http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-11/

The 11th NTCIR Conference
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research

Call for Participation to the NTCIR-11 Kick-Off Event
2nd Septemper (Mon), 2013, 13:30- （English Session） 15:15- （Japanese Session）
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-11/kickoff.html

Ever wondered how to advance your Information Access technologies?
For developing Information Access technologies based on techniques of Information Retrieval, Natural
Language Processing or Database Management, it is indispensable to evaluate them experimentally byusing test collections constructed under collaborations of many researchers. Over the 15 years, NTCIR
Workshops have been formulating the infrastructure for the evaluation, and contributing to development of
the Information Access technologies. A total of 52 "evaluation tasks" have been organized, attracting over730 participant research groups worldwide so far. Furthermore, over 2,500 research groups have signed up
to use the NTCIR test collections in their research. Consequently, NTCIR has been the major forum forresearchers to intensively discuss the evaluation methodology of emerging information access technologies.
As some details have been finalized for NTCIR-11, we would like to hold an event to introduce theNTCIR-11 and exciting new evaluation tasks. Are you a young researcher in Information Access area,
faculty members who have (many) students to supervise, researchers in industry, or simply interested inInformatics? Anyone is welcome for the event! Join us to share the advance of the state of the art
Information Access research and development!

*** NTCIR-11 Kick-Off Event ***- Date/Time: 2nd September (Mon), 2013 From 13:30 p.m. To 16:45 p.m.
(13:30-15:00 English Session) (15:15-16:45 Japanese Session, same as English Session)-Location: Room 2001A.2001B, 20F National Center of Science, National Institute of Informatics
http://www.nii.ac.jp/en/about/access/- Opening: 13:15- Fees: Free (No registration is required )- Twitter: http://twitter.com/ntcir* Program *- Overview of NTCIR- What’s new in NTCIR-11- Task Introduction (5min x 8tasks)- Why participate?

- How to participate- Important Dates- Q&A* NTCIR-11 Tasks *CORE TASKS:
1. IMine: Search Intent and Task Mining
2. Math-2: Mathematical Information Access
3. MedNLP-2: Medical Natural Language Processing
4. MobileClick: Mobile Information Access
5. RITE-VAL: Recognizing Inference in TExt and Validation
6. SpokenQuery&Doc: Spoken Query and Spoken Document Retrieval
PILOT TASKS:
7. QALab: QA Lab for Entrance Exam
8. Temporalia: Temporal Information Access
NTCIR-11 Program Co-Chairs：- Hideo Joho (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan), Kazuaki Kishida (Keio Univ., Japan)
NTCIR-11 General Co-Chairs：- Noriko Kando (NII, Japan), Tsuneaki Kato (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Douglas W. Oard (Univ. of Maryland, USA),
Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Mark Sanderson (RMIT Univ., Australia)
Inquiry please contact NTCIR Project Office at: ntc-secretariat@nii.ac.jp

NTCIR-10 Conference and EVIA 2013
June 18-21, 2013
National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
Keynotes

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Breakout sessions
Poster and Demo Sessions
Oral Presentations

BanquetTask Proposal Discussion