The 19th NTCIR (2025 - 2026)
NTCIR-19
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
Conference
December 8-10, 2026
NII, Tokyo, Japan
NEWS
What's New
| 2025.07.17 |
Call for Additional Task Proposals for NTCIR-19
(due: August 8th, 2025) |
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| 2025.07.08 |
NTCIR-19 Kickoff Meeting will be held on the afternoon of September 3, 2025 as a hybrid meeting.
More details will delivered through the ntcir mailing list: ntcir |
| 2025.06.27 | The NTCIR-19 Program Committee has selected the following eleven tasks. |
| 2025.03.27 |
Deadline extended: NTCIR-19 Call for Task Proposals.
(due: |
| 2025.03.14 |
NTCIR-19 Call for Task Proposals released.
(due: March 31, 2025) |
TASKS
Accepted Tasks
CORE TASKS
AEOLLM-2: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs 2
FinArg-3: Argument Quality Assessment of Financial Forward-Looking Statements
HIDDEN-RAD2: Hidden Causal Reasoning in Radiology Report Generation
Lifelog-7: Personal Lifelog Organization Retrieval Task
MedNLP-CALL: Medical Natural Language Processing for emergency Call
PILOT TASKS
CAMEO: Composed Access to Multimodal E-commerce Objects
DAGRI: Data Analytics for aGRicultural Information
FEHU: Fact-based Event-centric Human-value Understanding
R2C2: RAG Responses Confident and Correct?
RegCom: Multinational, Multilingual, Multi-Industry Regulatory Compliance Checking
SciClaimEval: Cross-modal Claim Verification in Scientific Papers
For more details on each task, we will announce as soon as it is ready.
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SCHEDULE
Tentative Schedule
| September 3, 2025 | NTCIR-19 Kick-Off Event (hybrid) |
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| January 2026 | Dataset release* |
| January-June 2026 | Dry run* |
| March-July 2026 | Formal run* |
| August 1, 2026 | Evaluation results return |
| August 1, 2026 | Task overview release (draft) |
| September 1, 2026 | Submission due of participant papers (draft) |
| November 1, 2026 | Camera-ready participant paper due |
| December 8-10, 2026 | NTCIR-19 Conference (NII, Tokyo, Japan) |
(* indicates that the schedule can be different for different tasks)
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CONTACT
NTCIR-19 Contact Information
Organization
General Co -chairs
Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada),
Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba / National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan),
Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
E-mail: ntc19-gc
Program Committee 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)
E-mail: ntc19-pcc
Honorary Co-chair
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan)
General
NTCIR Project
NTCIR Project Office, National Institute of Informatics,
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
101-8430, JAPAN
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Phone: 03-4212-2750
Last Modified: 2025-07-09