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

©2005 National Institute of Informatics
ISBN: 4-86049-033-9
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Published on December 6, 2005
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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)