| The NTCIR Workshop : the First Evaluation Workshop on Japanese Text Retrieval and Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (1999) | |||||||||||||
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| This paper introduces the outline of the first NTCIR Workshop, which is the first evaluation workshop designed to enhance research in Japanese text retrieval and cross-lingual information retrieval. The test collection used in the Workshop consists of more than 330,000 documents with more than half are EnglishJapanese paired. Twenty-three groups from four countries have conducted IR tasks and submitted the search results. Various approaches were tested and reported at the Workshop. Finally some thoughts on the future directions of the NTCIR Workshop and evaluation of cross-lingual information retrieval with Asian languages are suggested. 1. Background and Aims The First NTCIR Workshop was held on August 30-Septebmer 1, 1999, in Tokyo[1]. The participation to the Workshop was limited to the active participants, i.e. the members of the research groups that submitted the results of the tasks, advisors and members of the organizing group. Many interesting papers with various approaches w... | |||||||||||||
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