao Yeh (speaker), 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 |
| 09:50 - 10:15 |
00:50 - 01:15 |
20:50 - 21:15 |
LLM-Based Two-stage Reasoning for TNM Staging: NECMedDX at the NTCIR-18 RadNLP Task (In-Person) Soma Onishi (speaker), Daisaku Shibata, Masanori Tsujikawa, Ryo Ishii, Junya Tominaga and Hideki Ota |
| JST | UTC | EDT | |
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| 09:15 - 09:35 |
00:15 - 00:35 |
20:15 - 20:35 |
KASYS at the NTCIR-18 SUSHI Task Haruki Fujimaki and Makoto P. Kato |
| 09:35 - 9:55 |
00:35 - 00:55 |
20:35 - 20:55 |
Biting into SUSHI: The University of Maryland at NTCIR-18
Douglas W. Oard, Shashank Bhardwaj and Emi Ishita |
| 09:55 - 10:15 |
00:55 - 01:15 |
20:55 - 21:15 |
QshuNLP's Participation in the SUSHI:\\ Systems and Analysis of the Results
Tokinori Suzuki and Yoichi Tomiura |
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| 10:15 - 10:45 |
01:15 - 01:45 |
21:15 - 21:45 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:45 - 11:10 |
01:45 - 02:10 |
21:45 - 22:10 |
NLI24 at the NTCIR-18 RadNLP (Online) Dhananjaya Bedkani Linganaik (speaker), Chirag Bhawnani, Sanjeeth J Veigas and Vishnu Kumar Jakhoria |
| 11:10 - 11:35 |
02:10 - 02:35 |
22:10 - 22:35 |
Automated Lung Cancer Staging from Radiological Reports: A Large Language Model Approach for the NTCIR-18 RadNLP Task (In-Person) Takahito Nakajima (speaker) |
| 11:35 - 12:00 |
02:35 - 03:00 |
22:35 - 23:00 |
Give lightning talks of poster presentations (In-Person) All the other poster presenters |
| JST | UTC | EDT | |
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| 10:45 - 10:50 |
01:45 - 01:50 |
21:45 - 21:50 |
Welcome Messages (In-Person) Junjie Chen |
| 10:50 - 11:05 |
01:50 - 02:05 |
21:50 - 22:05 |
UCLWI at the NTCIR-18 AEOLLM Task: A Low-Cost Comparison of RAGs (In-Person) Xiao Fu (speaker), Navdeep Singh Bedi, Noriko Kando, Fabio Crestani and Aldo Lipani |
| 11:05 - 11:20 |
02:05 - 02:20 |
22:05 - 22:20 |
KNUIR at the NTCIR-18 AEOLLM: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs (Remote) Yumi Kim (speaker), Meen Chul Kim and Jongwook Lee |
| 11:20 - 11:35 |
02:20 - 02:35 |
22:20 - 22:35 |
ISLab at the NTCIR-18 AEOLLM: An Evaluator for Machine-Generated Text based on Data Augmentation and ORPO (Remote) Chia-Hui Lin, Cen-Chieh Chen (speaker), Tao-Hsing Chang and Fu-Yuan Hsu |
| 11:35 - 11:50 |
02:35 - 02:50 |
22:35 - 22:50 |
PanguIR Technical Report for NTCIR-18 AEOLLM Task (In-Person) Lang Mei (speaker), Chong Chen and Jiaxin Mao |
| 11:50 - 12:00 |
02:50 - 03:00 |
22:50 - 23:00 |
Task Summary & Open Discussion (In-Person) Junjie Chen |
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| 12:00 - 13:30 |
03:00 - 04:30 |
23:00 - 00:30 |
Full Poster List |
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| 13:30 - 14:30 |
04:30 - 05:30 |
00:30 - 01:30 |
Keynote 2 Title: Things We Know That Aren’t (Always) True Speaker: Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland) |
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| 14:30 - 15:15 |
05:30 - 06:15 |
01:30 - 02:15 |
Invited Talk 1 Title: TREC (provisional) Speaker: Ian Soboroff (NIST, USA) Invited Talk 2 (In-Person) Title: MediaEval 2025 Multimedia Benchmarking Initiative Speaker: Gareth Jones (Dublin City University) |
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| 15:15 - 16:15 |
06:15 - 07:15 |
02:15 - 03:15 |
Closing, Awards & Wrapup
Qingyao Ai |
We are looking forward to seeing you soon!
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