[dbjapan] NTCIR-16キックオフイベント参加募集（2021年3月29日開催）

[Takehiro Yamamoto <t.yamamoto [at] sis.u-hyogo.ac.jp>]

日本データベース学会のみなさま，

兵庫県立大の山本岳洋です．
今年から2022年6月にかけて，NTCIR-16が行われます．
NTCIR-16では4つの新しいタスクが加わり，
情報検索・自然言語処理に関わる10のタスクが実施される予定です．

直前の連絡となり恐縮ではございますが，
3月29日（月）15時よりそれらのタスクの紹介を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
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　NTCIR-16
　Evaluation of Information Access Technologies
　Call for Participation to the NTCIR-16 Kick-Off Event

  http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-16/kickoffcfp-ja.html
  http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-16/

　Date: March 29th (Monday) 2021, From 15:00 To 16:30 p.m. (JST)
　Location: Online (Zoom)
  Fees: Free

  オンライン登録フォーム:
  (Zoom link will be provided to the registered address before the event)
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Let's participate in a collaborative activity for enhancing Information 
Access technologies!


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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.
As the details have been finalized for NTCIR-16, we would like to hold 
an event to introduce the NTCIR-16 and exciting new evaluation tasks. 
Are you a 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-16 Kick-Off Event
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Date/Time: March 29th (Monday) 2021, From 15:00 To 16:30 p.m.
Location: Online (Zoom)
Fees: Free
Regietration:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2jYZ9YhkfEe-Rx6l4UUL2odG4GYfSnFPl0ZxGM_omxlUNkZJVjcwQjIwQ09PWkNUTEtUM0ZNSjJBWC4u
Zoom link will be sent to the registered email address before the event.

Kick-Off Event Tentative Program
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NTCIR-16 Kick-Off Event
15:00 - 16:30, March 29, 2021 (JST), Zoom

- Overview of NTCIR
- What’s new in NTCIR-16
- Task Introduction
- Why participate?
- How to participate
- Important Dates
- Q & A


NTCIR-16 Tasks
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CORE TASKS
1. Data Search 2: Data Search 2
- Search and question answering for statistical data
2. DialEval-2: Dialogue Evaluation 2
- Estimating the quality of a customer-helpdesk dialogue; understanding 
the role of each dialogue turn towards problem solving
3. FinNum-3: Investor’s and Manager’s Fine-grained Claim Detection
- Investor’s and Manager’s Fine-grained Claim Detection
4. Lifelog-4: Lifelog Access and Retrieval
- Evalutating approaches to information retrieval from multimodal lifelogs
5. QA Lab-PoliInfo-3: Question Answering Lab for Political Information
- QA Lab-PoliInfo-3 aims to solve four tasks Question Answering, QA 
Alignment, Fact Verification and Budget Argument Mining) in political 
issues.
6. WWW-4: We Want Web 4 with CENTRE
- Quantifying advances and reproducibility in web search

PILOT TASKS
7. RCIR: Reading Comprehension for Information Retrieval
- Text reading signals in Information Retrieval
8. Real-MedNLP: Real document-based Medical Natural Language Processing
- Medical natural language processing using real medical documents
9. SS: Session Search
- Session search tasks based on practical data
10. ULTRE: Unbiased Learning to Ranking Evaluation Task
- Evaluating unbiased learning-to-rank with user simulation


Contact Us
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We are looking forward to your participation !

NTCIR-16 Program Co-Chairs:
Takehiro Yamamoto (Co-chair, University of Hyogo, Japan)
Zhicheng Dou (Co-chair, Renmin University of China)

NTCIR-16 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)


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Takehiro Yamamoto, Associate Professor
School of Social Information Science, University of Hyogo
Email: t.yamamoto [at] sis.u-hyogo.ac.jp
Tel: 078-794-5212
https://rerank-lab.org/