*1:"Overview of the NTCIR Workshop 2" including,

• Brief history of NTCIR, Purpose
• Introduction of NTCADM members
• Tasks of NTCIR Workshop 2
• Participants
• Number of submitted resutls and its brief statistics
• Characteristic aspects of NTCIR
• IR+NLP:
• Multilingual Information & Asian Language; CLIR, Segmentation
• Evaluation: trying to more realistic: ex. document genres and
• user groups,multigrade relevance judgments
• Future plan
• Web
• CLIR: Chinese-Japanese-Englsih, comparable corpora
• Q&A

*2: Each Task's overview including

• Purpose, motivation
• Evaluation methods
• Collection used
• Summary of Results -- emphasis on unique aspects of each run
• Future plan

*3: IR evaluation in Korea, which is keeping close relation with the NTCIR

*4: Cross-language IR Evaluation Forum in European Languages