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user agreement
Research Purpose Use of NTCIR Test Collections

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The below are the test collections that have been constructed and used for the NTCIR. They are usable only for the research purpose use.
The documents collections included in the test collections were provided to NII for used in NTCIR free of charge or for a fee. The providers of the document data kindly understand the importance of the test collection in the research on information access technologies and then granted the use of the data for research purpose. Please remember that the document data in the NTCIR test collections is copyrighted and has commercial value as data. It is important for our continued reliable and good relationship with the data producers/providers that we researchers must behave as a reliable partners and use the data only for research purpose under the user agreement and use them carefully not to violate any rights for them .

To obtain the NTCIR Collection

The followings are the procedures to obtain the test collections. The test collections and data available from NII are free of charge.
Address
NTCIR Project (Rm.1309)
National Institute of Informatics
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
102-8430, JAPAN

PHONE: +81-3-4212-2750
FAX: +81-3-4212-2751
Email: ntc-secretariat
Mailing List
The release of the new test collections and correction information shall be announced through the ntcir@nii.ac.jp Mailing list

(For The Use of the NII Open Laboratory, please consult "NII Open Laboratory".)

The Data Description and User Agreement Forms for the NTCIR Workshop participants are here.)



All kind of the data for Research Purpose Use

o NTCIR-1 o NTCIR-2 o NTCIR-3


o NTCIR-4 [ Test Collection list ]


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2004-07-14
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