We are very glad to invite you to attend the sixth NTCIR Workshop Meeting
to be held on May 15-18, 2007 at NII, Tokyo, Japan.
Please come and present your experimental results and findings, and join
the discussion!
The NTCIR Workshop Meeting is a four days meeting. This year, all sessions
are open to public and anyone interested in the research and evaluation
of information access technologies like IR, QA, various types of information
extraction including trend and opinion and their cross-language application
are welcome to come and join the discussion. All the sessions are held
in English.
The online registration is available soon.
1. Background
The NTCIR Workshop is a series of evaluation workshops designed to enhance
the research in information access technologies such as information retrieval,
question answering, summarization, information extraction and analysis
and so on by providing infrastructures for large-scale evaluation and a
forum for the researchers who are interested in cross-system comparison
and exchanging research ideas in informal atmosphere. The main component
of the infrastructure is large-scale test collections usable for experiments.
84 research groups from 12 different countries and areas participated and
submitted results to one or more tasks at NTCIR-6.
2. Tasks
The Sixth NTCIR Workshop (NTCIR-6) selected the following research areas
or topics as "tasks" to be experimented and investigated:
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- -Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Task (CLIR)
- Cross- and mono-lingual IR on Chinese, Korean, Japanese
- -Cross-Language Question Answering Task (CLQA)
- QA on Chinese, Chinese - English, and Japanese - English
- -Patent Retrieval Task (Patent)
- Invalidity search (search patents by patent claim)
Automatic classification
- -Question Answering Challenge (QAC)
- Various types of questions including definition
- -Pilot Task: Opinion Analysis Task (OPINION)
- Opinion Analysis on Chinese, English, Japanese
- -Pilot Workshop: MuST
- Multi Modal Summarization of Trend
3. Program
The overview and the investigation conducted by each of the 84 participating
groups from 12 different countries and areas are presented at the Meeting.
All active task participating groups present their own experimental results
and findings either at oral or digital poster sessions.
Discussing what and how we shall evaluate and what we learned from the
results in an informal atmosphere is one of the attractive experiences
we have through the NTCIR Workshop. We do hope you will enjoy the discussion
and exchanging the research idea.
- Pre-Meeting Workshop (EVIA - Evaluation Information Access):
- NTCIR-6 Meeting also hosts an EVIA - Evaluation Information Access as a
pre-meeting workshop and referred and invited papers will be presented
. Paper submissions are invited from anybody who is interested in the investigation
of the information access technologies and the evaluation methodologies.
Submissions from non-NTCIR task participants are welcome.
- Pre-Meeting tutorial: "Introduction to NTCIR"
- It is basically for newcomers.
4. Registration
All sessions are open for those who registered on-line.
We will open the registration on March 20, 2007.
*Online registration will close at midnight, May 6, 2007 Japan time.
5. Enquiry
(scientific): noriko.kando
(on registration): ntcir6_reg
(others): ntcir6
You are most welcome!
We are looking forward to seeing you at the NTCIR-6 Meeting!
Last updated: March 15, 2007
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