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The 9th NTCIR Workshop

Organizers
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General co-chairs
(Names in alphabetical order of family names)
Noriko Kando National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Tsuneaki Kato

The University of Tokyo, Japan
Eiichiro Sumita National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Organizing Committee
(Names in alphabetical order of family names)
Akiko Aizawa

National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Atsushi Fujii

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Daisuke Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Kai Ishikawa

NEC Corporation, Japan

Hiroshi Nakagawa

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Hidetsugu Nanba

Hiroshima City University, Japan

Yohei Seki

University of Tsukuba, Japan

Regional Publicity Chairs
(Names in alphabetical order of family names)
Hideo Joho (Europe)
Ian Soboroff (USA) NIST, USA
Tetsuya Sakai (Japan)
Ruihua Song (China)
Youngin Song (Korea)
William Webber (Australia)

EVIA co-chairs
(Names in alphabetical order of family names)
Kazuaki Kishida Keio University, Japan
Mark Sanderson The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
William Webber University of Melbourne, Australia

Program Co-chairs
(-->Program Committee)
Hideo Joho University of Tsukuba, Japan
Tetsuya Sakai Microsoft Research Asia, China

Task Organizers
Core Tasks
Geotemporal Information Retrieval Task (GeoTime)
Fredric C. Gey University of California, Berkeley, USA
Noriko Kando National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Ray R. Larson University of California, Berkeley, USA
Sung-Hyon Myaeng

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea 

Masaharu Yoshioka Hokkaido University, Japan
Jorge Machado INESC-ID, Portugal

Intent Task with One Click Access subtask (INTENT with 1CLICK)
Tetsuya Sakai Microsoft Research Asia, China
Ruihua Song Microsoft Research Asia, China
Min Zhang Tsinghua University, China
Yiqun Liu Tsinghua University, China
Makoto Kato Kyoto University, Japan
Nick Craswell Microsoft, USA
Youngin Song Microsoft Research Asia, China

IR for Spoken Documents (SpokenDoc)
Tomoyoshi Akiba Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Hiromitsu Nishizaki University of Yamanashi, Japan
Kiyoaki Aikawa Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
Tatsuya Kawahara Kyoto University, Japan
Tomoko Matsui The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan

Recognizing Inference in TExt Task (RITE)
Hideki Shima Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Teruko Mitamura Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Hiroshi Kanayama

IBM Research - Tokyo, Japan

Koichi Takeda

IBM Research - Tokyo, Japan
Yusuke Miyao National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Shuming Shi Microsft Research Asia, China
Chuan-Jie Lin National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Cheng-Wei Lee Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Pilot Tasks
Cross-lingual Link Discovery Task (CrossLink)
Shlomo Geva Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Andrew Trotman University of Otago, New Zealand
Yue Xu Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Eric Tang Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Darren Huang Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Kelly Itakura Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Interactive Visual Exploration Task (Vis-Ex)
Hideo Joho University of Tsukuba, Japan
Tsuneaki Kato The University of Tokyo
Mitsunori Matsushita Kansai University

Patent Machine Translation Task (PatentMT)
Chinese-
English
Benjamin Tsou Hong Kong Institute of Education/ City University of Hong Kong, China
Kapo Chow Hong Kong Institute of Education, China
Bin Lu City University of Hong Kong, China
Japanese-
English
Eiichiro Sumita National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Isao Goto National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

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