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DAY-1 June 10 Tuesday: NTCIR-18 Conference & EVIA2025

10:00 - 11:30 NTCIR-18 Conference Workshops: FinTech in AI CUP special session

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22:30		 Workshops: FinTech in AI CUP special session


13:00 - 17:15 EVIA 2025, A Satellite Workshop of the NTCIR-18 Conference

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17:15		 04:00
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08:15		 00:00
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04:15		 EVIA 2025
The 11th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2025)


17:30 - 18:30 Round Table Discussion (breakout)

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18:30		 08:30
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19:30		 04:30
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05:30		 SUSHI

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DAY-2 June 11 Wednesday: NTCIR-18 Conference

9:30 - 11:15 Opening & Overview, Keynote 1 @ Hall

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10:15		 00:30
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01:15		 20:30
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21:15		 Welcome & Overview of NTCIR

Overview of the NTCIR

Overview of the NTCIR-18
10:15
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11:15		 01:15
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02:15		 21:15
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22:15		 Keynote 1
Speaker: Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)

11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break
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02:45		 22:15
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22:45		 Coffee Break

11:45 - 16:15 Task Overview Presentations @ Hall

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12:15		 02:45
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23:15		 Task Overview: AEOLLM, RadNLP

11:45 - 12:00
AEOLLM
Yiqun Liu, Qingyao Ai, Junjie Chen, Zhumin Chu and Haitao Li

12:00 - 12:15
RadNLP
Yuta Nakamura, Shouhei Hanaoka, Eiji Aramaki, Shuntaro Yada, Jun Kanzawa, Akira Katayama, Tomohiro Kikuchi, Ryo Kurokawa, Wataru Gonoi, Koji Fujimoto, Jonas Kluckert and Michael Krauthammer

12:15
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13:45		 03:15
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04:45		 23:15
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00:45		 Lunch & Posters; AEOLLM, RadNLP
13:45
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14:45		 04:45
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05:45		 00:45
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01:45		 Task Overview: FairWeb-2, Lifelog-6, Transfer-2, SUSHI

13:45 - 14:00
FairWeb-2
Maria Maistro, Tetsuya Sakai, Sijie Tao, Junjie Wang, Hanpei Fang, Yuxiang Zhang, Nuo Chen, Haitao Li and Yiteng Tu

14:00 - 14:15
Lifelog-6
Liting Zhou, 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 and Shuhei Yamamoto

14:30 - 14:45
SUSHI
Tokinori Suzuki, Douglas W. Oard, Emi Ishita and Yoichi Tomiura
14:45
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06:15		 01:45
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02:15 		Coffee Break
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16:15		 06:15
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03:15		 Task Overview: Hidden-RAD, MedNLP-CHAT, FingArg-2, U4

15:15 - 15:30
Hidden-RAD
Key-Sun Choi, 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, 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
FingArg-2
Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Hiroya Takamura, Yu-Lieh Huang and Alaa Alhamzeh

16:00 - 16:15
U4
Yasutomo Kimura, Eisaku Sato, Kazuma Kadowaki and Hokuto Ototake

16:15 - 17:00 Sponsor Session @ Hall

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17:00		 07:15
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08:00		 03:15
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04:00		 Sponsor Session

17:00 - 18:00 Panel @ Hall

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05:00		 Panel Session
Title: Panel on LLM-based Evaluation (provisional)
Moderator: Mark Sanderson (RMIT University)

18:45 - 19:30 Round Table Discussion (breakout)

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19:30		 09:45
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06:30		 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.

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DAY-3 June 12 Thursday: NTCIR-18 Conference

09:30 - 10:30 Task Session 1: Hidden-RAD

Session Chair: Key-Sun Choi (Konyang University, Republic of Korea)
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20:33		 Hidden-Rad at NTCIR-18 (In-Person)
Speaker: Key-Sun Choi
09:33
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09:52		 00:33
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00:52		 20:33
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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
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10:11		 00:52
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01:11		 20:52
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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
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10:30		 01:11
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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

09:30 - 10:30 Task Session 2: Transfer-2
Session Chair: Shuhei Yamamoto (University of Tsukuba)

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9:40		 00:30
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00:40		 20:30
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20:40		 Overview of the NTCIR-18 Transfer-2 Task (In-Person)
Hideo Joho, Atsushi Keyaki, Yuuki Tachioka and Shuhei Yamamoto (speaker)
09:40
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09:55		 00:40
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00:55		 19:40
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19:55		 ditlab at the NTCIR-18 Transfer-2 Task (In-Person)
Yuuki Tachioka and Yasunori Terao
09:55
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10:10		 00:55
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01:10		 19:55
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20:10		 YMX2L at the NTCIR-18 Transfer-2 Task (In-Person)
Riku Mizuguchi, Takeshi Yamazaki and Shuhei Yamamoto
10:10
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10:30		 01:10
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01:30		 20:10
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20:30		 Transfer-2 at NTCIR-18 and Next (In-Person)
Shuhei Yamamoto

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
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11:00		 01:30
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02:00		 21:30
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22:00		 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:45 Task Session 3: U4
Session Chair: Yasutomo Kimura (Otaru University of Commerce)

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22:05		 U4 at NTCIR-18 (In-Person)
Yasutomo Kimura (speaker)
11:05
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11:25		 02:05
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02:25		 22:05
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22:25		 AIREV at the NTCIR-18 U4 Task (In-Person)
Xin Fan (speaker), Kazuya Uesato, Yuma Hayashi and Tsuyoshi Morioka
11:25
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11:45		 02:25
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02:45		 22:25
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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
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12:05		 02:45
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03:05		 22:45
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23:05		 STMK24 NTCIR18 U4 Table QA Submission (In-Person)
Hayato Aida (speaker), Kosuke Takahashi and Takahiro Omi
12:05
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12:25		 03:05
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03:25		 23:05
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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
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12:45		 03:25
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03:45		 23:25
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23:45		 Discussion and closing (In-Person)

11:00 - 12:45 Task Session 4: MedNLP-CHAT
Session Chair: Eiji Aramaki, Shuntaro Yada, Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan)

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11:20		 02:00
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02:20		 22:00
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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
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11:40		 02:20
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02:40		 22:20
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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
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12:00		 02:40
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03:00		 22:40
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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
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12:20		 03:00
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03:20		 23:00
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23:20		 AITOK at the NTCIR-18 MedNLP-CHAT to Identify Medical, Ethical and Legal Risks in Patient-Doctor Conversation (In-Person)
Hiroki Tanioka
12:20
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12:45		 03:20
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03:45		 23:20
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23:45		 lightling talk of posters (In-Person)

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch & Posters (Hidden-RAD, Transfer-2, U4, MedNLP-CHAT)

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05:15		 23:45
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01:15		 Lunch & Posters (Hidden-RAD, Transfer-2, U4, MedNLP-CHAT)


14:15 - 15:45 Task Session 5: FinArg-2
Session Chair: Chung-Chi Chen (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)

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14:20		 05:15
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01:20		 Welcome Messages (In-person)
Speaker: Chung-Chi Chen
14:20
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14:30		 05:20
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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
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14:40		 05:30
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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 (speaker), Wen-Hsin Hsiao, Jun-Yu Wu, Cheng-Yun Wu and Min-Yuh Day
14:40
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14:50		 05:40
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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
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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
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01:20		 AI Cup sharing & Findings (In-Person)
Speaker: Prof. Tzong-Han Tsai
15:20
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01:40		 Discussion on FinArg-3 (In-Person)
Speaker: Chung-Chi Chen

14:15 - 15:45 Task Session 6: FairWeb-2
Session Chair: Hanpei Fang (Waseda University, Japan)

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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
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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
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02:10		 RSLFW at the NTCIR-18 FairWeb-2 Task (In-Person)
Atsuya Ishikawa (speaker), Sijie Tao and Tetsuya Sakai
15:10
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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
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02:45		 Discussions, comments, and closing (In-Person)
Speaker: Hanpei Fang

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break
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03:15		 Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:15 Task Session 7: Lifelog-6
Session Chair: Liting Zhou (Dublin City University, Ireland)

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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
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03:45		 Vitrivr-engine at the NTCIR-18 Lifelog-6 Task (Remote)
Luca Rossetto
16:45
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04:00		 LifeIR at the NTCIR-18 Lifelog-6 Task (Remote)
Jiahan Chen (speaker), Da Li and Keping Bi
17:00
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04:15		 DCU MemoriEase at the NTCIR-18 Lifelog 6 Task (Remote)
Quang-Linh Tran, Binh Nguyen, Gareth Jones and Cathal Gurrin

16:15 - 17:15 Round Table Discussion (breakout)
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04:15		 Hidden-Rad
Unveiling the Hidden Causality in Radiology Reports: Exploring AI Advances and Future Directions in the HIDDEN-RAD Challenge

18:00 - 20:00 Banquet @ Josui kaikan

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07:00		 Banquet

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DAY-4 June 13 Friday: NTCIR-18 Conference

09:00 - 10:15 Task Session 8: RadNLP - 1
Session Chair: Eiji Aramaki and Shuntaro Yada (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan)
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9:25		 00:00
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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 and Eiji Aramaki (speaker)
09:25
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20:50		 TMUNLPG3 at the NTCIR-18 RadNLP Task (In-Person)
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
09:50
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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

09:15 - 10:15 Task Session 9: SUSHI
Session Chair: Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland, USA)

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20:35		 KASYS at the NTCIR-18 SUSHI Task
Haruki Fujimaki and Makoto P. Kato
09:35
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20:55		 Biting into SUSHI: The University of Maryland at NTCIR-18
Douglas W. Oard, Shashank Bhardwaj and Emi Ishita
09:55
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21:15		 QshuNLP's Participation in the SUSHI:\\ Systems and Analysis of the Results
Tokinori Suzuki and Yoichi Tomiura

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
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10:45 - 12:00 Task Session 10: RadNLP - 2
Session Chair: Eiji Aramaki and Shuntaro Yada (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan)

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22:10		 NLI24 at the NTCIR-18 RadNLP (Online)
Dhananjaya Bedkani Linganaik (speaker), Chirag Bhawnani, Sanjeeth J Veigas and Vishnu Kumar Jakhoria
11:10
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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
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23:00		 Give lightning talks of poster presentations (In-Person)
All the other poster presenters

10:45 - 12:00 Task Session 11: AEOLLM
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23:00		 Task Session 11: AEOLLM

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch & Posters (FinArg-2, FairWeb-2, Lifelog-6, SUSHI)

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00:30		 Lunch & Posters (FinArg-2, FairWeb-2, Lifelog-6, SUSHI)

13:30 - 14:30 Keynote 2

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01:30		 Keynote 2
Speaker: Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland)
Title: Things We Know That Aren’t (Always) True

14:30 - 15:15 Invited Talk

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02:15		 Invited Talk
Title: TREC (provisional)
Speaker: Ian Soboroff (NIST, USA)

Title: TBA
Speaker: Martha Larson (Radbound University) and Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)

15:15 - 16:15 Closing; Awards, Tasks @ NTCIR-19 & Wrap-up

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07:15		 02:15
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03:15		 Closing, Awards & Wrapup

We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

Last modified: 2025-05-22