日本データベース学会の皆様 兵庫県立大学の山本岳洋です． 今年から2023年12月にかけて，NTCIR-17が行われます． NTCIR-17では情報検索・自然言語処理に関わる5のタスクが採択されています． 9月28日（水）13時よりタスクの紹介をZoomにて実施する予定です． ご興味がある方は下記登録フォームより ご参加いただければ幸いでございます （Zoomリンクを後日送付させていただきます）． なお，発表資料等は後日ホームページより閲覧可能になる予定です． 登録フォーム https://forms.office.com/r/Ps2zucXgd0 また，追加のタスク提案募集についても予定しております． こちらについても追ってNTCIRのページにてご案内させていただきます． ========================================================== NTCIR-17 Evaluation of Information Access Technologies Call for Participation to the NTCIR-17 Kick-Off Event https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-17/kickoffcfp-ja.html https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-17/ Date: September 28th (Wed) 2022, From 13:00 To 14:30 p.m. (JST) Location: Online (Zoom) Fees: Free Registration Form: (Zoom link will be provided to the registered address before the event) https://forms.office.com/r/Ps2zucXgd0 ========================================================== Let's participate in a collaborative activity for enhancing Information Access technologies! ------------------------------------------------------------ Development of information access technologies based on techniques of information retrieval, natural language processing, and database management becomes increasingly more important for many applications (e.g., providing effective access to Web resources and text archives, and analyzing big data obtained from various kinds of sensors). It is indispensable for developing such technologies to experimentally evaluate them by using test collections constructed under collaborations of many researchers. Over the 20 years, NTCIR has been formulating the infrastructure for the evaluation, and contributing to development of the information access technologies. NTCIR has been the major forum for researchers to intensively discuss the evaluation methodology of emerging information access technologies. We would like to hold an event to introduce the NTCIR-17 and exciting new evaluation tasks. Are you researcher in information access area, a faculty member, a researcher in industry, or simply interested in informatics? Anyone is welcome for the event! Join us to share the advance of the state of the art information access research and development! NTCIR-17 Kick-Off Event ------------------------------------------------------------ Date/Time: September 28th (Wed) 2022, From 13:00 To 14:30 p.m. Location: Online (Zoom) Fees: Free Regietration: https://forms.office.com/r/Ps2zucXgd0 Zoom link will be sent to the registered email address before the event. Kick-Off Event Tentative Program ------------------------------------------------------------ NTCIR-17 Kick-Off Event 13:00 - 14:30, September 28, 2022 (JST), Zoom - Overview of NTCIR - What’s new in NTCIR-17 - Task Introduction - Why participate? - How to participate - Important Dates - Q & A NTCIR-17 Tasks ------------------------------------------------------------ CORE TASKS 1. FinArg : Fine-grained Argument Understanding in Financial Analysis 2. MedNLP-SC : Medial Natural Language Processing for Social media and Clinical texts 3. QA Lab-PoliInfo-4 : QA Lab for Political Information 4 PILOT TASKS 4. FairWeb-1 : The First Fair Web Task 5. Transfer: Resource Transfer Based Dense Retrieval * One more proposal is conditionally accepted and still under review Contact Us ------------------------------------------------------------ We are looking forward to your participation ! NTCIR-17 Program Co-Chairs: Takehiro Yamamoto (Co-chair, University of Hyogo, Japan) Zhicheng Dou (Co-chair, Renmin University of China) NTCIR-17 General Co-Chairs: Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada) Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China) -- Takehiro Yamamoto, Associate Professor School of Social Information Science, University of Hyogo Email: t.yamamoto@sis.u-hyogo.ac.jp Tel: 078-794-5212 https://rerank-lab.org/