User Agreement Forms (for Workshop Participant)

To participate the 8th NTCIR Workshop

The user agreement form for each collection must be filled out and send them by postal mail or courier. Please download, make two copies of the user agreement forms in double-sided print. Signatures are needed on each of the agreement forms.
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Address:

NTCIR Project Office (Rm.1309)
National Institute of Informatics
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 101-8430, JAPAN

Phone: +81-3-4212-2750
FAX: +81-3-4212-2751
E-mail: ntc-secretariat
ATTN: Ms. Miho Sugimoto

Test Collections for the 8th NTCIR Workshop

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Task	Data set
ACLIA	NTCIR-8 ACLIA task participant test collection
	Xinhua Simplified Chinese Data from the LDC
GeoTime	NTCIR-8 GeoTime task participant test collection
	New York Times Data from the LDC
MOAT	NTCIR-8 MOAT task participant test collection
	Xinhua (Simplified Chinese and English) Data and New York Times Data from the LDC
Patent Mining	NTCIR-8 Patent Mining task participant test collection
Patent Translation	NTCIR-8 Patent Translation task participant test collection
	Participants who will participate in Evaluation subtask are requred to submit this additional user agreement to NII. (If you plan to participate Translation Subtask and/or Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Subtask, you do not need to send it. Topic Data for the Subtask of Evaluation (NTCIR-7 PATMT Submission Archive)
Pilot Task (Community QA)	NTCIR-8 Community QA Pilot task participant test collection
	Yahoo! Chiebukuro Data

Test Collections used in the Previous NTCIR Workshop