NTCIR Workshop 5 Meeting

Proceedings of the Fifth NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-Lingual Information Access

Published on December 6, 2005: By National Institute of Informatics
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Edited by

Proceedings of the Fifth NTCIR Workshop Meeting:: Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Masao Takaku (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Cross Lingual Information Retrieval Task (CLIR):: Kazuaki Kishida (Surugadai University / National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri College, Japan)
Cross Lingual Question Answering Task (CLQA):: 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)
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): Keizo Oyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Masao Takaku (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University / National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Open Submission: Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan); Takashi Koga (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

NTCIR (NII-NACSIS Test Collection for IR Systems) Project is supported by:: Digital Contents Research Group A02 of Japanese MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Informatics (#13224087)