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NTCIR-8 Test Collections: Documents

The following documents collections are used for the 8th NTCIR Workshop. They are available for the participating research groups free of charge for the task participation and system evaluation within the 8th NTCIR Workshop (*1). To obtain the data, the signed user agreement forms must be submitted to the NTCIR Project Office at the NII.

*1: Nominal shipping cost (about US$50) may be required for the data provided by the LDC.

task	test collection	data
		genre/ task	language	file name	Distribution Data	number of documents (size)	year
ACLIA	Document Data	news articles	Ct	UDN2002-2005	01-07-09	1,663,517	02-05
			Cs	Xinhua Chinese**a	01-07-09	308,845	02-05
			J	Mainichi	01-07-09	-	02-05
	Task Data	QA	CtCs JE	NTCIR-8 ACLIA QA data	-	-	-
		IR	CtCs JE	NTCIR-8 ACLIA IR data	-	-	-
	Document Data for system training purposes	news articles	Ct	CIRB011(China Times, Commercial Times, China Times Express, Central Daily News, China Daily News)	01-07-09	132,173	98-99
				CIRB020( United Daily News, Economic Daily News, Min Sheng Daily, United Evening News, Star News)	01-07-09	249,508	98-99
				CIRB040r( United Daily News, United Express, Ming Hseng News, Economic Daily News)	01-07-09	901,446	00-01
			Cs	Lianhe Zaobao	01-07-09	249,287	98-01
				Xinhua Chinese**a	01-07-09	295,875
			J	Mainichi	01-07-09	419,759	98-01
	Task Data for system training purposes	QA	CJE	NTCIR-5/6 CLQA data	01-07-09	-	-
			J	NTCIR-3/4/5/6 QA data	01-07-09
		IR	CtK JE	NTCIR-3/4/5/6 CLIR data	01-07-09
		QA/ IR	CtCs JE	NTCIR-7 ACLIA CCLQA/IR4QA data	01-07-09	-	-
GeoTime	Document Data	news articles	J	Mainichi	01-07-09	-	02-05
			E	New York Times *B **a	01-07-09	315,417	02-05
	Task Data	IR	JE	-	-	-	-
MOAT	Document Data	news articles	J	Mainichi	01-07-09	-	02-05
			E	New York Times *B **a	01-07-09	315,417	02-05
			Ct	UDN2002-2005 (United Daily News, United Express, Ming Hseng News, Economic Daily News, Star News)	01-07-09	1,663,517	02-05
			Cs	Xinhua Chinese**a	01-07-09	308,845	02-05
	Task Data	IE/ analysis	J	NTCIR-8MOAT Japanese Annotation Data (Mainichi 2002-2005)	01-10-09	-	02-05
			E	NTCIR-8MOAT English Annotation Data (New York Times 2002-2005)**a	01-10-09	-	02-05
			Ct	NTCIR-8MOAT Chinese (traditional) Annotation Data (UDN2002-2005)	01-10-09	-	02-05
			Cs	NTCIR-8MOAT Chinese (simplified) Annotation Data (Xinhua Chinese 2002-2005)**a	01-10-09	-	02-05
	Task Data for system training purposes	IE/ analysis	J	NTCIR-6 OAT JapaneseAnnotation Data:Part A (Mainichi 1998-2001)	01-07-09	490	98-01
							98-01
				NTCIR-7MOAT Japanese Annotation Data (Mainichi 1998-2001)	01-07-09	287	98-01
			E	NTCIR-6 OAT English Annotation Data:Part A (Mainichi Daily 1998-2001, Korea Times 2000-2001, Hong Kong Standard 1998-1999)	01-07-09	439	98-01
							98-01
				NTCIR-6 OAT English Annotation Data:Part B (Xinhua 1998-2001) **a	01-07-09		98-01
				NTCIR-7MOAT English Annotation Data:Part A (Mainichi Daily 1998-2001, Korea Times 2000-2001, Hong Kong Standard 1998-1999, Straits Times 98-01)	01-07-09	167	98-01
				NTCIR-7MOAT English Annotation Data:Part B (Xinhua English 98-01)**a	01-07-09		98-01
			Ct	NTCIR-6 OAT Chinese(traditional) Annotation Data (CIRB020 1998-1999, CIRB040 2000-2001)	01-07-09	843	98-01
				NTCIR-7MOAT Chinese (traditional) Annotation Data (CIRB020 1998-1999, CIRB040 2000-2001	01-07-09	246	98-01
			Cs	NTCIR-7MOAT Chinese (simplified) Annotation Data: Part A (Lianhe Zaobao 98-01)	01-07-09	271	98-01
				NTCIR-7MOAT Chinese (simplified) Annotation Data: Part B (Xinhua Chinese 98-01)**a	01-07-09		98-01
Patent Mining	Document Data	patent full	J	Publication of unexamined patent applications	01-07-09	3,496,252 ( 94.5GB)	93-02
		patent abstract	E	Patent Abstracts of Japan (PAJ)	01-07-09	3,496,252 (ca.5GB)	93-02
		patent full	E	Patent grant data published from USPTO	01-07-09	981,948	93-02
		sci. abstract	JE	NTCIR-1	01-07-09	861,481	88-97
		sci. abstract	JE	NTCIR-2	01-07-09	535,226	86-99 *A
	Task Data	Mining	JE	NTCIR-8 Patent Mining Task Data: Research papers Classification susbtask and Technical Trend Map Subtask	01-12-09	-	-
Patent Translation	Document Data	patent full	J	Publication of unexamined patent applications	01-07-09	-	93-07
		patent full	E	Patent grant data published from USPTO	01-07-09	-	93-07
	Task Data	MT	JE	NTCIR-8 Patent Translation Task Data: Translation subtask, Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval subtask and Evaluation subtask	-	-	-

*A: gakkai subfiles:1997-1999, kaken subfiles: 1986-1997
*B: There is a smaller amount of documents from Feb. 2003 to May 2004 and there is no data from June 2004.

1: For the details of the task data (topics and relevance judgments, questions and answers, summaries, etc), please visit the webpages of each task.

2: For the data with **, the procedure to obtain the data is specified.
**a: The data will be delivered from LDC for the Workshop participants who submit an additional user agreement form to LDC.

3: Please notice that the document collections shall be used for the purpose of accomplishing tasks set out in the NTCIR Workshop and for the purpose of research related to the tasks. The documents can not be used for "information purpose".

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