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CallForfor Participation
Participation
Call

The 12th NTCIR Conferenceand EVIA 2016
and EVIA 2016

(The 7th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access)June 7-10, 2016
National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-12/conference.html
Organised by National Institute of Informatics (NII)

The twelfth NTCIR Conference (NTCIR-12) and the Seventh International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2016) will be held June 7-10, 2016,
at NII in Tokyo, Japan. NTCIR-12 and EVIA 2016 are open to everyone. In the previous round of this event (NTCIR-11/EVIA 2014), we had about 200 attendees from about 20
countries and regions. If you are interested in information access research areas including,but not limited to, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Question Answering, Summarisation, Speech and Multimedia, please attend the event and join our discussions.
NTCIR-12 keynote speakers: Professor Alistair Moffat, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Schedule
DAY 1 (Tuesday, 7th June, 2016):

EVIA 2016

EVIA 2016 Program Co-Chairs:
NTCIR-12 Program Co-Chairs:

DAY 2-4 (8-10th June, 2016):

NTCIR-12 ConferenceCharles Clarke, Emine YilmazKazuaki Kishida , Makoto P. Kato

NTCIR-12 General Co-Chairs: Noriko Kando, Tetsuya Sakai, Mark Sanderson
Contact (secretariat) : ntc-mtg-sec@nii.ac.jp

CALL FOR PAPERS

EVIA 2016
The 7th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Accessa Satellite Workshop of the NTCIR-12 Conference

June 7, 2016, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/evia2016/
Submission due: April 4th, 2016
We invite submissions for the Seventh International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access(EVIA 2016) which will be held in conjunction with NTCIR 12 in Tokyo, Japan, on June 7, 2016.
Information Access technologies provide the interface between human information needs anddigital information resources. The reliable evaluation of these technologies has been recognized fordecades as central to the advancement of the field. As information retrieval technologies become
more pervasive, the forms of retrieval more diverse, and retrieval tools richer, the importance ofeffective, efficient, and innovative evaluation grows as well.
We invite both short papers (2-4 pages) and long papers (8-10 pages) addressing one or more of
the following topics, as well as any other topic related to the evaluation of information access:-Test collection formation, evaluation metrics, and evaluation environments
Statistical issues in retrieval evaluation
User studies and the evaluation of human-computer interaction in information retrieval(HCIR)
Evaluation methods for multilingual, multimedia, or mobile information access
Novel information access tasks and their evaluation
Evaluation and assessment using implicit user feedback, crowdsourcing, living labs, orinferential methods
Evaluation issues in industrial and enterprise retrieval systems

Submissions must be in English, in PDF format, and must use standard ACM SIGIR templates(http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) which are available for both LaTeX andWord from the ACM website. Papers must report work that is not previously published, notaccepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. Submissions should
not contain any author identification and should be submitted electronically via the conference
submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evia2016).

IMPORTANT DATESApril 4, 2016 submissions deadline
April 18, 2016 Notifications to authors
May 1, 2016Camera ready due
June 7, 2016EVIA 2016@NII, Tokyo, Japan
June 8-10, 2016 TCIR-12@NII, Tokyo, Japan