# Sorry if you receive multiple copies.
# There are Japanese announcement below.

Call for Participation of two workshops:

                     NTCIR/IREX Joint Workshop
                        September 1, 1999
        http://www.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/~ntcadm/workshop/joint/

                            IREX Workshop
                        September 2-3, 1999
     http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/sekine/IREX/workshop.html


They will be held at the same hotel (KKR Hotel Tokyo).
Both workshops are open to the public and free of charge.


Please look at each CFP below or the homepages.

Thanks.



[NTCIR/IREX joint workshop : English Announcement] *********************

                       Call For Participation                       
                      NTCIR/IREX Joint Workshop                      
          - Information Retrieval and Information Extraction -

            http://www.rd.nacsis.ac.jp/~ntcadm/workshop/joint/

                 Co-organized by NTCIR/NACSIS and IREX
                 In cooperation with IPSJ, SIG-FI/IPSJ

                           September 1, 1999
                            KKR Hotel Tokyo
                             Tokyo, JAPAN

  The joint workshop of NTCIR (NACSIS Test Collection for IR) and 
  IREX (Information Retrieval and EXtraction) will be held.  Your 
  participation is most welcome.

o Date: 
    9:00 - 17:00  September 1, 1999  (17:30 - 19:00  Banquet)

o Venue:
    KKR Hotel Tokyo 
      1-4-1 Ohtemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004 JAPAN 
      Phone: +81-3-3287-2921; Fax: +81-3-3287-2913 
      Just in front of the Takebashi Station of the Tozai Line Subway
     (0 minute to walk!!).  Situated in 5-minite drive from Tokyo 
      Station and across the street from the Imperial Palace.  From 
      the Narita International Airport to the Tokyo Station, there 
      are frequent services of Shuttle trains and Limousine buses. 

o Fee:
    Admission is free 
    Banquet: 8,500 Yen per person

o Application for Participation:
      Send e-mail to [log in to unmask] with (1) your name, (2) 
      affiliation, (3) postal address, phone/fax number, e-mail 
      address, (4) participation in reception or not.  Participation 
      will be first-come-first-served base. 

o Program:
     9:00           Open
     9:30 -  9:45   Opening Remarks
     9:45 - 11:00   Keynote Speech(1) "TREC": Donna Harman (NIST, USA)
    11:00 - 11:45   NTCIR Workshop Overview:  Noriko Kando (NACSIS, Japan)
    13:30 - 14:45   Keynote Speech(2) "MUC and the Future of IE":
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    14:45 - 15:30   IREX Workshop Overview:   Satoshi Sekine (NYU, USA)
    15:45 - 16:45   Panel Discussion
    16:45 - 17:00   Closing Remarks
    17:30 - 19:00   Banquet

o Contact Information:
    NTCIR/IREX Joint Workshop Project (Attn: Toshihiko NOZUE)
    E-mail: [log in to unmask];  Fax: +81-3-5395-7064
    
 * Officail Language is English. 
 * NTCIR Workshop is supported by JSPS "Research for the Future Program: 
   Studies on Ubiquitous Information Systems for Utilization of Highly
   Distributed Information Resources."
 * On site resistration is possible until the room will be full.

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			Organized by IREX Committee
		    In cooperation with JSAI, ANLP, SIG-FI/IPSJ

			      September 2-3, 1999
			       KKR Hotel Tokyo
				Tokyo, JAPAN

 It is a workshop of the IREX (Information Retrieval and Extraction),
 which is a competition-based project on IR and IE.
 Please have a look at the homepage for the detail.
 It is free of charge, and open to the public.

 * Officail Language at IREX workshop is Japanese.

[IREX Workshop : Japanese Announcement] *******************************

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