NTCIR-19
Program
Conference Information & Venues
- Date: December 8 (Tue) – 10 (Thu), 2026
- Venues: National Institute of Informatics (NII)
- Day 1: Hitotsubashi Hall (2F)
- Day 2: Rooms 1, 2, 3, 4 (2F) / Day 3: Room 2, 3, 4 (2F)
- Lunch & Poster Sessions: 3F Cafeteria
- Banquet: December 9 (Wed) 19:00 @ Josui Kaikan
- Co-located Event: EVIA 2026 (December 10, 14:00 -)
Day 1: December 8 (Tue), 2026
| Time | Program / Session | Place |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration | Hitotsubashi Hall |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Opening & Overview | Hitotsubashi Hall |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Keynote 1: Bhaskar Mitra "Seize the Means of Retrieval: Safeguarding Our Information Platforms from Corporate and Authoritarian Capture" | Hitotsubashi Hall |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | - |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Task Overview (Part 1) SciClaimEval / MedNLP-CALL / DAGRI / AEOLLM-2 | Hitotsubashi Hall |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch & Poster Session 5 tasks | 3F Cafeteria |
| 14:00 - 15:15 | Task Overview (Part 2) FinArg-3 / R2C2 / Lifelog-7 / ToT / CAMEO | Hitotsubashi Hall |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee Break | - |
| 15:45 - 17:00 | Task Overview (Part 3) ModelRetrieval / RegCom / FEHU / HIDDEN-RAD2 / AgenticInstruction | Hitotsubashi Hall |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Sponsor Session | Hitotsubashi Hall |
| 17:15 - 18:15 | NTCIR Special Session: Noriko Kando Free and open to the public | Hitotsubashi Hall |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | NTCIR Special Session Reception Additional fee required | - |
Day 1 Session Details
09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Hitotsubashi Hall)
09:30 - 10:00
Hitotsubashi Hall
Opening & Overview
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10:00 - 11:00
Hitotsubashi Hall
Keynote 1: Bhaskar Mitra
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Title: Seize the Means of Retrieval: Safeguarding Our Information Platforms from Corporate and Authoritarian Capture
Speaker: Bhaskar Mitra
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Hitotsubashi Hall
Task Overview (Part 1)
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11:30 - 11:45SciClaimEval (Task Overview)
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11:45 - 12:00MedNLP-CALL (Task Overview)
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12:00 - 12:15DAGRI (Task Overview)
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12:15 - 12:30AEOLLM-2 (Task Overview)
12:30 - 14:00
3F Cafeteria
Lunch & Poster Session (Day 1)
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14:00 - 15:15
Hitotsubashi Hall
Task Overview (Part 2)
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14:00 - 14:15FinArg-3 (Task Overview)
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14:15 - 14:30R2C2 (Task Overview)
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14:30 - 14:45Lifelog-7 (Task Overview)
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14:45 - 15:00ToT (Task Overview)
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15:00 - 15:15CAMEO (Task Overview)
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00
Hitotsubashi Hall
Task Overview (Part 3)
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15:45 - 16:00ModelRetrieval (Task Overview)
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16:00 - 16:15RegCom (Task Overview)
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16:15 - 16:30FEHU (Task Overview)
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16:30 - 16:45HIDDEN-RAD2 (Task Overview)
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16:45 - 17:00AgenticInstruction (Task Overview)
17:00 - 17:15
Hitotsubashi Hall
Sponsor Session
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17:15 - 18:15
Hitotsubashi Hall
NTCIR Special Session: Noriko Kando
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Title: TBA
Speaker: Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics)
19:00 - 21:00
Hitotsubashi Hall
NTCIR Special Session Reception
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Day 2: December 9 (Wed), 2026
| Time | Room 4 | Room 3 | Room 2 | Room 1 |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration | |||
| 09:30 - 10:30 | HIDDEN-RAD2 Task Session 1-A | FEHU Task Session 1-B | - | - |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee Break | |||
| 10:50 - 11:50 | RegCom Task Session 2-A | ModelRetrieval Task Session 2-B | CAMEO Task Session 2-C | - |
| 11:50 - 13:20 | Lunch & Poster Session @ 3F Cafeteria 5 tasks | |||
| 13:20 - 14:20 | ToT Task Session 3-A | Lifelog-7 Task Session 3-B | R2C2 Task Session 3-C | - |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Coffee Break | |||
| 14:40 - 15:40 | DAGRI Task Session 4-A | FinArg-3 Task Session 4-B | AEOLLM-2 Task Session 4-C | - |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |||
| 16:00 - 17:30 | AI Cup Session 5-A | MedNLP-CALL Task Session 5-B | SciClaimEval Task Session 5-C | AgenticInstruction Task Session 5-D |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Banquet @ Josui Kaikan | |||
Day 2 Task Session Details
09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Rooms 2, 3, 4)
09:30 - 10:30
Slot 1
Room 4
Task Session 1-A: HIDDEN-RAD2
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09:30 - 09:35HIDDEN-RAD2: Session Introduction and Key Evaluation Findings
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09:35 - 09:55RadNLP+ paper presentation, including Q&A
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09:55 - 10:15Teddysum paper presentation, including Q&A
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10:15 - 10:30Discussion and Closing: Evaluation Findings and Future Directions
Room 3
Task Session 1-B: FEHU
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09:30 - 09:37Opening & Task Overview Recap
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09:37 - 09:49Label-Aware Prompt Ensembling and Frequency-Gated Heterogeneous Fusion for Human-Value Recognition
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09:49 - 10:01IIUoT at the NTCIR-19 FEHU Task: LoRA fine-tuning with rare-label and direction-aware oversampling for actor-conditioned human value recognition
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10:01 - 10:06Discussion & Closing
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:50
Slot 2
Room 4
Task Session 2-A: RegCom
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10:50 - 10:55Opening
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10:55 - 11:25Invited Talk
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11:25 - 11:35Participant - CSCU
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11:35 - 11:45Participant - IMNTPU
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11:45 - 11:55Participant - Cierpa
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11:55 - 12:00Closing
Room 3
Task Session 2-B: ModelRetrieval
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10:50 - 10:53Opening
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10:53 - 11:08UHGSIS at the NTCIR-19 ModelRetrieval Task
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11:08 - 11:23Team mbys at the NTCIR-19 ModelRetrieval Task: TF-IDF-based Ranking and ConvNeXt-based Image Classification Approaches
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11:23 - 11:35Shizud-AI at the NTCIR-19 ModelRetrieval Task: Weight-Based Image-to-LoRA Retrieval with Global and Token-Level Matching
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11:35 - 11:47CYUT at the NTCIR-19 ModelRetrieval Task: Language Model Retrieval via Pairwise LightGBM and LLM Profile Synthesis
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11:47 - 11:50Discussion & Closing
Room 2
Task Session 2-C: CAMEO
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10:50 - 11:00Overview of CAMEO: Composed Access to Multimodal E-commerce Objects
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11:00 - 11:08Fivepoint at the NTCIR-19 CAMEO Task
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11:08 - 11:16WKDL at the NTCIR-19 CAMEO Task
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11:16 - 11:24retrank at the NTCIR-19 CAMEO Task
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11:24 - 11:32TeamLMTP at the NTCIR-19 CAMEO Task
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11:32 - 11:40chingshin-1 at the NTCIR-19 CAMEO Task
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11:40 - 11:48chjhs02 at the NTCIR-19 CAMEO Task
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11:48 - 11:50Closing: lessons learned and plans for CAMEO-2 at NTCIR-20
11:50 - 13:20
3F Cafeteria
Lunch & Poster Session (Day 2)
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13:20 - 14:20
Slot 3
Room 4
Task Session 3-A: ToT
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13:20 - 13:22Opening
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13:22 - 13:30UBCS at the NTCIR-19 ToT Task
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13:30 - 13:38NYCUNLP at the NTCIR-19 Tip-of-the-Tongue Task: Task-Adaptive Dense Retrieval and Neural Reranking
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13:38 - 13:46TMUNLP at the NTCIR-19 ToT Task
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13:46 - 13:54UFMG at NTCIR-19: Retriever-Aware Query Rewriting for ToT Known Item Retrieval
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13:54 - 14:02Webis at the NTCIR-19 Tip-of-the-Tongue Shared Task
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14:02 - 14:10SBINT at the NTCIR-19 ToT Task
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14:10 - 14:18AITOK at the NTCIR-19 ToT Task to Improve Multilingual Retrieval through LLM-Based Query Reformulation
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14:18 - 14:20Closing
Room 3
Task Session 3-B: Lifelog-7
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13:20 - 13:24Overview of the NTCIR-19 Lifelog-7 Task
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13:24 - 13:31YMX2L at the NTCIR-19 Lifelog-7 Task: Structure-Aware Multimodal Retrieval and Conversation Segmentation
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13:31 - 13:38EyeSpy at the NTCIR-19 Lifelog-7 Task
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13:38 - 13:45CLIP-Based Visual Lifelog Retrieval System using Quality Filtering and Event Expansion
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13:45 - 13:52EventSieve at the NTCIR-19 Lifelog-7 Task
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13:52 - 13:59DCU MemoriEase at the NTCIR-19 Lifelog 7 Task
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13:59 - 14:06ZJGSU1 at the NTCIR-19 Lifelog Task
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14:06 - 14:13Semantic Video Chunking with Video-LLM Reranking for the NTCIR-19 Lifelog-7 CSAT Task
Room 2
Task Session 3-C: R2C2
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13:20 - 13:27Opening & Task Overview Recap
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13:27 - 13:39Hit-u at the NTCIR-19 R2C2 Task
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13:39 - 13:51BITEM at the NTCIR-19 R2C2 Task: Predicting Confidence from Agentic RAG Pipeline Signals
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13:51 - 14:03WaterlooClarke at the NTCIR-19 R2C2 Task
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14:03 - 14:15retrank at the NTCIR-19 R2C2 Task
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14:15 - 14:20Discussion & Closing
14:20 - 14:40
Coffee Break
14:40 - 15:40
Slot 4
Room 4
Task Session 4-A: DAGRI
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14:40 - 14:46Overview of the NTCIR-19 DAGRI Task
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14:46 - 14:59Takasu Lab at the NTCIR-19 DAGRI Task: Hybrid OCR and Deterministic Post-Correction for Agricultural Table Information Extraction
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14:59 - 15:12FUNLP at the NTCIR-19 DAGRI Task
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15:12 - 15:25Multi-Modal Agricultural Document Understanding at the DAGRI Task
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15:25 - 15:30Discussion on TableIE: Approaches and Future Directions
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15:30 - 15:35Discussion on MTMH-QA: Approaches and Future Directions
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15:35 - 15:40Discussion on FiT-QA: Approaches and Future Directions
Room 3
Task Session 4-B: FinArg-3
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14:40 - 14:47Opening
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14:47 - 14:59Participant - MouMouRUC
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14:59 - 15:11Participant - TMAK
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15:11 - 15:23Participant - TMUNLP
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15:23 - 15:35Participant - BAIBAICHUCHU
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15:35 - 15:40Closing
Room 2
Task Session 4-C: AEOLLM-2
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14:40 - 14:53RSLIR at the NTCIR-19 AEOLLM-2 Task
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14:53 - 15:06ISLab at the NTCIR-19 AEOLLM-2 Task: A Long-Text Quality Evaluator Based on Automated Prompt Optimization
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15:06 - 15:19TMUHLLA at the NTCIR-19 AEOLLM-2 Task: Holistic Judging with Pairwise Consensus
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15:19 - 15:32LINKLab at the NTCIR-19 AEOLLM-2 Task: Dimension-Aware Pairwise Preference Learning for Long-Form Report Evaluation
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15:32 - 15:40Discussion & Closing
15:40 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
Slot 5
Room 4
Session 5-A: AI Cup
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16:00 - 16:20Opening & Task Overview Recap
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16:20 - 16:35When Are Offline Scores Trustworthy?
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16:35 - 16:50Hierarchical Projection as a Validity Layer for Multilingual ESG Promise Verification
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16:50 - 17:05Reliability and Error Propagation of Cascade Classifiers in Firm-Level ESG Promise Verification
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17:05 - 17:20Beyond Random Negatives: Difficulty-Stratified Counterfactual Tests for Promise–Evidence Alignment
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17:20 - 17:30Discussion & Closing
Room 3
Task Session 5-B: MedNLP-CALL
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16:00 - 16:14NTCIR-19 MedNLP-CALL Medical Natural Language Processing for Emergency Call: Task Overview
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16:14 - 16:26TMUNLP at the NTCIR-19 MedNLP-CALL Task
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16:26 - 16:38NECFRDX at the NTCIR-19 MedNLP-CALL Task: Accurate Emergency Call Triage by Protocol-Guided Finding Extraction with Large Language Models
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16:38 - 16:50tsukurad at NTCIR-19 MedNLP-CALL: Device-Local Emergency Call Triage with an SFT LLM and a Rule-Based Engine
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16:50 - 17:02NYCUNLP at the NTCIR-19 MedNLP-Call Task: Finetuning Large Language Models for Emergency-Call Triage Classification and Dispatcher–Caller Dialogue Summarization
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17:02 - 17:05SOSCOM01 at the NTCIR-19 MedNLP-CALL Task: Table-Based Clinical Feature Extraction for Multilingual Emergency Call Summarization
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17:05 - 17:08TUSNLP at the NTCIR-19 MedNLP-CALL Task: A Study on the Compatibility of Performance and Explainability in Triage Models Using Emergency Call Conversations
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17:08 - 17:11IMNTPU at NTCIR-19 MedNLP-CALL: Multilingual Emergency Call Triage and Summarization with Hybrid NLP Strategies
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17:11 - 17:14AITOK at the NTCIR-19 MedNLP-CALL Task: Multilingual LLM-Based Triage with Confidence-Weighted Prior Adjustment and Call Summarization
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17:14 - 17:17In2Lab-TNT at the NTCIR-19 MedNLP-Call: Multilingual Emergency Call Triage and Summarization with Gradient Boosting and Retrieval-Augmented LLMs
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17:17 - 17:20NLP26 at the NTCIR-19 MedNLP-CALL Task: Language-specific and multilingual transformer pipelines for emergency call triage classification and summarization
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17:20 - 17:25Discussion and closing
Room 2
Task Session 5-C: SciClaimEval
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16:00 - 16:08Opening & Task Overview Recap
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16:08 - 16:20SciTrue: Reliable Scientific Claim Validation with Frontier and Open Language Models at the NTCIR SciClaimEval Task
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16:20 - 16:32SIB Text Mining at the NTCIR-19 SciClaimEval Task
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16:32 - 16:44Black Socks at the NTCIR-19 SciClaimEval Task: Pairwise Prompting for Checking Cross-Modal Scientific Claims
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16:44 - 16:56Takasu Lab at the NTCIR-19 SciClaimEval Task: Plugin Pipelines with Deterministic Evidence Checks for Cross-modal Claim Verification
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16:56 - 17:08Bonn-Juelich Informatics at the NTCIR-19 SciClaimEval Task
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17:08 - 17:20LMU & TUM NLP at the NTCIR-19 SciClaimEval Task: Structured Evidence and Two-Step Operation Reasoning for Cross-modal Scientific Claim Verification
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17:20 - 17:30Discussion & Closing
Room 1
Task Session 5-D: AgenticInstruction
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16:00 - 16:05Session Opening
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16:05 - 16:20NLPI-NTNU at the NTCIR-19 AgenticInstruction Task
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16:20 - 16:30Closing Discussion
19:00 - 21:00
Josui Kaikan
Banquet
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Day 3: December 10 (Thu), 2026
| Time | Program / Session | Place |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 | Registration | Room 2, 3, 4 |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Invited Talks Speakers TBA | Room 2, 3, 4 |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Keynote 2: Johanne R. Trippas "The Hidden Labour of Information Access: Rethinking Interactive Evaluation" | Room 2, 3, 4 |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Lunch & Poster Session 5 tasks | 3F Cafeteria |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Closing & Award Ceremony | Room 2, 3, 4 |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | EVIA 2026 (Satellite Workshop) The 12th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access | Room 2, 3, 4 |
Day 3 Session Details
09:00 - 10:00
Registration (Room 2, 3, 4)
10:00 - 10:30
Room 2, 3, 4
Invited Talks
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Title: TBA
Speaker: TBA
10:30 - 11:30
Room 2, 3, 4
Keynote 2: Johanne R. Trippas
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Title: The Hidden Labour of Information Access: Rethinking Interactive Evaluation
Speaker: Johanne R. Trippas (RMIT University, Australia)
11:30 - 13:00
3F Cafeteria
Lunch & Poster Session (Day 3)
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13:00 - 13:30
Room 2, 3, 4
Closing & Award Ceremony
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14:00 - 17:00