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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
NACSIS Collection Japanese Text Retrieval Workshop
November 1998 - July 1999
Conducted by:
NTCIR Project Group,
National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS), Japan
Co-sponsored by: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
In cooperation with: Information Processing Society Japan (IPSJ)
URL: http://www.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/~ntcadm/workshop/work-en.html
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A competition-type workshop in Japanese text retrieval will be held from
November 1998 to July 1999. Participation is invited from anyone interested
in Japanese text retrieval and cross-lingual information retrieval, from
large-scale collections of scientific documents.
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
- To encourage research in information retrieval, cross-lingual
information retrieval and related areas by providing a large-scale
Japanese test collection.
- To provide a forum for research groups interested in comparing
results and exchanging ideas or opinions in an informal atmosphere.
- To improve the quality of the Test Collections based on the
feedback from participants.
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION (DATA)
- NACSIS Test Collection 1 (Kando et al. 1998): more than 330,000
documents of summaries of papers presented at conferences hosted by 65
Japanese academic societies in various subject fields; more than half
are Japanese-English paired documents.
- A tagged corpus: part of the Test Collection 1 containing detailed
part-of-speech tags with three levels of lexical boundaries (Kageura et
al.1997).
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
By October 31, 1998: Submit application.
Beginning November, 1998: Document disks distributed to those
participants who have returned the required permission forms needed to
obtain the documents. Thirty topics for training purposes will be
available from the Workshop's home page through a password given to
active participants.
February 8, 1999: New fifty topics for ad hoc task and cross-lingual task
distributed.
March 1, 1999: Ad hoc results and cross-lingual results due.
May 17,1999: Results of Relevance Assessment for the new topics
will be distributed to the participants.
By May 31, 1999: Submit application for Oral Presentation at the
Workshop's meeting in July.
By June 21, 1999: Submit camera-ready Copy for the Proceedings
July 1999: Workshop meeting in Tokyo, Japan.
TASK DESCRIPTIONS
Below, is a brief summary of the tasks envisaged for the Workshop.
More detailed description and samples are found on the Workshop's web site.
A participant will conduct one or more of the tasks below:
- Ad hoc information retrieval task : to investigate the retrieval
performance of systems that search a static set of documents using new
search topics
- Cross-lingual information retrieval task : an ad hoc task in which
documents are in English and topics are in Japanese
- Automatic term recognition and role analysis task : (a) to extract
terms from titles and abstracts, and (b) to identify the terms
representing the "object", "method" and "main operation" of the main
topic.
APPLICATIONS
Please complete and returned the application form attached below via
e-mail to [log in to unmask] by October 31, 1998.
Online registration is available at:
http://www.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/~ntcadm/workshop/application/app-en.html
By fax or postal mail, please print out the application form, complete,
and send to:
ATTN: Noriko Kando
R & D Dept.
NACSIS
3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku,
Tokyo 112-8640
Japan
fax: +81-3-5095-7064
phone: +81-3-3942-6969
ENQUIRIES
Please send email to Noriko Kando, project co-leader, at [log in to unmask],
or to NTCIR Project administrators at [log in to unmask]
About "Automatic term recognition & role analysis task" in the
Workshop, please send email to Kyo Kageura at [log in to unmask]
NOTES
- The Workshop's meeting in July, 1999 will be open only to
participating groups that submit results and selected people from
sponsoring agencies.
- The papers presented at the Workshop's meeting will be published in
the Workshop Proceedings.
- Dissemination of the research results using NACSIS Test Collection
other than in the Workshop's Proceedings is welcomed. However, the
conditions of participation preclude specific advertising claims based
on the results using the Collection or the Workshop.
- International participants are welcome. Announcements will be in
Japanese and English.
FURTHER INFORMATION
http://www.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/~ntcadm/workshop/work-en.html
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Types of Praticipation
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7. Types of participation:
A. Full: Submit retrieval results and describe the system
B. Results only: Submit retrieval results, but you do not have to
describe details of the system
** notes **
If you need to act as anonymous (to be refered by group's ID only),
please check here. ANONYMOUS ____
8. Types of tasks we will take part in are:
Ad hoc IR
Cross-lingual IR
Term extraction & role analysis
9.Special needs
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