Organization of NTCIR-5 Workshop


Program and Organizing Committee

General Chair
Jun Adachi* (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Program Chair
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Open Submission Chair
Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Digital Poster Chair, Open Submission Co-Chair
Takashi Koga (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Publication Chair
Masao Takaku (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Task Organizers

(Names in alphabetical order of family names)

Cross Lingual Information Retrieval Task (CLIR):
Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Kazuaki Kishida (Surugadai University / National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri College, Japan)
Suk-Hoon Lee (Chungnam National University, Korea)
Sung Hyon Myaeng (Information and Communications University, Korea)
Cross Lingual Question Answering Task (CLQA):
Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Chuan-Jie Lin (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)
Yutaka Sasaki (Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan)
Patent Retrieval Task (PATENT):
Atsushi Fujii (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Makoto Iwayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hitachi Ltd., Japan)
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Question Answering Challenge 3 (QAC3):
Jun'ichi Fukumoto (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Tsuneaki Kato (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Fumito Masui (Mie University, Japan)
WEB Task (WEB):
Akiko Aizawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Koji Eguchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Haruko Ishikawa** (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Keizo Oyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Masao Takaku (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Hayato Yamana (Waseda University / National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University / National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Secretariat

(Names in alphabetical order of family names)

Ai Kuba (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Yurika Nakayama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Hatsuko Shimanouchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Shigeko Tokuda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

* Principal Investigator of "Digital Contents Research Group A02 of Japanese MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Informatics (#13224087)"

** She was working for NTCIR-5 Workshop at National Institute of Informatics until September 2005. She is currently a fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi.