The NTCIR-7 Workshop ended successfully. Thank you for your participation, cooperation and interest.

For NTCIR-8 Workshop, please visit at NTCIR-8 Workshop

  Participation is invited from anyone interested in research on information access technologies and evaluation of them, such as retrieval of various document genres, cross-lingual information retrieval of Asian languages, question answering and cross-lingual information access. NTCIR Workshops are periodical event which are held once per one and half years.

  For further information, please contact Noriko Kando at ntc-admin

Online Proceedigs

• NTCIR-7¥EVIA2008 Online Proceedings (with bibtex and evaluation results)

What's New at NTCIR-7

• The main NTCIR home page: What's New and Upcoming Events
• The NTCIR Email Archive for general email announcements
• Or use the Blog to see a list of what's new for NTCIR-7

Cluster Organization

  For the 7th NTCIR Evaluation Workshop, the various tasks have been organized into different clusters, each with an embedded CLIR component and additional information access aspects. Participants are encouraged to apply their IR system to problems from as many clusters as they like.

• Cluster 1: Advanced Cross-lingual Information Access (ACLIA)
• Cluster 2: User Generated Contents
  • Multi-Lingual Opinion Analysis Task (MOAT)
  • Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval over Blog (CLIR-B)
• Cluster 3: Information Access to Focused Domains (PATENT)
  • Patent Mining Task (PAT MN)
  • Patent Translation Task (PAT MT)
• Cluster 4: Multimodal Summarization of Trends (MuST)