NTCIR-8 Meeting and Project Evaluation Form

- Please take a few minutes to fill out the following questionnaire. It will help the future NTCIR workshops. 
- Please answer in English or Japanese and send it by e-mail to ntc-secretariat at nii.ac.jp. 

=== Questions for all participants (from Q1 to Q14) ===
Q1. How did you hear about NTCIR? 
a. NTCIR Website       
b. Mailing list [name:                                                         
c. Conference [name:                                     
d. Journal [name:                                      
e. Other [please specify:                                                       

Q2. Meeting schedule (4 days including Tutorial and EVIA workshop) 
a. Good       
b. Too long       
c. Too short 
Comments: 


Q3. Venue (e.g., Layout of rooms) 
a. Good       
b. Can be improved (How:                                                      
Comments: 


Q4. Time table 
a. Good       
b. Too long       
c. Too short 
Comments: 

 
Q5. Time schedule for oral/poster presentations 
a. Good       
b. Too long       
c. Too short 
Comments: 
 

Q6. Tutorials 
a. Good       
b. Can be improved (How:                                         
c. Not participate 
Comments: 


Q7. EVIA: The Third International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access 
a. Good       
b. Can be improved (How:                                        
c. I did not participate 
Comments: 


Q8. Invited talks 
a. Good       
b. Can be improved (How:   
Comments (including your recommending speakers for the next meeting) 


Q9. Equipments for presentations 
a. Good       
b. Can be improved (How: 
Comments: 


Q10. Next NTCIR-9 Schedule  
A) Cycle:    
a. one and a half years    
b. one year    
c. two years    
d. others (   
                             
B) Date:     
a. December 2011    
b. January 2012    
c. others (      
                                               )
C) Location:  
a. NII, Tokyo    
b. Elsewhere (please specify:  


Q11. Would you care to be called upon to serve on some volunteer positions 
for NTCIR, such as committee members, task organizers, advisers, and guest 
speakers?
a. Yes       
b. No

If yes, please give us your name, affiliation and e-mail address
Name:
Affiliation:
E-mail address: 
Comments: 


Q12.Would you care to be called upon as a sponsor or advertiser for NTCIR?
a. Yes       
b. No

If yes, please give us your name, affiliation and e-mail address
Name:
Affiliation:
E-mail address: 
Comments: 


Q13. General comments 
 

Q14.Please tell us about your relationship to the NTCIR-8 workshop 
You are:
a. A Registered NTCIR-8 task participant that submitted results�@
b. A Registered NTCIR-8 task participant that did not submit results
(Why not?                                                                      
c. A Past Task participant that did not participate in NTCIR-8
 (Why not?   
d. never participated in NTCIR evaluation before 
 (Why not?   
e. A NTCIR test collection user
f. NTCIR-8 Meeting Attendee
g. Other (Please describe:                                                                                  


=== Questions for task participants (from Q15 to Q22) ===
Please give your comments on the process of the NTCIR Project, not only 
on the meeting.

Q15 How did you hear about  the Call for Participation to the task(s)? 
a. NTCIR Website       
b. Mailing list [name: 
c. Conference [name:                                    
d. Journal [name:                                    
e. Other [please specify:       


�¦From Q16 to Q21, please choose among your task(s). If you choose �gCan be improved,�h please fill out the comments. 

Q16 Data Distribution  
a. Good (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA)   
b. Can be improved (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA) 
Comments:

 
Q17. Task design 
a. Good (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA)   
b. Can be improved (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA) 
Comments:


Q18. Announcement 
a. Good (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA)   
b. Can be improved (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA) 
Comments:


Q19. Evaluation method(s) 
a. Good (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA)   
b. Can be improved (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA) 
Comments:
 

Q20. Task schedule 
a. Good (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA)   
b. Can be improved (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA) 
Comments:


Q21. Sharing raw submission data (submission results from other participants) 
in NTCIR-8 
a. Good (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA)   
b. Can be improved (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA) 
Comments:


Q22. Did you use raw submission data for post submission analysis? 
a. Yes (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA)    
b. No (CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA) 
c. Plan to use in future work 
(CCLQA, IR4QA, GEOTIME, MOAT, PATMN, PATMT, CQA) 


Q23. Travel support 
a. Good       
b. Can be improved (How:    
         

Q24. Task proposal schedule for NTCIR-8 
a. Good       
b. Can be improved (How:    
Comments: 
 

Q25. Other comments (If you can afford, please write up your name and 
contact address here.) 

Thank you very much.