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SIGMOD日本支部メーリングリスト等の一時休止について
by Atsuyuki Morishima 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

ACM SIGMOD日本支部の皆様日本データベース学会の皆様筑波大の森嶋です． ACM SIGMOD日本支部の電子業務を担当しております．さて，電子業務サーバを設置しております筑波大学北川研究室の引越しにともないまして，次の通り，電子業務を一時休止致しますのでご理解の程よろしくお願い申し上げます．日時： 4/19(月)午前8:00〜4/21(水)午前8:00 内容： SIGMOD-Japanメーリングリスト(members(a)sigmodj.xn--org)-8c4cy32p2o2b 　　　　およびWebサイト(http://www.sigmodj.org)の休止理由：研究室移転およびそれに伴う各種計算機・ネットワーク設定作業等なお，当初はWebサイトによるSIGMOD日本支部会員登録を4/12(月)より開始するとしておりましたが，この作業の関係上4/26(月)に延期いたします．それまでは，メールによる会員登録が可能です．ご不便をおかけいたしますが，よろしくお願い申し上げます． -- 森嶋厚行筑波大学知的コミュニティ基盤研究センター知の共有基盤研究部門図書館情報メディア研究科〒305-8550 つくば市春日1-2 Atsuyuki Morishima <amorishima(a)acm.org> Research Center for Knowledge Communities, University of Tsukuba 1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8550, Japan Phone: +81 29 859 1306 or 1556

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CFP: UPIMap2004, Tokyo, Spet 7-9, 2004
by Masatoshi Arikawa 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

日本データベース学会の皆様：以下、国際地図学会のワークショップの発表募集の案内を送らせていただきます。テーマは、ユビキタス社会における地図学となっております。地図とITを介した国際的な異分野コミュニケーションの場になれば良いと考えております。どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。有川正俊＠東大 ------------------ [ Call for Participation ] "Joint Workshop on Ubiquitous, Pervasive and Internet Mapping (UPIMap2004)" Tokyo, Japan, September 7 - 9, 2004 <http://ubimap.net/workshop2004/> International Cartographic Association (ICA) (http://www.icaci.org/) - Commission on Ubiquitous Mapping (http://ubimap.net/) - Commission on Maps and the Internet (http://maps.unomaha.edu/ica/) The ICA Commissions on Ubiquitous Mapping and Maps and the Internet announce a workshop in Tokyo at the beginning of September 2004. The workshop is sponsored by the Commission on Ubiquitous Mapping, the Commission on Maps and the Internet, the Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS) of University of Tokyo, the Geographic Information Systems Association and the Japan Cartographers Association. The ICA Commissions were formed in 1999 and 2003 respectively in response to the rapid growth in the use of electronic networks to distribute maps and spatial data, and rapid diffusion of new mobile devices. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together international specialists in the field of Mobile mapping, Location based Services and Internet mapping, and to disseminate information to a broader audience on new developments and major areas of research. <Important Dates> April 30, 2004 - Abstracts Due (300-1000 words) May 31, 2004 - Notification of Acceptance July 31, 2004 - Working Papers due for Paper Sessions September 7 - 9, 2004 - Workshop in Tokyo <General Information> The Workshop will focus on a variety of issues related to the distribution and utilization of maps and location based information through mobile devices and the Internet. Working papers should address the terms of reference of the commissions: [ICA Commission on Ubiquitous Mapping] This new commission deals with a "well-mapped society" where maps will be available anywhere and anytime. Today, the number of way maps and geo-spatial information are likely to be employed is very large and diverse. As the individual gains the ability to access relevant spatial information on demand, human behavior will be influenced in interesting ways. The commission concentrates more on theoretical than practical issues. Its terms of reference are: 1. To organize regional workshop including site observation to comprehend the contemporary situation of mobile, car-navigation and location based mapping 2. To clarify the similarity and difference in comparing variant systems to establish an evaluation scheme 3. To place the notion of Ubiquitous Mapping in domain of Theoretical Cartography [ICA Commission on Maps and the Internet] The Internet has increased the distribution of maps and re-defined how maps are used. This commission explores the potential of the Internet to improve the quality of maps as a form of communication. 1. Focus attention on disseminating maps and spatial data through distributed electronic networks. Product: Journal articles and web pages. 2. Examine Internet map usage and project future areas of growth. 3. Examine web map user issues to better serve user needs. 4. Promote the exchange of information about effective Internet mapping for an international audience. 5. Improve user access to maps by examining the potential of Internet map metadata. 6. Promote instruction on Internet mapping through collaboration / coordination with other ICA commissions In conjunction with the working papers, the workshop will also feature live demonstrations. <Key Words on Different Topics> ubiquitous, ubiquity, pervasive, Internet, network, tele-cartography, SVG, GML, G-XML, LBS, geo-cast, context awareness, situation, location, affordance, spatial cognition, perception, sensing, egocentric, homogeneous, map, mapping, spatial interaction, trans-coding, model, schema, visualization, symbology, generalization, virtual environment, interface, agent, voice, augmented reality, coordination, spontaneous, navigation, mobile, wearable, small personal object, IC tag, universal design, cross cultural issues, privacy, security, education, childhood development, etc. <Who Should Attend?> Anyone interested in the use of mobile devices and/or the Internet for the distribution and use of maps and spatial data: - members of academia who wish to familiarize themselves with recent research developments and who are keen to develop new perspectives; - practitioners from mapping organizations as well as software industry representatives who wish to contribute their experience with commercial Internet mapping software and explore new concepts and opportunities for software development; - students of cartography who wish to have a better understanding of the major areas of research related to the distribution of maps through the Internet. The participation of young researchers is particularly encouraged. <About the Location> The meeting will be held at the Komaba II Campus of the University of Tokyo. (http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english_2004/location.html) The campus is located near Shibuya, 20 minutes from Tokyo Central Station by train. Tokyo is the capital of Japan and one of the largest economic centers of eastern part of Asia. You can find almost everything in the city from ultra modern electronic equipments to traditional goods. (http://www.tourism.metro.tokyo.jp/english/index.html) Tokyo is situated in the central part of the Japanese archipelago. It is easy to make further trips to visit other sites of interest, such as Kyoto, for example.(http://www.jnto.go.jp/) <Cost> A workshop participation fee will be charged by the organizers - $200 for attendees, $100 for students. This includes a technical tour. There are many good hotels near the university. The price of a room is from $70 a night for a single to $100 for a twin room. <Resulting Publication> Working papers will appear on the commission's home page at <http://ubimap.net/workshop2004/>. Participants are encouraged to submit final papers to scientific journals and, depending on the number of submissions, an edited volume of papers may be published in book form. <Call for Abstracts> Participants will be selected from responses to this Call for Participation. If you wish to participate in the workshop, please submit a 300 - 1000 words abstract BY 30 APRIL 2004 to <morita(a)k.hosei.ac.jp>. The abstracts should be no longer than 1000 words in length and indicate whether you plan to submit a working paper and/or present a live demonstration. Include title, complete address information for all authors, e-mail address and abstract within an e-mail message. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by 31 MAY 2004. The selected participants will then also receive more detailed information on the particulars of the workshop and local arrangements (accommodation, etc.). <Working Papers> If you wish to participate in a paper session of the workshop, you will be asked to submit the following material BY 31 JULY 2004 to a member of the Program Committee: - a PDF document containing your working paper (4000-5000 words), including: - a BRIEF biographical sketch of the author(s) - COMPLETE address information for all authors, including fax, e-mail, and homepage, if available <Live Demonstrations> If you would like to present a live demonstration of products, provide information on platform and audiovisual equipment requirements BY 31 JULY 2004. <Inquiries and Paper Submissions> Takashi MORITA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Hosei University 3-7-2, Kajinocho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8584 JAPAN FAX : +81 423 87 6270 <morita(a)k.hosei.ac.jp> (EMAIL PREFERRED) <Deadlines and Dates> 30 APRIL 2004 - DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS 31 MAY 2004 - Notification of acceptance; preliminary workshop program; additional workshop information 31 JULY 2004 - Revised working papers due; uploaded to Commission website 7-9 SEPTEMBER 2004 - Joint Workshop on Ubiquitous, Pervasive and Internet Mapping, Tokyo, JAPAN <Program Committee> Masatoshi ARIKAWA, CSIS, The University of Tokyo, Japan James CARTER, Geography, Illinois State University, USA Bill CARTWRIGHT, Geospatial Science, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia David FAIRBAIRN, School of Civil Engineering and GeoSciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Georg GARTNER, Department of Geoinformation and Cartography - TU Vienna, Austria Takashi MORITA (Chair), Laboratory of Urban Spatial Information, Hosei University, Japan Atsuyuki OKABE, CSIS, The University of Tokyo, Japan Michael PETERSON (Co-chair), Geography/Geology, Nebraska-Omaha, USA Ryosuke SHIBASAKI, CSIS, The University of Tokyo, Japan Yoshiki WAKABAYASHI, Laboratory of Urban and Human Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan <Local Arrangement> Fumio MATSUMOTO, Plannet Architectures Takeshi NAKATANI, Internet Research Institute, Inc Yoh SHIRAISHI, CSIS, The University of Tokyo ------------------ 有川　正俊（ARIKAWA, Masatoshi）東京大学　空間情報科学研究センター（引っ越しで場所が少し変わりました。）駒場リサーチキャンパス　45号館 3F 東京都目黒区駒場 4-6-1（〒153-8904） TEL. 03-5453-5693,（代表）03-5453-5690 FAX. 03-5453-5699 Email. arikawa(a)csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp WWW. http://www.csis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~arikawa http://www.s-it.org/

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ICDE 2005 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
by Shojiro NISHIO 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

日本データベース学会の皆様来年４月に東京で開催予定の、第21回 IEEE データ工学国際会議(ICDE 2005) の論文募集（英語版）をお送りいたします。 ICDEは、ACM SIGMOD、VLDBとならんで、データベース分野の三大国際会議と呼ばれております。論文アブストラクト締切は今年の６月２４日、本文締切７月１日となっております。日本から１編でも多くの論文をご投稿いただきますよう、何卒宜しくお願い申し上げます。 ICDE 2005 Program Co-Chair 西尾章治郎 8><============================================================ PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS The 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005) April 5-8, 2005 National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan Sponsored by The IEEE Computer Society The Database Society of Japan (DBSJ) Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) (Pending final approval from IPSJ and IEICE) http://icde2005.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/ http://icde2005.naist.jp/ (mirror) Scope ----- Data Engineering deals with the use of engineering techniques and methodologies in the design, development and assessment of information systems for different computing platforms and application environments. The ICDE 2005 International Conference on Data Engineering provides a premier forum for: - sharing research solutions to problems of today's information society - exposing practicing engineers to evolving research, tools, and practices, and providing them with an early opportunity to evaluate these - raising awareness in the research community the problems of practical data engineering applications - promoting the exchange of data engineering technologies and experience among researchers and practicing engineers - identifying new issues and directions for future research and development work. Welcome to Tokyo ---------------- The conference will be held in Tokyo, the capital city of Japan. Tokyo is also the most populous metropolitan area in the world. From its establishment in 1603 to the end of the 19th century, Tokyo prospered as a castle town called Edo. Tokyo still remains as an exciting and attractive city that is constantly developing. Yet despite its complex urban landscape and impressive architecture, this city abounds with parks and gardens. Particularly in the Spring season, blooming cherry blossoms will welcome you to Tokyo. Well-known sites close to Tokyo include the Great Buddha statue at Kamakura and the scenic Mt. Fuji. Paper Submissions ----------------- ICDE 2005 invites research submissions on all topics related to data engineering, including but not limited to those listed below (the corresponding area chairs are listed at the end of this preliminary call for papers): 1. Database System Internals and Performance 2. Query Processing and Optimization 3. Data Warehouse, OLAP, and Statistical Databases 4. Mining Data, Text and Web 5. Semi-structured Data and XML 6. Middleware, Web Services, and Workflow 7. Heterogeneity, Semantic Web, and Metadata 8. Privacy and Security 9. Stream Processing, Continuous Queries, and Sensor Databases 10. Database Applications and Experiences 11. Temporal, Spatial, Scientific, and Biological Databases 12. Distributed, Parallel, Deep Web, and P2P Databases 13. Data Management for Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing Research papers must be submitted via the ICDE 2005 web site (http://icde2005.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/) by July 1, 2004, in 8.5" X 11" IEEE camera-ready format, with a 12-pagen limit. Further instructions will be posted on the Submissions web page of the conference web site. All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. An award will be given to the best paper. ==================================================================== Important Dates --------------- Abstract deadline: June 24(THU), 2004 2pm PST Submission deadline: July 1(THU), 2004 2pm PST Notification date: September 13(MON), 2004 ==================================================================== Demonstrations -------------- Demonstration proposals should focus on new technology, advances in applied databases, or new techniques. Demonstration proposals must be no more than four double-column pages, and should give a brief description of the demonstrated system, explain what is going to be demonstrated, and state the significance of the contribution to database technology, applications, or techniques. Proposals should be submitted electronically by July 1, 2004 to the Demo Chair, Ling Liu (lingliu(a)cc.gatech.edu) Industrial Program, Panels, Seminars ------------------------------------- Information for proposing Industrial Program, Panels, and Seminars will be announced soon. Workshops --------- We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with ICDE 2005. We solicit proposals for workshops related to the conference topics. Proposals for workshops should stress how they intend to provide more insight into the proposed topics with respect to the main conference. The scope definition of the proposal should encompass only some of the topics of the main conference. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the workshop chair, Masatoshi Yoshikawa (yosikawa(a)itc.nagoya-u.ac.jp) with the title, a description of the topic, and the names of key organizers such as program chair(s), by July 1, 2004. Prior contact with the workshop chair is encouraged. The organizer(s) of approved workshops will be responsible for advertising their workshop, and for the reviewing process for their workshop's papers, and for the collection of camera-ready copies of accepted papers. Currently, workshops on the following topics are planned: * Ubiquitous Data Management (UDM2005) --- In Memoriam Prof. Kambayashi --- * Challenges in Web Information Retrieval and Integration * Biomedical Data Engineering * Privacy Data Management * Autonomic Database Systems Conference Officers (*chairperson) ------------------- Honorary Chair: The Late Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Organizing Committee Chair: Yoshifumi Masunaga (Ochanomizu University, Japan) General Chairs: Rakesh Agrawal (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) Masaru Kitsuregawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Program Chairs: Karl Aberer (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) Michael Franklin (UC Berkeley, USA) Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University, Japan) Executive Committee Chair: Jun Adachi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Panel Chairs: Umeshwar Dayal (HP Labs, USA) Hongjun Lu (Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, China) Hans-Jorg Schek (UMIT, Austria, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Tutorial Chairs: Michael J. Carey (BEA Systems, USA) Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST, Korea) Demo Chair: Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Industrial Chairs: Anand Deshpande (Persistent Systems, India) Anant Jhingran (IBM Silicon Valley Lab, USA) Eric Simon (Medience, France) Local Arrangement: Haruo Yokota* (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Naoki Akaboshi (Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan) Masatoshi Arikawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) Norio Katayama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Takashi Kobayashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Takashi Tomii (Yokohama National University, Japan) Workshop: Masatoshi Yoshikawa* (Nagoya University, Japan) Toshiyuki Amagasa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Proceedings Chair: Motomichi Toyama (Keio University, Japan) Publicity: Hiroyuki Kitagawa* (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Yoshiharu Ishikawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) DBSJ Liaison: Hiroshi Ishikawa (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) Treasurer: Miyuki Nakano (University of Tokyo, Japan) Area Chairs ----------- 1. Database System Internals and Performance Anastassia Ailamaki (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) 2. Query Processing and Optimization Alfons Kemper (University of Passau, Germany) 3. Data Warehouse, OLAP, and Statistical Databases Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) 4. Mining Data, Text and Web Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National University, Korea) 5. Semi-structured Data and XML Jayavel Shanmugasundaram (Cornell University, USA) 6. Middleware, Web Services, and Workflow Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 7. Heterogeneity, Semantic Web, and Metadata Wolfgang Nejdl (University of Hannover, Germany) 8. Privacy and Security Sharad Mehrotra (UC Irvine, USA) 9. Stream Processing, Continuous Queries, and Sensor Databases Phillip Gibbons (Intel Research, USA) 10. Database Applications and Experiences Jayant R. Haritsa (IISc Bangalore, India) 11. Temporal, Spatial, Scientific, and Biological Databases Jignesh M. Patel (University of Michigan, USA) 12. Distributed, Parallel, Deep Web, and P2P Databases Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece) 13. Data Management for Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)

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CFP: 信学会DE研6月研究会 (発表申込締切1週間前)
by Takashi Tomii 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

日本データベース学会の皆様ＡＣＭＳＩＧＭＯＤ日本支部の皆様 6月7日(月)に奈良先端大にて開催される電子情報通信学会データ工学研究会(DE)の第一種研究会(6月)の論文募集のご案内を再度させていただきます。テーマは「インターネット環境のコンテンツ技術」ですが、それに限らず、広く一般の研究発表も募集しております。発表申込締切は1週間後の4月14日(水)となっております。発表申込は下記の申込書に、タイトル、著者(連絡先)と50字程度のアブストラクトだけで結構です。多数のお申込をお待ち申し上げております。富井尚志横浜国立大学大学院環境情報研究院 ====================================================================== 電子情報通信学会データ工学研究専門委員会 (DE) 第一種研究会 (6 月) 発表論文募集のご案内「インターネット環境のコンテンツ技術および一般」 ====================================================================== 日時: 平成 16 年 6 月 7 日 (月) 会場: 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学　　　先端科学技術調査センター 1F 研修ホール〒630-0192 奈良県生駒市高山町8916-5 　　　http://cast.aist-nara.ac.jp/index-j.html テーマ: インターネット環境のコンテンツ技術および一般 (コンテンツ記述, XML, Web サービス, Web マイニング, Web ウェアハウス, Web 検索, 電子商取引, コンテンツ流通, モバイルコンテンツ, その他一般) ※特集テーマに限らず，広く一般の研究発表も募集しております．発表申込締切日: 平成 16 年 4 月 14 日 (水) (原稿の締切は 5 月 13 日頃の予定です) 発表申込・問合先: 富井尚志(横浜国立大学大学院環境情報研究院) 〒240-8501 横浜市保土ヶ谷区常盤台79-7 Tel: (045)339-4118, Fax: (045)339-4118 E-mail: tommy(a)ynu.ac.jp 研究発表申込書 ※ tommy(a)ynu.ac.jp 宛に E-mail にてお送り下さい． E-mail には返信しますので，返信のない場合は御連絡下さい． 8<--------------------------- 6 月研究会発表申込書論文名: 著者名 (所属，発表者に○): 連絡者氏名 : 連絡者住所 : 連絡者電話番号 : 連絡者 Fax 番号 : 連絡者 E-mail : アブストラクト (50 字程度): 8<--------------------------- ◎本研究会に関する最新の情報は，以下のURLを御覧下さい． http://www.ieice.org/iss/de/jpn/index.html

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NTCIR-4 Open Submittion Session: Call for Papers
by Koji Eguchi 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

日本データベース学会の皆様：国立情報学研究所の江口と申します．以下，ご案内申し上げます．複数のメーリングリストで受け取られた方には申し訳ありません． ======== CALL FOR PAPERS NTCIR-4 2004 Meeting: Open Submission Session Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Summarization June 2-4, 2004, Tokyo, Japan http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir-ws4/index.html The NTCIR-4 Workshop hosts an open submission session. Paper submissions are invited from anybody who are interested in the investigation of the information access technologies and the evaluation methodologies. Submissions from non-NTCIR task participants are welcome. NTCIR is a series of evaluation workshops designed to enhance the research in information access technologies such as information retrieval, question answering, text summarization, text mining, etc., by providing infrastructure of evaluation and testing including large-scale reusable test collections, a forum of researchers, investigation of evaluation methodologies and metrics. The workshop is held once per one and half years, i.e. about 18-month interval. The NTCIR-4 selected five areas of research as "tasks"; cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR), patent retrieval, question answering, text summarization, and Web retrieval. NTCIR Workshop has started in late 1998 with emphasis on Japanese and English, then gradually enlarged the scope to East Asian languages, i.e. Chinese and Korea, and English documents published in East Asia, and has attracted international participation not only from Asia but also from North America, Europe, and Oceania. This year's meeting will include a special emphasis on bringing together researchers in natural language processing, information retrieval, and other language processing technologies for information access, so that we will be able to work together towards moving this interdisciplinary research area of information access. NTCIR-4 Workshop Meeting will held from Wednesday June 2 to Friday June 4. It includes an overview of the NTCIR-4, overview of each of the five above mentioned tasks and selected full system papers from each task, digital posters (poster with demo, or ordinary poster) by every active task participant, and full and short papers in the open submission session. As for the open submission session, the organizers especially encourages submissions that discuss combinations of different information access technologies (ex., question answering and summarization; video, speech and information retrieval, etc.), evaluation methodologies and metrics, and any attempt to exploit the information access and evaluation on extremely large-scale unstructured dynamic document collection such as WEB. IMPORTANT DATES APR 15, 2004 Submission Due: extended abstracts or full papers APR 30, 2004 Notification: acceptance/rejection MAY 25, 2004 Camera-ready full papers, short papers, posters JUNE 2-4, 2004 Conference TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include but not limited to: * Text summarization * Question answering * Information extraction * Information retrieval * Statistical and learning techniques for text processing, including language modelling * Multi- or cross-lingual information access including CLIR, CL question answering, multilingual summarization, language identification, retrieval * Multi- or transmedia information access * Evaluation, test collection building, metrics SUBMISSION INFORMATION Requirements: Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results. Multiple submission: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings, publications, oral presentation as an NTCIR active task participant must report the information about multiple submission. If the paper is accepted by other conference/session/publication, the authors must advice this to the program chairs and choose which occasion the work will be presented by May 15, 2004. Format: The submission must be electronic PDF format. For extended abstract, any format no longer than three pages in A4-sized paper including tables/figures and references. For the full paper, submissions should follow the instruction of NTCIR Working Notes guideline: two-column and no longer than eight pages including tables/figures and references. A PDF file of the paper/abstract and a separate sheet for the information about the paper should be sent to ntc-submit(a)nii.ac.jp as attachment of an email. The separate sheet will include: Title of Work Author(s)' names, affiliations, and email addresses Contact author, contact information Number of pages: A short list of keywords Abstract (no more than 500 words) Information for multiple submission: whether the paper is under consideration for other conferences/publication/oral presentation as NTCIR active task participant or not The submissions may be accepted for oral presentation or for presentation in a digital poster session. The accepted papers will be included in the online working notes and printed/online formal proceedings which will be published after the meeting. CONFERENCE VENUE The NTCIR-4 Workshop Meeting will be held at the National Center for Sciences, where the National Institute of Informatics is situated. It is central part of Tokyo and just across the street from the Royal Palace. The travel and hotel information will be availabe on the Workshop Web site soon. MEETING WEB SITE: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir-ws4/index.html NTCIR-4 WORKSHOP (task description, collections used, etc): http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/work-en.html NTCIR Project: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/index-en.html enquiries: ntcadm(a)nii.ac.jp, or Noriko Kando, at kando (at) nii.ac.jp submission: ntc-submit(a)nii.ac.jp, or Noriko Kando, at kando (at) nii.ac.jp --

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