Call for Participation

The 11th NTCIR Conference
Evaluation of Information Access Technologies

andThe 6 International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2014)
thDecember 9-12, 2014
National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
National Institute of Informatics (NII) | NTCIR Organizing Committee

http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-11/conference.html【Official language】 English

The Eleventh NTCIR Conference (NTCIR-11) and the Sixth International Workshop on Evaluating
Information Access (EVIA 2014) will be held on December 9-12, 2014, at NII in Tokyo, Japan.
NTCIR-11 Conference and EVIA 2014 are open event and anybody is welcome. For the previous conference, we had atotal of 243 attendees from 20 different countries contributed to discussion. Anyone who is interested in research areas related toNTCIR, such as Information Retrieval, Question Answering, Information Extraction, Text Mining and Data Engineering is welcome toattend and join the discussion. We are especially fortunate to have an distinguished Keynote speaker Susan T. Dumais, MicrosoftResearch. Please come and join the discussion!

Tasks NTCIR-11 has hosted the following six core tasks and three pilot tasks.
・ IMine mining and satisfying different user intents for aquery
・ MATH mathematical content access based on bothnatural language text and mathematical expression
・ MedNLP Medical Natural Language Processing
・ MobileClick satisfying a user’s need by the first output
・ RITE-VAL Recognizing Inference in Text

・ SpokenQuery&Doc

Retrieval
forSpokenDocuments
・ QA Lab Question Answering for Entrance Exam・ Temporalia Document access related temporal
information
・ RecipeSearch Cooking Recipe document search

Schedule

DAY 1 (Tuesday, 9th December, 2014)The 6th International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2014)
DAY 2-4 (10-12th December, 2014) NTCIR- 11 Conference

KeynoteDAY 2 (AM, Wednesday, 10th December, 2014) Susan T. Dumais (Microsoft Research) “Personalized Search: Potential and Pitfalls”

Inquiry
NTCIR-11 Conference Committee

ntc11-oc@nii.ac.jp| NTCIR Conference Office ntc11mtg-sec@nii.ac.jp

Previous NTCIR Conference

Registration
Online Registration
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-11/participation.html
Online Registration is going to be available soon.
・Payment for Early and Online Registration is by Credit Card.
・Only in the case that the payment by a credit card is not acceptable by your organization, the bank transfer is available.
Please consult the NTCIR Conference Office (ntc11mtg-sec@nii.ac.jp).
On-site registration is available. But please notice that the payment shall be in cash only.

Fee
Online Registration
Early
Regular(Until Nov. 21)(From Nov. 22 to Nov. 30)

On-site(After Dec.1)
Full (non-students)
JPY 35,000
JPY 40,000
JPY 45,000
Student
JPY 5,000
JPY 6,000
JPY 6,000
EVIA Only
JPY 5,000
JPY 5,000
JPY 5,000
・ “Full” includes access to all the sessions in the conference (both EVIA and NTCIR-11 Conference), access toonline proceedings, a banquet(Dec.10), three lunches(Dec. 10-12), coffee and three morning light refreshment.
・ “Student” includes access to all the sessions in the conference (both EVIA and NTCIR-11 Conference), access toonline proceedings, three lunches (Dec.10-12), coffee and three morning light refreshment. Please notice thatbanquet is not included. You can purchase a banquet ticket for student.
・ “EVIA Only” includes access to the sessions for EVIA (Dec.9), access to online proceedings and coffee.
・ For the students from the cordinate organizations, special invitation is available. It is free of charge to join theconference and you can access to the proceedings, but lunch and banquet are not included. Students include theinternship students who are currently working at the organizations.
・ Online proceedings will be available for free from Dec. 9, 2014. It is also available to access at the conference venue
by wireless LAN.

Registration Category*Proceedings will be available only online and no CD-ROM will be provided this year.
**Please see 'List of Cordinate Organizations’ on the website: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-11/participation.html

Additional Ticket Category
Student Banquet
Accompanying person Lunch (per day)
Accompanying person Banquet

Fee
JPY 6,000
JPY 1,800
JPY 8,000

Cancellation Policy
In case of cancellation, written notification should be sent to the Registration Office (ntcir11_reg@ics-inc.co.jp)
by Nov. 22. Refunds will be made according to the following guidelines.
・ Until Nov. 22, 2014: 100% refund of registration fees
・ From Nov. 23, 2014: No refundStudent ID

Student registration requires a valid student ID. Please bring your student ID with you to the conference venue.
Without student ID, you may be requested to re-register as "full registration".

NTCIR-11 Conference Participant(Alphabetical Order, 100

Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Begum Rokeya Univ., , Rangpur, Bangladesh
Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Capital Normal Univ., China
Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
Chaoyang Univ. of Technology, Taiwan
CNGL Centre for Global Intelligent Content, Ireland
Delft Univ. of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information andCommunication Technology, India
Dublin City Univ., Ireland
Fujitsu Research & Development Center Co., LTD., China (2Groups)
Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology atShenzhen, China
Hunan Univ. of Science and Technology, China
INESC-ID / IST, Portugal
Information Retrieval Lab. Shandong Univ., China
Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan
ISI Kolkata, India
Jacobs Univ. Bremen, Gernamny
Masaryk Univ., Brno Czech Republic
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Gernamny
Ming-Chuan Univ., Taiwan
Nanjing Univ., China
National Central Univ., Taiwan
National Kaohsiung Univ. of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
National Taiwan Ocean Univ., Taiwan
National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
Natural language processing lab at Herbin Institute ofTechnology, China
National Chengchi Univ., Taiwan
Northwest Normal Univ., China
Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway
Peking Univ., China
Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (POSTECH),Korea (2 Groups)
Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Samsung Electronics, Korea
Taipei Tech, Taiwan
Tamkang Univ., Taiwan
Technical Univ. of Valencia, Spain
The Univ. of Manchester, UK
Tsinghua Univ., China
Technische Univ. Braunschweig, Germany
Univ. Of California, Berkeley, USA
Univ. of Caen, FranceUniv. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Univ. of Delaware, USA
Univ. of Glasgow, UKGroups)

List

Univ. of Montreal, Canada
Univ. of Tehran, United Arab Emirates(UAE)
Univ. of Wollongong, Dubai, United Arab Emirates(UAE)
Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
VNU Univ. of Engineering and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Wuhan Univ., China
Wuhan Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Yuan Ze Univ., Taiwan

Daido Univ., Japan
Doshisha Univ., Japan
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. , Japan
Fukuoka Univ. , Japan
Gifu Univ. , Japan
Gunma Univ. , Japan
Hiroshima City Univ. , Japan
Hitachi, Ltd. , Japan
Hokkaido Univ. , Japan (2 Groups)
Hokkai-Gakuen Univ., JapanIwate Prefectural Univ., Japan
JAIST, Japan
Keio Univ., Japan
Kitami Institute of Technology , Japan
Kogakuin Univ., Japan
Kyoto Sangyo Univ., Japan
Kyoto Univ., Japan (3 Groups)
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Nagoya Univ., Japan (2 Groups)
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
National Institute of Informatics, Japan (3 Groups)
National Institute of Public Health , Japan
Nihon Unisys, Ltd, Japan (2 Groups)
NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group,Japan
Okayama Pref. Univ., Japan (2 Groups)
Osaka Kyoiku Univ., Japan
Otaru Univ. of Commerce, Japan
Ryukoku Univ., Japan
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Shizuoka Univ., Japan (2 Groups)
The Univ. of Tokushima, Japan (2 Groups)
The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan (2 Groups)
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Toyohashi Univ. of Technology, Japan (4 Groups)
Univ. of Hyogo, Japan
Univ. of Yamanashi, Japan
Utsunomiya Kyowa Univ., Japan
Yasuda Women's College, Japan
Yokohama National Univ., JapanNTCIR-11 Conference Organizers (Alphabetical Order of the names)
NTCIR-11 General Chairs
Noriko Kando (NII), Tsuneaki Kato (The Univ. of Tokyo), Douglas W. Oard (Univ. Of Maryland, USA ), Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda Univ.),Mark Sanderson(RMIT, Australia)

NTCIR-11 Conference Organizing Committee
Noriko Kando (NII, Chair), Tsuneaki Kato (The Univ. of Tokyo), Hideo Joho (Univ. of Tsukuba), Kazuaki Kishida (Keio Univ.)[NTCIR Project Office] Mariko Okada, Kazuko Matsuo

NTCIR-11 Program Committee
Chairs: Hideo Joho (Univ. of Tsukuba), Kazuaki Kishida (Keio Univ.)
Members: Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Charles L.A. Clarke (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada), Kalervo Järvelin (Univ. of Tampere, Finland),

Hideo Joho (Univ. of Tsukuba), Gareth Jones (Dublin City Univ., Ireland), Kazuaki Kishida (Keio Univ.) Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH, SouthKorea), Maarten de Rijke (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK), Ian Soboroff (NIST,USA)

NTCIR-11 Research and Planning Committee ( The asterisks(*) refer to the task leaders.)- Core Tasks 1. Search Intent and Task Mining (IMine) Task OrganizersZhicheng Dou (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Makoto P. Kato (Kyoto Univ.), Yiqun Liu*(Tsinghua Univ. , China), Hiroaki Ohshima (Kyoto Univ.),
Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Takehiro Yamamoto (Kyoto Univ.), Min Zhang (Tsinghua Univ. ,China), Ke Zhou (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK)2. Mathematical Information Access (Math) Task Organizers
Akiko Aizawa*(NII), Michael Kohlhase (Jacobs Univ. Bremen, Germany), Iadh Ounis (Univ. of Glasgow, UK)
3. Medical Natural Language Processing (MedNLP) Task Organizers
Eiji Aramaki*(Kyoto Univ.), Yoshinobu Kano (Shizuoka Univ. / JST PRESTO), Mizuki Morita (The Univ. of Tokyo), Tomoko Ohkuma (Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.)
4. Mobile Information Access (MobileClick) Task Organizers
Matthew Ekstrand-Abueg (Northeastern Univ., USA), Mayu Iwata (KDDI Corp.), Makoto P. Kato*(Kyoto Univ.), Virgil Pavlu (Northeastern Univ., USA),
Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda Univ.), Takehiro Yamamoto (Kyoto Univ.)
5. Recognizing Inference in TExt and Validation（RITE-VAL）Task Organizers
Chuan-Jie Lin (National Taiwan Ocean Univ., Taiwan), Suguru Matsuyoshi*(Univ.of Yamanashi), Teruko Mitamura (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA),
Yusuke Miyao (NII), Tomohide Shibata (Kyoto Univ.), Cheng-Wei Shih (Academia Sinica,Taiwan), Yotaro Watanabe (NEC Corp.)
6. Spoken Document Retrieval （SpokenDoc）Task Organizers
Tomoyosi Akiba*(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech), Gareth Jones (Dublin City Univ., Irland), Hiroaki Nanjo (Ryukoku Univ.), Hiromitsu Nishizaki (Univ. of Yamanashi)- Pilot Tasks 7. QA Lab for Entrance Exam (QALab) Task Organizers
Madoka Ishioroshi (NII), Kelly Itakura (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada), Noriko Kando* (NII), Yoshinobu Kano (Shizuoka Univ. / JST PRESTO),
Teruko Mitamura (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA), Kotaro Sakamoto (Yokohama National Univ.), Hideyuki Shibuki (Yokohama National Univ.)
8. Temporal Information Access (Temporalia) Task Organizers
Roi Blanco (Yahoo Labs, Barcelona, Spain), Adam Jatowt (Kyoto Univ.), Hideo Joho* (Univ. of Tsukuba), Hajime Naka (Univ. of Tsukuba)
9. Cooking Recipe Search (RecipeSearch) Task Organizers
Fernando Diaz (Microsoft, USA), Gregory Druck (Yummly, USA), Nobu Tsukada (Kagawa Nutrition Univ.), Michiko Yasukawa* (Gunma Univ.)

EVIA 2014 Program Committee

Chairs： Stefano Mizzaro (Univ. of Udine, Italy), Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Members: Nicholas Belkin (Rutgers Univ., USA), Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Charles L. A. Clarke (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada),

Georges Dupret (Yahoo Labs, Chile), Atsushi Fujii (Tokyo Institute of Tech.), Hideo Joho (Univ. of Tsukuba), Gareth Jones (Dublin City Univ.,Ireland), Kazuaki Kishida (Keio Univ.), Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua Univ., China), Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda Univ.), Falk Scholer (RMIT Univ., Australia),
Ian Soboroff (NIST, USA), Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia, China), Paul Thomas (CSIRO, Australia), Emine Yilmaz (Univ.College London,UK)

If you are interested in being a sponsor of NTCIR-11 Conference, please contact to：ntc11-sponsor@nii.ac.jp