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Organization of NTCIR-8 Workshop
Organizing Committee
General Chair
Noriko Kando
Poster Chair
Masaharu Yoshioka
Publicity Chair
Masaharu Yoshioka
Publications Chair
Kazuaki Kishida
Sponsor Chair
Tsuneaki Kato
Travel Support Chair
Hideo Joho

National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Hokkaido University, Japan
Hokkaido University, Japan
Keio University, JapanThe University of Tokyo, Japan
University of Tsukuba, Japan

Program Committee(Names in alphabetical order of family names)

Program Chair
Noriko Kando

National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Hsin-Hsi ChenAtsushi Fujii
Fredric C. GeyTatsunori Mori
Sung Hyon Myaeng
Douglas Oard
Tetsuya Sakai
Mark Sanderson
Ellen Voorhees

National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Yokohama National University, JapanKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
University of Maryland, USA
Microsoft Research Asia, China
University of Sheffield, UK
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

Research Planning and Coordinating Committee(Names in alphabetical order of family names)

Chair
Noriko Kando

National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Atsushi Fujii
Fredric C. Gey
Daisuke Ishikawa
Teruko Mitamura
Tatsunori Mori
Hidetsugu Nanba
Tetsuya Sakai
Yohei SekiKoichi Takeda

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
University of California, Berkeley, USA
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Yokohama National University, Japan
Hiroshima City University, Japan
Microsoft Research Asia, China
Toyohashi University of Technology Japan
IBM, Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan― 476 ―

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Task Planning and Organizing Committee(Names in alphabetical order of family names)*: Task Leader

Advanced Cross-Lingual Information Access (ACLIA) :*Teruko Mitamura
Hideki ShimaCarnegie Mellon University, USA
Carnegie Mellon University, USA-Complex Cross-Lingual Question Answering Task (CCLQA):*Teruko Mitamura
Cheng-Wei Lee
Chin-Yew Lin
Chuan-Jie Lin
Tatsunori Mori
Ruihua Song
Hideki Shima
Koichi Takeda

Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Microsoft Research Asia, China
National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Yokohama National University, Japan
Microsoft Research Asia, China
Carnegie Mellon University, USAIBM, Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan-Information Retrieval for Question Answering Task (IR4QA):*Tetsuya Sakai
Noriko Kando
Cheng-Wei Lee
Chuan-Jie Lin
Teruko Mitamura
Hideki Shima
Ruihua SongMicrosoft Research Asia, China
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Microsoft Research Asia, China-Advisors:
Kuang-hua Chen
Eric Nyberg

National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Geotemporal Information Retrieval Task (GeoTime):* Fredric Gay
Noriko Kando
Ray R. Larson

University of California, Berkeley, USA
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Multilingual Opinion Analysis Task (MOAT):*Yohei Seki
Hsin-Hsi Chen+David Kirk Evans
Noriko KandoLun-Wei Ku
Le SunToyohashi University of Technology Japan
National Taiwan University, TaiwanAmazon Japan K.K., Japan
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Chinese Academy of Science, China+He worked for NTCIR-8 MOAT until September, 2009.

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Patent Mining Task (PATMN):*Hidetsugu Nanba
Atsushi Fujii
Taiichi Hashimoto

Hiroshima City University, JapanTokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology, JapanTokyo Institute of Technology/Hitachi Ltd, Japan

Makoto Iwayama

Patent Translation Task (PATMT):*Atsushi Fujii
Hiroshi Echizen-ya
Terumasa Ehara
Sayori Shimohata
Masao Utiyama

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Hokkai-Gakuen Univ., Japan
Yamanashi Eiwa College, JapanOki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Japan
National Institute of Information and Communication Technology,Japan
University of Tsukuba, Japan
University of Tsukuba, Japan

Takehito Utsuro
Mikio Yamamoto

Community QA Pilot Task (CQA):*Daisuke Ishikawa
Noriko Kando
Tetsuya Sakai

National Institute of Informatics, Japan
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Microsoft Research Asia, China-Advisors:
Kazuko Kuriyama
Yohei Seki

Shirayuri College, Japan

Toyohashi University of Technology Japan

Travel Support Committee(Names in alphabetical order of family names)

Travel Support Chair
Hideo JohoUniversity of Tsukuba, Japan

Sumio Kakinuma
Noriko Kando
Tsuneaki Kato
Yutaka Sasaki

National Institute of Informatics, Japan
National Institute of Informatics, JapanTokyo University, Japan
Toyota Technological Institute, Japan

Secretariat(Names in alphabetical order of family names)
Ruiko Homma
Fumiko Koiwahara
Miho Sugimoto

National Institute of Informatics, Japan
National Institute of Informatics, Japan
National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Webmaster
Bernard Brosseau-Villeneuve

Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Japan― 478 ―