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NTCIR-8 Meeting
Call for Participation
[Japanese]
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
NTCIR-8 Workshop Meeting
on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies:
IR, QA and Cross-lingual Information Access
June 15-18, 2010
NII, Tokyo, Japan
@@ http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/
EVIA 2010 http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/index.html
Program:
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/program-en.html
Online registration is available at:
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/registration_ws8.html
** Early Registration is extended to June 4th **
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The NTCIR-8 Workshop Meeting and the 3rd International Workshop on Evaluating
Information Access (EVIA 2010) will be held on June 15-18, 2010, at NII
in Tokyo, Japan. Anybody who is interested in research areas related to
NTCIR, such as Information Retrieval, Question Answering, Information Extraction,
Text Mining and Data Engineering, Machine Translation, is welcome to attend
and join the discussion.
For the previous NTCIR Workshop Meeting which was held on Dec.16-18, 2008,
more than 200 attendees from 17 different countries contributed to discussion
and exchanging the experiences with one another. Among them about half
were researchers participated in the "task(s) -- shared experiment
task(s)" set by NTCIR, and others contributed to fruitful discussion.
At NTCIR-8 Meeting, active information access (IA) researchers will get
together again and share their experiences, and discuss the future plan
and the roadmap for leveraging the IA research.
NTCIR-8 has hosted the following six tasks.
* Complex Cross-Lingual Question Answering (CCLQA)
* Geographic and Temporal Search (GeoTime)
* Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA)
* Multilingual Opinion Analysis (MOAT)
* Patent Mining (PATMN)
* Patent Translation (PATMT)
* Community Question Answering (Pilot Task) (CQA)
The overview and system papers will be presented at the Meeting on DAY
2-4 (June 16-18). The first day of the Meeting (June 15) will be an "Introduction
to NTCIR" for new comers, and EVIA 2010 (the Third International Workshop
on Evaluating Information Access).
Moreover we fortunately could host the exciting invited talks:
* June 16, 10:30-11:30
"Building Watson: A Grand Challenge in Automatic NL Question
Answering"
by David A. Ferrucci and Koichi Takeda* (IBM Research)
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/program-long-en.html#deepqa
* June 15, 13:00-13:50
"Microsoft's Bing and User Behavior Evaluation"
by John Nave (Principal Development Manager, Search Technology
Center, Microsoft)
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/program-long-en.html#bing
* June 17, 9:15-10:00: Reports from other evaluations
+ "CLEF, CLEF 2010, and PROMISEs: Perspectives for the Cross-Language
Evaluation Forum"
by Nicola Ferro (the University of Padua, Italy)
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/program-long-en.html#clef
+ "ClueWeb09 and TREC Diversity"
by Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/program-long-en.html#trec
The first talk is about an exciting grand challenge project to build a
QA system which can understand complex questions and answer with enough
precision and speed to compete on America's favorite quiz show, Jeopardy!.
About the project: http://www.ibm.com/deepqa
The second talk is about Microsoft's Bing which takes different approach
to web search. The talk includes the vision and design principles and insights
from research on user behaviors.
The third talk is about CLEF, which is a real community-based IR evaluation
campaign, and its achievements and the future plan in the new era. The
fourth talk is on selected topics from TREC -- about 100TB Web test Collection
and evaluation of Web search focusing on diversity. (A task on diversity
in different approach will be also presented for NTCIR-9. )
In addition to the above, there are poster/demo presentations through June
16 to 18, to introduce the major Japanese projects creating and/or distributing
the languages resources usable for information access technology research;
* Language Grid - Connecting World's Language Services to Support Intercultural
Collaboration (Language Grid)
* Language Resource Association (GSK)
* Advanced Language Information Forum (ALAGIN)
* Design, Compilation, and Preliminary Analyses of Balanced
Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (NIJL-BCCWJ)
* Informatics Research Data Repository, NII (NII-IDR)
* Speech Resources Consortium, NII (NII-SRC)
* NTCIR
We are especially grateful the following organizations to provide generous
sponsorship for travel support awards: Google, Inc., IBM Japan, Ltd., IR-ALT,
Inc., Japan Patent Information OrganizationiJapioj, The Mainichi Newspapers,
Microsoft Research, National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT), NTT Resonant Inc., Rakuten,Inc., Ricoh Company, Ltd.
(in the alphabetical order of the organization names). There will be posters
or booths for some of them.
Online registration is available at:
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/meeting/registration_ws8.html
Early Registration with less expensive fee is available until June 4th.
Please don't miss the opportunity!
The full registration fee for non-students includes one copy of the proceedings
(CD-ROM and printed abstract book), three lunches, three light refreshments
for breakfast, and coffee breaks.
If you are a student, the meeting is free of charge!!! Three light refreshments
for breakfast and coffee breaks will be served.
Students can also purchase the proceedings (CD-ROM and printed abstract
book) and lunch/banquet tickets with a reasonable price.
Online proceedings will be available at the NTCIR Web site during and after
the Workshop Meeting.
Looking forward to seeing you in Tokyo.
Inquiry
NTCIR Project Office:
ntc-secretariat
Last updated: June 01, 2010
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