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[English Announcement]	                             March 4, 2003

                   Call for Participation

                    The 4th NTCIR Workshop

       Evaluation of Information Access Technologies:
Information Retrieval, Question Answering, and Summarization
                  Meeting: Late May 2004
            http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir-ws4/


The Online Registration for the 4th NTCIR Workshop has now started!
Participation is invited from anyone interested in research on
information access technologies, such as retrieval from large-scale
test collections various genres, cross-lingual information retrieval
of Asian languages, question answering and text summarization of
Japanese texts. NTCIR Workshops are periodical event which are held
once par one and half years.


TASKS: NTCIR-4 selected the following 5 areas of research as "Tasks".

1. Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Task (CLIR)
   Multilingual CLIR, Bilingual CLIR and Pivot Bilingual CLIR, and
   Single language IR
   Languages: Traditional Chinese, Korean, English and Japanese

2. Patent Retrieval Task (PATENT)
   Main task: Invalidity Search
   Feasibility study: a step for Patent Map Automatic Creation

3. Question Answering Task (QAC)
   "5 Possible Answers", "Only One Answer" and  "Follow-up Questions"

4. Text Summarization Task (TSC)
   Multiple document summarization. The details to be announced later.

5. Web Task (WEB)
   Informational retrieval, Navigational retrieval, Geographical
   information, Topical classification


TEST COLLECTIONS:

CLIR collection includes Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, English
documents published in East Asia in 1998-1999. The size of the English
and Korean document collections were increased than NTCIR-3, and the
Korean document collection published in the same year range is vailable.

PATENT collection has been extended to 10-year collection of Japanese
patent and English abstracts. NTCIR-3 PATENT, the test collection used
in PATENT at NTCIR-3 (2-year fulltext and 5-year English and
Japanese abstracts) is available for training as well as research
purpose use.

QAC and TSC use Japanese newspaper articles, published in 1998-1999,
and the number of the newspaper sources has been increased, i.e.,
using the news articles from two different newspapers.

WEB uses NW100G-01, the same Web document collection as those for
NTCIR-3. 100 GB web documents crawled in November 2001 in '.jp' domain.



OFFICIAL LANGUAGE:

The official language for the proceedings papers and the Workshop
meeting is English. Announcements will be in English, or English
and Japanese.


MEETING & PROCEEDINGS:

The final proceedings will be published online as well as printed-form.
The selected best papers will be recommended to a special issue on
NTCIR-4, ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing
(ACM-TALIP).


IMPORTANT DATES:

2003-03-20:  Registration Due
2003-03-30:  Document Data Release

  Each task's evaluation schedule varies. The formal run at each task
  is planned sometime during October, 2003 -- January, 2004.

2004-02-20: Evaluation Results Release
2004-03-19: Deadline of Camera-ready manuscript for Working Notes of
             the Meeting
Late May 2004:  Meeting, NII, Tokyo, Japan


FOR DETAILS, PLEASE VISIT http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir-ws4/


You are most welcome!

Noriko Kando
ntcir project
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