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DAY-1 Dec 16 Tuesday


AM
Introduction to NTCIR*
by Noriko Kando
Round-Table Meeting for some of the NTCIR-7 tasks or NTCIR-8 proposals
Lunch break**

PM
The 2nd International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2008)
Chairs: Mark Sanderson & Tetsuya Sakai
* Basically for new comers
** Lunch is not provided

DAY-2 Dec 17 Wednesday

9:00- Light Refreshment


AM
Opening, Welcome
Overview for NTCIR-7 by Noriko Kando
Session 1: Advanced Cross-Lingual Information Access (ACLIA) - Complex Cross Lingual Question Ansering (CCLQA)
Poster Session 1 (with Buffet Lunch)
PM Session 2: PATENT Mining
Break out Session


DAY-3 Dec 18 Thursday

9:00- Light Refreshment

AM
Session 3: PATENT Translation
Invited Talk
Mihai Lupu (Infromation Retrieval Facility)
Poster Session 2 (with buffet lunch)
PM Session 4: Advanced Cross-Lingual Information Access (ACLIA) - Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA)
Invited Talk
Carol Peters and Nicola Ferro (Cross-Language Evaluation Forum)
Invited Talk
Prasenjit Majumder (FIRE)
Banquet


DAY-4 Dec 19 Friday

9:00- Light Refreshment

AM
Invited Talk
Ian Soboroff (video) (TAC/TREC)
Session 5: Multilingual Opinion Analysis (MOAT)
Poster Session 3 (with buffet lunch)
PM Session 6: Multimodal Summarization of Trends (MuST)
Break out sessions
Wrap-up
Mark Sanderson


If you would like to have a round-table meeting or workshop for tasks done at NTCIR-7 or tasks proposed for NTCIR-8, please let us know. We will arrange the meeting places. The following time slots are available with pre-booking.

TIME SLOTs available for Round-table/workshop for task(s).

  • Monday, Dec 15: all day
  • Tuesday, Dec 16:  9:00-13:00
  • Wednesday, Dec 17: after 17:40-
  • Friday, Dec 19: after 17:30-
  • Saturday, Dec 20: all day

    The meeting place will be available first-come-first-served basis. Earlier arragnement will be appreciative.

    We are looking forward to seeing you soon!


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