日本データベース学会の皆様
お茶大の小口です。
既にアナウンスされているように2024年7月2日〜5日に岐阜市の
長良川国際会議場でDASFAA 2024が開催されます。
以下はそのチュートリアル募集です。
https://www.dasfaa2024.org/call-for-tutorial-proposals/
4/1を〆切としてアレンジしておりますので、チュートリアルの
提案内容をお持ちの方は是非、応募をご検討ください。
どうぞよろしくお願い致します。
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The 29th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced
Applications (DASFAA 2024)
July 2-5, 2024, Gifu, Japan
CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
https://www.dasfaa2024.org/call-for-tutorial-proposals/
The goal of the DASFAA 2024 tutorial track is to offer the conference
attendees an introduction to the state-of-the-art topics in research,
development and applications in database technologies and advanced data
management, processing and analysis systems. We invite tutorial proposals
from active researchers, engineers, and practitioners on topics (such as
big data etc.) of potential interest to the attendees of the main
conference. We note that a tutorial should not only focus on the
presenters’ previous work, but also present a good review of all
significant work in the area of the topic. Each tutorial will have a
length of 1.5 hours.
Important Dates
All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time.
Proposal submission due: April 1, 2024
Acceptance notification: April 15, 2024
Instructions for submission
Tutorial proposals should be handled electronically, in PDF format (Max 4
pages, LNCS style), through the CMT system by April 1, 2024 (23:59 Any
Where on Earth (AoE) Time). Each tutorial proposal should include the
following information.
- Tutorial title
- Contact information of the presenters: names, affiliations, addresses,
and email addresses
- Motivation for the tutorial
- Brief outline of the tutorial content
- Specific goals and objectives
- Whether the tutorial was presented elsewhere in the past (and if so)
what the attendance was
- Significant references of the tutorial
- Short biographies of the presenters
The received tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the organizers based
on the importance of the topic of the proposal and the balance of coverage
and depth of contents. Acceptance notifications will be sent by April 15,
2024. Tutorials will be presented during the main DASFAA-2024 conference
as parallel sessions. The tutorial slides will be made available on the
conference website. The conference registration fee will be waived for
tutorial speakers. An honorarium will also be paid for the tutorial
presenter(s). The topics of accepted tutorials and the names of the
presenters will be included in the conference proceedings.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at
dasfaa2024tutorial(a)db.is.i.nagoya-u.ac.jp.
Tutorial Chairs
- Masato Oguchi, Ochanomizu University, Japan
- Wenjie Zhang, University of New South Wales, Australia
- RAGE Uday Kiran, University of Aizu, Japan
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Masato OGUCHI, Dr.Eng.
Department of Information Sciences
Ochanomizu University
https://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~oguchi/https://www.is.ocha.ac.jp/~oguchi_lab/http://ogl.is.ocha.ac.jp/
oguchi(a)is.ocha.ac.jp
日本データベース学会の皆様
名古屋市立大学の小山と申します。
7月に岐阜で開催されるDASFAAの併設ワークショップ
ERDSE(Emerging Results in Data Science and Engineering)
の論文募集のお知らせです。
Data Science, Data Engineeringに関する論文を幅広く募集いたします。
たとえば、DEIMで発表される内容の論文でしたら、ほぼ対象に入ると思います。
Research Paperの他に、Work-in-Progress Paperのカテゴリも設け、
若手研究者・学生の皆様からの萌芽的な研究の投稿もお待ちしております。
ワークショップで発表頂いた論文はポスト・プロシーディングスとして
Springer LNCSから刊行される予定です。
投稿締切はDASFAA本会議の採択通知後、3月22日を予定しております。
投稿をご検討頂けましたら幸いです。
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The DASFAA 2024 Workshop on Emerging Results in Data Science and Engineering (ERDSE 2024)
July 2nd, 2024
Nagaragawa Convention Center, Gifu City, Japan
Various systems and services, including generative AI, built on massive amounts of data, are revolutionizing our society. For their development, not only technologies related to data science, such as machine learning, but also data engineering techniques for efficiently managing large amounts of data are essential. In order for them to be accepted by society, various aspects of data management, such as privacy, security, and fairness, must also be taken into consideration. This workshop aims to provide an opportunity for presentations and discussions, especially for young researchers and students, in the area of the convergence of data science and data engineering, where many new research topics and results are emerging.
The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Data Science and AI: Large Language Models (LLM), Explainable AI (XAI), Interpretable Machine Learning
Data Engineering and Databases: Big Data, Graph Data, Data Security, Data Privacy
Information Retrieval and Recommendation: Social Media, Information Credibility, Polarization and Echo Chambers
Multimedia Data: Media Understanding, AI Generated Content, Multimodal AI
Human Factors: Human Computation, Crowdsourcing, Human-in-the-Loop Methods, Bias and Fairness
Application Domains: Healthcare, Education, Mobility
[Paper Categories]
Research Papers (*) (long presentation): They report significant and original results relevant to the scope of this workshop. We solicit innovative or thought-provoking work but they do not necessarily have to reach the level of completion. Each submitted paper should include an abstract up to 200 words and be no longer than 16 pages (including references, appendices, etc.) in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format. The expected length is between 12 and 16 pages.
Work-in-progress papers (short presentation): They present the goals, challenges, and preliminary results of research work in progress. Each submitted paper should include an abstract up to 200 words and be no longer than 8 pages (including references, appendices, etc.) in LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format. The expected length is between 4 and 8 pages.
(*) Some of the papers submitted to the research paper category may be accepted as Work-in-progress papers and allotted to short presentation slots.
[Paper Format]
Paper submission must be in English. There is no need for authors to mask their names and affiliations in the manuscript. Submissions must be original (not previously published and not under review in other forums). Please use one of the following templates for the LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
[Publication]
The papers accepted and presented at the DASFAA workshops will be published as post-proceedings in a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
[Important Dates]
Paper submission deadline: 2024.3.22
Acceptance notification: 2024.4.26
(Anywhere on Earth)
[Organizers]
Satoshi Oyama (Nagoya City University)
Jiyi Li (University of Yamanashi)
[Program Committee]
Daisuke Kitayama, Kogakuin University
Dominik Köppl, University of Yamanashi
Hiroaki Shiokawa, University of Tsukuba
Hiroaki Ohshima, University of Hyogo
Makoto P. Kato, University of Tsukuba
Masafumi Oyamada, NEC
Jianwei Zhang, Iwate University
Kazutoshi Umemoto, University of Tokyo
Kento Sugiura, Nagoya University
Kei Wakabayashi, University of Tsukuba
Kejing Lu, Nagoya University
Shoko Wakamiya, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Takehiro Yamamoto, University of Hyogo
Toshiyuki Shimizu, Kyushu University
Yang Cao, Hokkaido University
Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu
Yoshiyuki Shoji, Shizuoka University
Yousuke Watanabe, Nagoya University
Yuanyuan Wang, Yamaguchi University
Yusuke Yamamoto, Nagoya City University
Yuto Hayamizu, University of Tokyo
Yuyang Dong, NEC
[Contact]
erdse2024(a)gmail.com
[Web Page]
https://erdse2024.github.io/
日本データベース学会の皆様、
NTT の新井です。
査読付き国内会議 xSIG 2024 の論文募集について再度お知らせします。
xSIG はレビューを通じて研究の発展を支援する会議です。
DEIM の予稿集論文を提出済みの方や追い込み作業中の方もいらっしゃると
思いますが、まさにそういった論文のブラッシュアップに最適です。
学生さん向けの賞も多数ありますので、ぜひ投稿をご検討ください。
(English follows Japanese)
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[Call for Papers]
xSIG 2024
The 8th Cross-disciplinary Workshop
on Computing Systems, Infrastructures, and Programming
(https://xsig.ipsj.or.jp/2024/)
【会期・会場】
会期 2024年8月7-9日 SWoPP2024内
会場 あわぎんホール(徳島県徳島市)
【主催・協賛】
主催:
情報処理学会 システム・アーキテクチャ研究会 (ARC)
同 ハイパフォーマンスコンピューティング研究会 (HPC)
同 システムソフトウェアと
オペレーティング・システム研究会 (OS)
同 プログラミング研究会 (PRO)
共催: IEEE Computer Society Tokyo/Japan Joint Chapter
協賛:
情報処理学会 データベースシステム研究会 (DBS)
電子情報通信学会 コンピュータシステム研究専門委員会 (CPSY)
同 データ工学研究専門委員会 (DE)
同 リコンフィギャラブルシステム研究専門委員会 (RECONF)
【重要日程】
2024/3/12(火) 17:00 (JST): 論文登録〆切
2024/3/19(火) 17:00 (JST): 論文アップロード〆切
2024/4/30(火)頃: 採否通知
2024/7/ 9(火) 17:00 (JST): ポスター投稿〆切
2024/7/10(水)頃: ポスター採否通知
2024/8/7(水)-9(金): SWoPP 2024 開催 (xSIG2024はその一部)
xSIG (cross-disciplinary workshop on computing Systems, Infra-
structures, and programminG) は,JSPP,SACSIS,ACSI の伝統を受け継ぎ,
2017年より新たに始まった国内会議です.全主催・協賛研究会の分野にまたがる
(cross-SIG) 幅広い分野を対象とします.
xSIG は,これら分野にまたがる発表,議論の場を提供すること,および,
国際標準的なピアレビューを行って若い研究者を育成することを目指していま
す.特に,
・xSIGで得られたフィードバックを基に研究を進展させ,国際学会やジャーナ
ルへと歩を進めることを期待します.予稿集を発行しませんが,採択された
論文は,会議期間中,会議参加者のみに対して提供します.また,昨年までに
引き続き,情報処理学会ACS論文誌ではxSIG連携号を準備しています.xSIGの
次のステップの一つとして投稿をご検討ください.
・国際標準的な学会形式(査読を意識した投稿,査読を受ける・する,PC会議
での議論など)を通じて,実質的なフィードバック,および,若い研究者への
査読論文執筆の訓練・練習の場を提供します.学生を含む若手研究者が,
論文査読やプログラム委員を早期体験する機会としてヤング・プログラム委員
制度を設けます.
・学生を対象とする賞を多く設けます.
2020年より,xSIGは国内のコンピューティングシステム関連の研究会が一堂に
会する機会であるSWoPPの中で開催しています.
【組織】
プログラム委員長
光来健一 (九州工業大学)
プログラム副委員長
新井 淳也 (NTT)
大島 聡史 (九州大学)
塩谷 亮太 (東京大学)
ポスター委員長
平石 拓 (京都橘大学)
プログラム幹事
桝井 晃基 (大阪大学)
組織委員長
鯉渕 道紘 (国立情報学研究所)
組織委員
井上 拓 (IBM)
岩下 武史 (京都大学)
遠藤 敏夫 (東京工業大学)
小口 正人 (お茶の水女子大学)
合田 和生 (東京大学)
五島 正裕 (国立情報学研究所)
田浦 健次朗 (東京大学)
竹房 あつ子 (国立情報学研究所)
滝沢 寛之 (東北大学)
津邑 公暁 (名古屋工業大学)
中田 秀基 (産業技術総合研究所)
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[Pre-Call for Papers]
xSIG 2024
The 8th Cross-disciplinary Workshop
on Computing Systems, Infrastructures, and Programming
(http://xsig.ipsj.or.jp/2024e/)
[Date and Venue]
Date: Aug. 7-9, 2024 in SWoPP
Venue: Awagin Hall (Tokushima-shi, Tokushima)
[Technical Sponsors]
Sponsors:
- IPSJ SIG System Architecture (ARC)
- IPSJ SIG High Performance Computing (HPC)
- IPSJ SIG System Software and Operating Systems (OS)
- IPSJ SIG Programming (PRO)
Co-sponsors:
- IEEE Computer Society Tokyo/Japan Joint Chapter
Support:
- IPSJ SIG Database Management System (DBS)
- IEICE Technical Committee on Computer System (CPSY)
- IEICE Technical Committee on Data Engineering (DE)
- IEICE Technical Committee on Reconfigurable Systems (RECONF)
[Important Dates]
- Mar. 12, 2024, 17:00 JST: Paper registration due
- Mar. 19, 2024, 17:00 JST: Paper upload due
- Apr. 30, 2024: Author notification
- Jul. 9, 2024: Poster submission due
- Jul. 10, 2024: Author notification (poster)
- Aug. 7-9, 2024: SWoPP 2024 (xSIG schedule will be announced)
[Scope and Objectives]
xSIG (cross-disciplinary workshop on computing Systems, Infra-
structures, and programminG) is a workshop from 2017,
inheriting the tradition of JSPP,SACSIS,and ACSI. It solicits
contributions from a wide range of fields related to computing systems,
infrastructures, and programming, spanning all areas covered by the
sponsoring special interest groups (cross-SIG).
The main objectives of xSIG are to provide a forum to present and
discuss research ideas among researchers spanning many fields and to
raise young researchers through a globally standard peer review process.
In particular,
- We hope authors of xSIG workshop to advance their research based on
feedback received and step up to submitting their work to
international conferences and journals. We do not publish
workshop proceedings. The papers presented in xSIG will be available
only to the audience during the workshop. For those who want to
publish their work, we collaborate with IPSJ Transactions on ACS for
Special Issue on xSIG.
- We hope to give authors substantial feedback as well as a place for
young researchers to practice/improve writing papers for review,
through the globally standard conference format of submitting papers
for review, receiving/writing reviews, discussing papers in the
program committee meeting, etc. For this, we establish
Young Program Committee alongside the regular Program
Committee and welcome the participation of young researchers
including students to it, for "an early exposure" of motivated
students to peer review work normally done by senior researchers.
- We award many students.
From 2020, xSIG is co-located with SWoPP event (Summer United Workshops
on Parallel, Distributed and Cooperative Processing), in which many SIGs
on computing systems held workshops.
[Organization]
Program Chair
KOURAI, Kenichi (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Program Vice-Chairs
ARAI, Junya (NTT)
OHSHIMA, Satoshi (Kyushu University)
SHIOYA, Ryota (The University of Tokyo)
Poster Chair
HIRAISHI, Tasuku (Kyoto Tachibana University)
Program Secretary
MASUI, Koki (Osaka University)
Organizing Chair
KOIBUCHI, Michihiro (National Institute of Informatics)
Organizing Committee
INOUE, Hiroshi (IBM)
IWASHITA, Takeshi (Kyoto University)
ENDO, Toshio (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
OGUCHI, Masato (Ochanomizu University)
GODA, Kazuo (The University of Tokyo)
GOSHIMA, Masahiro (National Institute of Informatics)
TAURA, Kenjiro (The University of Tokyo)
TAKEFUSA, Atsuko (National Institute of Informatics)
TAKIZAWA, Hiroyuki (Tohoku University)
TSUMURA, Tomoaki (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
NAKADA, Hidemoto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
and Technology (AIST))
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新井 淳也 (ARAI Junya), PhD
Computer & Data Science Labs, NTT Corp.
日本データベース学会の皆様,
(重複して受け取られた場合にはご容赦ください)
お世話になります。山名@早稲田です。
IEEE SmartComp2024(大阪/2024/6/29-7/2)(WSは6/29開催)
では、5つのワークショップの論文を募集しております。
日本での開催は初めてとります。多くの投稿をお待ちしております。
#その他、ポスター、PhDフォーラムの募集もあります。
詳細: https://smartcomp.w.waseda.jp/
IEEE SmartCompは、今年で10回目をむかえるスマートコンピューティングに
関する会議で、センサー、IoT、サイバーフィジカルシステム、エッジコンピューティング、
ビッグデータ分析、機械学習、コグニティブコンピューティング、AI、セキュリティ技術
を含めた学際的な会議です。
募集中のWS
(投稿締切:3/31、採否通知:4/30、カメラレディ:5/10、開催:6/29)
https://smartcomp.w.waseda.jp/workshops/
8th International Workshop on Big Data and IoT Security in Smart Computing (BITS 2024)
10th Workshop on Sensors and Smart Cities (SSC)
3rd International Workshop on Smart Agriculture for the Environmental Emergency (SmartAgr 2024)
9th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys)
1st International Workshop on Digital and Mobile Smart Health Systems (DM-SmartHealth 2024)
==
DBJAPANの皆さま
井上創造です。
行動とふるまいに関する国際会議(ABC)の論文と、チャレンジのリマインドです。
・この度、ジャーナルがJ-Stage(国の論文公開プラットフォーム)での出版されることが決まりました。(著者はIEEE会議録とどちらで出版したいか、選択することになります。)
・同時に、行動認識チャレンジということで、ビデオからとった看護行動スケルトンの認識コンペティションも行います。(説明会が1月17日にオンラインであります。)
・論文タイトルの締め切りも1月17日になっています。
北九州と、福沢諭吉の生家のある中津市で行います。周りに興味ありそうな方がいたら、まずはタイトルだけでもお申し込みください!
---------- CALL FOR PAPERS -----------
The 6th International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing
May 29-31, 2024, Nakatsu & Kitakyushu, Japan (Hybrid)
https://abc-research.github.io/
(Please send an empty email to abc2024(a)sozolab.jp to get updates!)
Human Activity Recognition has been researched in thousands of papers so
far, with mobile / environmental sensors in ubiquitous / pervasive domains,
and with cameras in vision domains. As well, Human Behavior Analysis is
also explored for long-term health care, rehabilitation, emotion
recognition, human interaction, and so on. However, many research
challenges remain for realistic settings, such as complex and ambiguous
activities / behavior, optimal sensor combinations, (deep) machine
learning, data collection, platform systems, and killer applications.
In this conference, we comprehend such research domains as ABC: Activity
and Behavior Computing, and provide an open and a confluent place for
discussing various aspects and the future of the ABC.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We welcome 3 categories of papers: regular papers, position papers, and
challenge papers. The submitted papers are peer reviewed by expert
researchers, and accepted based on the research quality.
Accepted and presented papers will be published as IEEE Proceedings or a
J-Stage open access journal (Authors can choose. Details will be updated
soon).
SCOPE
• Mobile sensor-based ABC
• Environmental sensor-based ABC
• Vision-based ABC
• Multimodal ABC
• Physical / semantic analysis of ABC
• Gait analysis
• Sleep analysis
• Emotion recognition / analysis
• ABC with deep learning
• ABC data mining
• Data collection
• ABC systems
• Interactive ABC
• Healthcare applications
• Nursing applications
• Elderly care applications
• Sports applications
• Business applications
• Tools for industry
• ABC in the wild
CATEGORIES
- Regular papers (4-10 pages) (TBA): full technical content papers (to be
published in IEEE proceedings or J-Stage open access journal).
- Position papers (2-4 pages): describe the challenges and future
directions of ABC based on problems that arise when systems are deployed in
real settings (Not to be published).
- Challenge papers: we will provide a dataset and accept results for a
recognition challenge with papers describing the methods and the results.
SPECIAL SESSIONS (TBA)
- SS1: Nursing Activity and Analysis
Chair: Noriyo Colley, Hokkaido University, Japan
- SS2: Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) of the Human as Long-Term Measurement
Chair: Emi Yuda, Tohoku University, Japan
- SS3: Integrated Use of Multiple Datasets on ABC
Chair: Yu Enokibori, Nagoya University, Japan
- SS4: Sensing and Recognition of Work Activities
Chair: Takuya Maekawa, Osaka University, Japan
IMPORTANT DATES
- Title and Abstract: Jan. 17, 2024
- Paper deadline: Feb. 7, 2024
- Review result: Mar 6, 2024
- Resubmission: Mar 27, 2024
- Camera ready: Apr. 17, 2024
- Conference: May. 29-31, 2024
COMMITTEE
GENERAL CHAIRS
- Sozo Inoue, Kyushu Institute of Technology / AUTOCARE LLC, Japan
- Md Atiqur Rahman Ahad, University of East London, UK
PROGRAM CHAIRS
- Guillaume Lopez, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
- Björn W. Schuller, Imperial College London, UK and Technical University
of Munich, Germany
ADVISORY BOARD
- Anind Dey, University of Washington, USA
- Björn W. Schuller, Imperial College London, UK and Technical University
of Munich, Germany
- Jeffry Cohn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Kristof Van Laerhoven, University of Siegen, Germany
- Michael Beigl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Paul Lukowicz, RPTU / DFKI, Germany
- Thomas Plötz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Prof. Sozo Inoue, Director, Care XDX Center, Kyutech, JAPAN
日本データベース学会の皆様
#重複してお受け取りの場合はご容赦ください
奈良先端大の若宮と申します.
今年から2025年6月にかけて行われますNTCIR-18のタスク提案の
締切が【2月9日】に迫っておりますので,改めてご案内いたします.
NTCIR-18では,大規模言語モデル (LLM) が生成するコンテンツ
の品質評価タスクなどの提案も募集しています.また,ある問題を
広く周知したい,評価方法を確立したい,他の方と問題を共有したい
方なども,ぜひご提案いただければ幸いです.
どうぞよろしくお願いいたします.
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CALL FOR NTCIR-18 TASK PROPOSALS
(Task Proposals Due: February 9, 2024)
We are delighted to announce the call for task proposal of NTCIR-18.
NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is
a series of evaluation conferences that mainly focus on information
access with East Asian languages and English. The first NTCIR
conference (NTCIR-1) took place in August/September 1999, and the
latest NTCIR-17 conference was held in December 2023. Research teams
from all over the world participate in one or more NTCIR tasks to
advance the state of the art and to learn from one another's
experiences.
Now it is time to call for task proposals for the next NTCIR (NTCIR-18
) which will start in March 2024 and conclude in June 2025. Task
proposals will be reviewed by the NTCIR Program Committee, following
the schedule below:
* IMPORTANT DATES:
Feb 9, 2024 Task Proposal Submission Due (Anywhere on Earth)
Mar 8, 2024 Acceptance Notification of Task Proposals
* DETAILS OF CALL FOR TASK PROPOSAL & SUBMISSION LINKS:
https://easychair.org/cfp/ntcir18proposalhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir18proposal
* NTCIR-18 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
Mar 2024: Kickoff Event
May 2024: Dataset release*
Jun-Dec 2024: Dry run*
Sep 2024-Feb 2025: Formal run*
Feb 1, 2025: Evaluation results return
Feb 1, 2025: Task overview release (draft)
Mar 1, 2025: Submission due of participant papers (draft)
May 1, 2025: Camera-ready participant paper due
Jun 10-13 2025: NTCIR-18 Conference
(* indicates that the schedule can be different for different tasks)
* WHO SHOULD SUBMIT NTCIR-18 TASK PROPOSALS?
We invite new task proposals within the expansive field of information
access. Organizing an evaluation task entails pinpointing significant
research challenges, strategically addressing them through
collaboration with fellow researchers (including co-organizers and
participants), developing the requisite evaluation framework to propel
advancements in the state of the art, and generating a meaningful
impact on both the research community and future developments.
Prospective applicants are urged to underscore the real-world
applicability of their proposed tasks by utilizing authentic data,
focusing on practical tasks, and solving tangible problems.
Additionally, they should confront challenges in evaluating
information access technology, such as the extensive number of
assessments needed for evaluation, ensuring privacy while using
proprietary data, and conducting live tests with actual users.
In the era of large language models (LLMs), these models are
anticipated to significantly influence daily human activities.
Nonetheless, the content produced by LLMs often exhibits issues, such
as hallucinations. NTCIR-18 specifically encourages tasks that focus
on evaluating the quality of content generated by LLMs.
* PROPOSAL TYPES:
We will accept two types of task proposals:
- Proposal of a Core task:
This is for fostering research on a particular information access
problem by providing researchers with a common ground for evaluation.
New test collections and evaluation methods may be developed through
the collaboration between task organizers (proposers) and task
participants. At NTCIR-17, the core tasks are Lifelog-5, QA Lab-
PoliInfo-4, MedNLP-SC, SS-2, and FinArg-1 (Details can be found at
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-17/tasks.html).
- Proposal of a Pilot task:
This is recommended for organizers who propose to focus on a novel
information access problem and there are uncertainties either in task
designing or organization. It may focus on a sub-problem of an
information access problem and may attract a smaller group of
participating teams than core tasks. However, it may grow into a core
challenging task in the next round of NTCIR. At NTCIR-17, the pilot
tasks are FairWeb-1, Transfer, UFO, and ULTRE-2 (Details can be found
at http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-17/tasks.html).
Organizers are expected to run their tasks mainly with their own
funding and to make the task as self-sustaining as possible. A part of
the fund can be supported by NTCIR, which is called "seed funding". It
is usually used for some limited purposes such as hiring relevance
assessors. The amount of seed funding allocated to each task varies
depending on requirements and the total number of accepted tasks.
Typical cases would be around 1M JPY for a core task and around 0.5M
JPY for a pilot task (note that the amount is subject to change).
Please submit your task proposal as a pdf file via EasyChair by Feb 9,
2024 (Anywhere on Earth).
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir18proposal
* TASK PROPOSAL FORMAT:
The proposal should not exceed six pages in A4 single-column format.
The first five pages should contain the main part and appendix, and
the last page should contain only a description of the data to be used
in the task. Please describe the data in as much detail as possible so
that we can help your data release process after the proposal is
accepted. In the past NTCIRs, it took much time to create memorandums
for data release, which sometimes slowed down the task organization.
Main part
- Task name and short name
- Task type (core or pilot)
- Abstract
- Motivation
- Methodology
- Expected results
Appendix
- Names and contact information of the organizers
- Prospective participants
- Data to be used and/or constructed
- Budget planning
- Schedule
- Other notes
Data (to be used in your task)
- Details
(Please describe the details of the data, which should include the
source of the data, methods to collect the data, range of the data,
etc.)
- License
(Please make sure that you have a license to distribute the data, and
details of the license should be provided. If you do not have
permission to release the data yet, please describe your plan to get
the permission.)
- Distribution
(Please describe how you plan to distribute the data to participants.
There are mainly three choices: distributed by the data provider,
distributed by organizers, and distributed by NII.)
- Legal / Ethical issues
(If the data can cause legal or ethical problems, please describe how
you propose to address them. e.g. some medical data may need approval
from an ethical committee. e.g. some Web data may need filtering for
excluding discriminative messages.)
If you want NII to distribute your data to task participants on behalf
of you, please send an email to ntc-admin(a)nii.ac.jp prior to your task
proposal submission attaching the task proposal.
* REVIEW CRITERIA:
- Importance of the task to the information access community and to
the society
- Timeliness of the task
- Organizers’ commitment in ensuring a successful task
- Financial sustainability (self-sustainable tasks are encouraged)
- Soundness of the evaluation methodology
- Detailed description about the data to be used
- Language scope
* NTCIR-18 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University, China)
Chung-Chi Chen (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST), Japan)
Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST),
Japan)
* NTCIR-18 GENERAL 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)