Call for Participation

The 9th NTCIR Workshop Meeting
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering andCross-Lingual Information AccessandThe 4th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access
December 6-9, 2011
National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, JapanNTCIR Organizing Committee
National Institute of Informatics (NII)

http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-9/
NTCIR is a series of evaluation workshops for Information Access Technologies like Information Retrieval (IR), Question
Answering (QA), Summarization, Text Mining, Machine Translation, etc. and providing research infrastructure forevaluation and testing, and forum of researchers. It has placed emphasis on processing of East Asian languages, butattracted international participation.
NTCIR-9 has hosted the following four core tasks and three pilot tasks under a new organization structure. Most tasks are new in
NTCIR-9 and we had one of the largest number of participated teams in the history of NTCIR!
[Core Tasks][Pilot Tasks]- GeoTime: Geo Temporal Retrieval- CrossLink: Cross-Lingual Link Discovery- INTENT: mining and satisfying different user intents fora query, + 1CLICK subtask: satisfying a user’s need by- VisEx: Interactive Visual Exploratory
the first output- RITE: Recognizing Inference in Text
- PatentMT: Translation of Patent Document- SpokenDoc: Retrieval for Spoken Documents

Colllege
Exam

NTCIR-9 Meeting and EVIA 2011 are open events and anyone who is interested in the research in information accesstechnologies are welcome. For the previous Meeting, approximately 200 attendees from 18 different countries contributed todiscussion. Please come and join the discussion!
Schedule:
DAY-1 (6th December 2011) The 4th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA2011)
DAY2-4 (7-9th December 2011) NTCIR- 9 Meeting

Keynote: Natural Language understanding, Semantic-based Information Retrieval and Knowledge Managementby Dr. Junichi Tsujii, Tsujii, Microsoft Research Asia
Invited Talk: Principles for Robust Evaluation Infrastructureby Mark Sanderson, RMIT and William Webber, University of Maryland
Reports from other evaluation campaigns
Inquiry NTCIR Project Project Leader / Program Chair : Noriko Kando kando@nii.ac.jp
NTCIR Office: ntc-secretariat＠nii.ac.jp

Past NTCIR Workshops
EVIA 2010

Poster Session

Keynote on “BuildingWatson” by David A.
Ferrucci and Koichi
Takeda (IBMResearch) at NTCIR-8(June 2010)

NTCIR-8 (2010)

Breakout Discussion

Registration
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-9/participation.html
Anyone who is interested in the researches and development in information access technologies and their evaluation
are welcome to join NTCIR-9 Meeting and EVIA regardless of participation of the evaluation task(s) set by theNTCIR-9 organizers.

Fee

Early Registration(Until October 31)

Online Registration(From November 1 toNovember 25)

On-siteFull registration (non-students)
Student (with proceedings)
Student (without proceedings)

JPY 30,000
JPY 8,0000

JPY 32,000
JPY 10,0000

JPY 35,000
JPY 10,0000

・ Payment for Early and Online Registration is by Credit Card or in Cash.
・ On-site registration is available. But please notice that the payment shall be in cash only.
・ All the registration categories include access to all the sessions in the meeting (both EVIA and NTCIR-9 Meeting), access toonline proceedings and coffee (December 6-9).

・ Full registration includes one CD-ROM of the proceedings (both EVIA 2011 and NTCIR-9 Meeting) and the evaluation results,a banquet and three lunches (December 7-9).

・ Student (with proceedings) registration includes one CD-ROM of the proceedings (both EVIA 2010 and NTCIR-9 Meeting)and the evaluation results, a banquet and three lunches (December 7-9).

・ "Student Banquet" and "Student lunch" ticket are available for students (without proceedings).
・ Pre-registration is required for these tickets.
・ Online proceedings will be available for free from December 6, 2011
Category
Student Banquet
Accompanying person Banquet
Student Lunch (per day)
Accompanying person Lunch (per day)FeeJPY 4,000
JPY 5,000
JPY1,000
JPY1,500

Cancellation Policy Student ID
In case of cancellation, written notification should be sent to the Registration Office （ntcir9_reg@ics-inc.co.jp）by November 4.
Refunds will be made according to the following guidelines.
・ Until November 4, 2011: 100% refund of registration fees
・ From November 5, 2011: No refundStudent ID
Student registration (either with or without proceedings) requires a valid student ID. Please bring your student ID with you to theconference venue. Without student ID, you may be requested to re-register as "full registration".