tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55150788432198041702024-03-14T11:32:47.034+09:00IR Maniac II (検索メイニアック II)Tetsuya Sakai's blog on information retrieval research
酒井哲也の情報検索研究ブログtetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-56318318908832954172011-01-04T12:19:00.001+09:002011-01-04T12:21:11.098+09:00I have moved my blogI have moved my blog to <a href="http://ameblo.jp/irmaniac/">http://ameblo.jp/irmaniac/</a>.tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-92050223627909392322010-11-04T11:57:00.009+09:002010-11-04T12:17:34.421+09:001st CFP for NTCIR-9 INTENT and 1CLICK out now!NTCIR-9 runs seven tasks:<br /><a href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-9/tasks.html">Intent (INTENT), Recognizing Inference in TExt (RITE), Geotemporal Information Retrieval (GeoTime), IR for Spoken Documents (SpokenDoc), Cross-Lingual Link Discovery (CrossLink), Interactive Visual Exploration (Vis-Ex) and Patent Machine Translation (PatentMT)</a><br /><br />Hideo Joho and I are working as the evaluation co-chairs of NTCIR-9.<br /><br />Also, I am one of the task organisers of <br /><a href="http://www.thuir.org/intent/ntcir9/">INTENT</a> and <a href="http://www.thuir.org/1click/ntcir9/">One Click Access (1CLICK)</a> which is officially a subtask of INTENT but actually more like a separate task.<br /><br /><font color="green">INTENT Subtasks:<br />Subtopic Mining - given a query, list up possible intents;<br />Document Ranking - selectively diversify search results to cover different intents<br />1CLICK - return a fixed length text that immediately satisfies the user</font><br /><br />We have started distributing the first call for participation for INTENT and 1CLICK.<br />Please visit the above pages and consider participating.<br /><br />If you are interested in any of the NTCIR-9 tasks, <br />please note that the <a href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-9/howto.html">task participant registration</a> closes on December 20, 2010.<br /><br /><a href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-9/index.html">The NTCIR-9 final meeting</a> will take place December 6-9, 2011 at NII, Tokyo, Japan.tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-80742001374994472072010-08-13T12:46:00.004+09:002010-08-13T12:51:05.965+09:00Accepted NTCIR-9 TasksThe NTCIR-9 task selection commitee and <br />the evaluation chairs have accepted <br />the following tasks.<br />Updates will be announced at the <br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/index-en.html">NTCIR website</A>.<br /><br /><font color="blue">CORE TASKS</font><br /><br />Intent (with One-Click Access subtask)<br /><br />Recognizing Natural Language Inference<br /><br />Geotemporal information retrieval<br /><br />IR for Spoken Documents<br /><br /><font color="blue">PILOT TASKS</font><br /><br />Cross-lingual Link Discovery<br /><br />Evaluation Framework of Interactive Information Access<br /><br />Patent Machine Translationtetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-8966240928571554482010-05-21T16:23:00.002+09:002010-05-21T16:26:29.811+09:00My publications coming up at EVIA 2010 / NTCIR-8Just to remind myself...<br /><br />Sakai, T., Craswell, N., Song, R., Robertson, S., Dou, Z. and Lin, C.-Y.:<br />Simple Evaluation Metrics for Diversified Search Results,<br />EVIA 2010 Proceedings, 2010.<br /><br />Sakai, T. and Lin, C.-Y.:<br />Ranking Retrieval Systems without Relevance Assessments – Revisited,<br />EVIA 2010 Proceedings, 2010.<br /><br />Song, R., Qi, D., Liu, H., Sakai, T., Nie, J.-Y., Hon, H.-W. and Yu, Y.:<br />Constructing a Test Collection with Multi-Intent Queries,<br />EVIA 2010 Proceedings, 2010.<br /><br />Gey, F., Larson, R., Kando, N., Machado, J. and Sakai, T.:<br />NTCIR-GeoTime Overview: Evaluating Geographic and Temporal Search,<br />NTCIR-8 Proceedings, 2010.<br /><br />Ishikawa, D., Sakai, T. and Kando, N.:<br />Overview of the NTCIR-8 Community QA Pilot Task (Part I): The Test Collection and the Task,<br />NTCIR-8 Proceedings, 2010.<br /><br />Mitamura, T., Shima, H., Sakai, T., Kando, N., Mori, T., Takeda, K., Lin, C.-Y., Song, R., Lin, C.-J. and Lee, C.-W.:<br />Overview of the NTCIR-8 ACLIA Tasks: Advanced Cross-Lingual Information Access,<br />NTCIR-8 Proceedings, 2010.<br /><br />Sakai, T., Ishikawa, D. and Kando, N.:<br />Overview of the NTCIR8 Community QA Pilot Task (Part II): System Evaluation,<br />NTCIR-8 Proceedings, 2010.<br /><br />Sakai, T., Shima, H., Kando, N., Song, R., Lin, C.-J., Mitamura, T., Sugimoto, M. and Lee, C.-W.:<br />Overview of NTCIR-8 ACLIA IR4QA,<br />NTCIR-8 Proceedings, 2010.<br /><br />Song, Y.-I., Liu, J., Sakai, T., Wang, X.-J., Feng, G., Cao, Y., Suzuki, H. and Lin, C.-Y.:<br />Microsoft Research Asia with Redmond at the NTCIR-8 Community QA Pilot Task,<br />NTCIR-8 Proceedings, 2010.<br /><br />They will be available online at<br /><a href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/ws-en.html">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/ws-en.html</a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-92126170636275251132010-05-21T12:13:00.021+09:002010-05-21T12:32:25.814+09:00Taipei pictures担担面非常好吃!<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8ijqm7lI/AAAAAAAAAlk/5AVSTFcxTZo/s1600/P1050642.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8ijqm7lI/AAAAAAAAAlk/5AVSTFcxTZo/s400/P1050642.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473558592758410834" /></a><br />もうイカ口調<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8dLgiA7I/AAAAAAAAAlc/oAqh_RLPql8/s1600/P1050643.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8dLgiA7I/AAAAAAAAAlc/oAqh_RLPql8/s400/P1050643.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473558500374348722" /></a><br /><br />Yasu buying fruits <br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8WZ0A51I/AAAAAAAAAlU/zsRlOffY8ec/s1600/P1050599.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8WZ0A51I/AAAAAAAAAlU/zsRlOffY8ec/s400/P1050599.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473558383955076946" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8OSzpsrI/AAAAAAAAAlM/85-JWmwnycM/s1600/P1050608.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8OSzpsrI/AAAAAAAAAlM/85-JWmwnycM/s400/P1050608.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473558244635554482" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8JI72fdI/AAAAAAAAAlE/CdPAXl23tng/s1600/P1050616.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8JI72fdI/AAAAAAAAAlE/CdPAXl23tng/s400/P1050616.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473558156086246866" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8BHE80YI/AAAAAAAAAk8/Pvyt7jPBVcY/s1600/P1050627.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X8BHE80YI/AAAAAAAAAk8/Pvyt7jPBVcY/s400/P1050627.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473558018148585858" /></a><br /><br />故宫<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X78WsU1OI/AAAAAAAAAk0/63PEAEI1vP4/s1600/P1050630.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X78WsU1OI/AAAAAAAAAk0/63PEAEI1vP4/s400/P1050630.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473557936440923362" /></a><br /><br />Banquet food - no, not Matsuzaka beef, but "Matsuzaka pork" ...<br />and the English translation says "Kobe pork"...<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7q96tmZI/AAAAAAAAAks/P0ASEHW8ukc/s1600/P1050645.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7q96tmZI/AAAAAAAAAks/P0ASEHW8ukc/s400/P1050645.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473557637732604306" /></a><br /><br />谈水<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7gsDw9lI/AAAAAAAAAkk/hGDhvl0brdM/s1600/P1050637.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7gsDw9lI/AAAAAAAAAkk/hGDhvl0brdM/s400/P1050637.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473557461140043346" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7ZyCB6oI/AAAAAAAAAkc/CC9g1V0W3Bc/s1600/P1050634.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7ZyCB6oI/AAAAAAAAAkc/CC9g1V0W3Bc/s400/P1050634.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473557342484294274" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7Tz5-aSI/AAAAAAAAAkU/jpjwhagKzO4/s1600/P1050635.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7Tz5-aSI/AAAAAAAAAkU/jpjwhagKzO4/s400/P1050635.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473557239908165922" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7N1XBqWI/AAAAAAAAAkM/Ds5jBG5vLh8/s1600/P1050636.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7N1XBqWI/AAAAAAAAAkM/Ds5jBG5vLh8/s400/P1050636.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473557137219234146" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7CA7eSII/AAAAAAAAAkE/pvtngmrnlFQ/s1600/P1050638.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X7CA7eSII/AAAAAAAAAkE/pvtngmrnlFQ/s400/P1050638.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473556934166464642" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X64Xa0_vI/AAAAAAAAAj8/XtGQEB8Y3QA/s1600/P1050639.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S_X64Xa0_vI/AAAAAAAAAj8/XtGQEB8Y3QA/s400/P1050639.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473556768404864754" /></a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-83669010467758155102010-05-10T18:11:00.029+09:002010-05-10T18:27:51.989+09:00Paris pictures<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPUDgXMII/AAAAAAAAAj0/yriHJtEVnqw/s1600/P1050546.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPUDgXMII/AAAAAAAAAj0/yriHJtEVnqw/s400/P1050546.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469568215910133890" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPQv44SmI/AAAAAAAAAjs/Qeg7DK9s82A/s1600/P1050549.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPQv44SmI/AAAAAAAAAjs/Qeg7DK9s82A/s400/P1050549.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469568159104649826" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPNK41MKI/AAAAAAAAAjk/hArsEFOKEJY/s1600/P1050550.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPNK41MKI/AAAAAAAAAjk/hArsEFOKEJY/s400/P1050550.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469568097632727202" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPJMeOgQI/AAAAAAAAAjc/2iAE9X-fWyU/s1600/P1050551.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPJMeOgQI/AAAAAAAAAjc/2iAE9X-fWyU/s400/P1050551.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469568029338534146" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPE4VPAtI/AAAAAAAAAjU/NeVaLnC4qWE/s1600/P1050555.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPE4VPAtI/AAAAAAAAAjU/NeVaLnC4qWE/s400/P1050555.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469567955212632786" /></a><br />Fujita-san<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPAzZF3RI/AAAAAAAAAjM/KiDQLlJRL24/s1600/P1050557.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fPAzZF3RI/AAAAAAAAAjM/KiDQLlJRL24/s400/P1050557.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469567885167156498" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fO7Cl5WhI/AAAAAAAAAjE/vMbt8-dmfeg/s1600/P1050558.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fO7Cl5WhI/AAAAAAAAAjE/vMbt8-dmfeg/s400/P1050558.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469567786168179218" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fO3ViMAbI/AAAAAAAAAi8/EiR_XDMXkJs/s1600/P1050559.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fO3ViMAbI/AAAAAAAAAi8/EiR_XDMXkJs/s400/P1050559.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469567722533421490" /></a><br />This cheese was exquisite. Felt as if I was embracing a goat.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOz3Oi-vI/AAAAAAAAAi0/N8IsrZwWkL8/s1600/P1050563.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOz3Oi-vI/AAAAAAAAAi0/N8IsrZwWkL8/s400/P1050563.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469567662858369778" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOwDCbo3I/AAAAAAAAAis/4K_cklXOhfM/s1600/P1050568.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOwDCbo3I/AAAAAAAAAis/4K_cklXOhfM/s400/P1050568.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469567597309305714" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOscUDqBI/AAAAAAAAAik/dZ4NQ-IZwuM/s1600/P1050571.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOf-063iI/AAAAAAAAAiM/TxpwjR19mCM/s400/P1050578.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469567321300983330" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOcFbyg_I/AAAAAAAAAiE/StlxXLK2XnU/s1600/P1050579.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOcFbyg_I/AAAAAAAAAiE/StlxXLK2XnU/s400/P1050579.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469567254355149810" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOYIFxZ0I/AAAAAAAAAh8/Y6rWgTS34-g/s1600/P1050581.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOYIFxZ0I/AAAAAAAAAh8/Y6rWgTS34-g/s400/P1050581.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469567186348631874" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOPVobFfI/AAAAAAAAAh0/B7rFBgWx3bs/s1600/P1050585.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOPVobFfI/AAAAAAAAAh0/B7rFBgWx3bs/s400/P1050585.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469567035364808178" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOKWloKQI/AAAAAAAAAhs/U2pfJ4W75XM/s1600/P1050587.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOKWloKQI/AAAAAAAAAhs/U2pfJ4W75XM/s400/P1050587.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469566949722171650" /></a><br />Jaana, co-inventor of nDCG at the RIAO banquet<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOFaAqlpI/AAAAAAAAAhk/sVC0-gDeV5M/s1600/P1050588.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOFaAqlpI/AAAAAAAAAhk/sVC0-gDeV5M/s400/P1050588.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469566864741537426" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOBPebO9I/AAAAAAAAAhc/w-nuiiAjb0A/s1600/P1050590.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fOBPebO9I/AAAAAAAAAhc/w-nuiiAjb0A/s400/P1050590.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469566793194093522" /></a><br />Fujita-san at RIAO 2010, discussing curry<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fN6hsWnWI/AAAAAAAAAhU/TUo9XAUvPsg/s1600/P1050595.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S-fN6hsWnWI/AAAAAAAAAhU/TUo9XAUvPsg/s400/P1050595.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469566677825264994" /></a><br />Too much mashed potatoestetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-23614598353385926292010-04-23T16:53:00.004+09:002010-04-23T16:57:42.050+09:00CFP: AIRS2010CALL FOR PAPERS (AIRS 2010; Taipei, Taiwan) <br /> <br />The Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010)<br />December 1-3, 2010 at Conference Hall, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan<br />In cooperation with ACM SIGIR and ACLCLP ROCLING<br /><br /><A href="http://irlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/airs2010">http://irlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/airs2010</A><br /><br />-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />The Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS) aims to bring together<br />researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the<br />field of information retrieval (IR). The scope of the conference covers<br />applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval<br />in text, audio, image, video, and multimedia data. The AIRS 2010 welcomes <br />submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. <br />Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to the following:<br /><br />1. IR Models and Theories <br /><br />2. User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR<br /><br />3. Web IR, Scalability, and Adversarial IR<br /><br />4. Multimedia IR<br /><br />5. NLP for IR (eg. Cross-/Multi- Language IR, Question Answering, <br /> Summarization, Information Extraction)<br /><br />6. Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR (eg. Learning to Rank, Classification, <br /> Clustering)<br /><br />7. IR Applications (eg. Digital Libraries, Vertical Search, Mobile IR)<br /><br />Accepted papers will be published as part of the LNCS series by Springer, and will be EI-indexed.<br /><br />IMPORTANT DATES<br /><br />June 30, 2010 Submissions due<br />July 31, 2010 Notification of acceptance<br />August 14, 2010 Camera-ready due<br />November 1, 2010 Registration deadline<br />December 1-3, 2010 AIRS 2010<br /><br />SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<br /><br />The AIRS 2010 proceedings will be published as an LNCS volume, so please follow<br />the default author instructions available at<br /><br /><A href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0</A><br /><br />In addition, please anonymize your paper to facilitate blind reviewing,<br />and make sure your paper is no longer than 12 pages in the LNCS format.<br />Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be rejected unconditionally.<br /><br />Duplicate submissions (the same paper being submitted to AIRS 2010 and<br />to another conference at the same time) are strictly forbidden; if<br />detected, these submissions will be unconditionally rejected.<br /><br />For paper submission and related information, please visit the AIRS 2010 website.<br /><br />ORGANIZATION<br /><br />Honorary Conference Chair: <br />Si-Chen Lee, President, National Taiwan University<br /><br />Conference Chair: <br />Pu-Jen Cheng, National Taiwan University<br /><br />Publication Chair: <br />Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore<br /><br />Finance Chair: <br />Lun-Wei Ku, National Taiwan University<br /><br />Program Committee Co-Chairs: <br />Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong<br />Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore<br /><br />Webmaster: <br />Chien-Wen Chen, National Taiwan University<br /><br /><br />AREA CHAIRS<br /><br />IR Models and Applications<br />Min Zhang, Tsinghua University<br />Bin Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences<br /><br />User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR<br />Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia<br />William Webber, University of Melbourne<br /><br />Web IR, Scalability, and Adversarial IR <br />Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow<br /><br />Multimedia IR<br />Winston Hsu, National Taiwan University<br />Kazunari Sugiyama, National University of Singapore<br /><br />NLP for IR<br />Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne<br />Atsushi Fujii, Tokyo Institute of Technology<br /><br />Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR<br />Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia<br />Yi Zhang, University of California Santa Cruztetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-10576435014069922832010-04-22T12:31:00.002+09:002010-04-22T12:35:24.765+09:00Papers accepted for EVIA 2010Sukomal Pal , Mandar Mitra and Samaresh Maiti. Estimating Pool-depth on Per Query Basis (SHORT)<br /><br />William Webber, Alistair Moffat and Justin Zobel . The Effect of Pooling and Evaluation Depth on Metric Stability <br /><br />Maristella Agosti , Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Marco Dussin and Nicola Ferro . 10 Years of CLEF Data in DIRECT: Achievements and Perspectives (SHORT)<br /><br /><font color="red">Tetsuya Sakai and Chin-Yew Lin. Ranking Retrieval Systems without Relevance Assessments – Revisited</font><br /><br />Ian Soboroff. Test Collection Diagnosis and Treatment <br /><br /><font color="red">Tetsuya Sakai, Nick Craswell , Ruihua Song, Stephen Robertson, Zhicheng Dou and Chin-Yew Lin. Simple Evaluation Metrics for Diversified Search Results</font><br /><br /><font color="red">Ruihua Song, Dongjie Qi, Hua Liu, Tetsuya Sakai, Jian-Yun Nie, Hsiao-Wuen Hon and Yong Yu . Constructing a Test Collection with Multi-Intent Queries</font><br /><br />Katrin Lamm, Thomas Mandl , Christa Womser-Hacker and Werner Greve. The Influence of Expectation and System Performance on User Satisfaction with Retrieval Systems <br /><br />Keun Chan Park , Jihee Ryu , Kyung-min Kim and Sung Hyon Myaeng . An Evaluation Method for Subjective Taskstetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-31604120130640257502010-04-20T11:09:00.006+09:002010-04-20T11:18:26.643+09:00Looking for a light laptop?My five-year-old has designed and assembled this cool laptop.<br />I've tried it - it's extremely light and small and perfect<br />for business trips. Runs Windows 7; PowerPoint preinstalled.<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S80OEDdBe8I/AAAAAAAAAhE/lVV7zZc3Yvc/s1600/P1050537.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S80OEDdBe8I/AAAAAAAAAhE/lVV7zZc3Yvc/s400/P1050537.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462037385879583682" /></a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-24767328992117798742010-04-06T19:29:00.004+09:002010-04-09T11:22:50.933+09:00My important dates 2010 version 3Apr 06 NTCIR-8 CQA runs due<br />Apr 08 NTCIR-8 ACLIA participants papers due<br />Apr 16 IIiX 2010 reviewers assigned<br />Apr 18 EVIA 2010 reviews due<br />Apr 20 EVIA 2010 acceptance notification<br />Apr 20 NTCIR-8 CQA pilot task results released<br />Apr 23 NTCIR-8 ACLIA feedback from organisers to participants<br />Apr 28-30 RIAO 2010 [Paris]<br />Apr 30 NTCIR-8 early registration deadline<br />May 02 NTCIR-8 CQA pilot task participants papers due<br />May 02 CLEF 2010 submissions due<br />May 06 NTCIR-8 CQA pilot task feedback from organisers to participants<br />May 10 EVIA 2010 final manuscripts due<br />May 15 NTCIR-8 final manuscripts due<br />May 16 IIiX 2010 reviews due<br />May 27 CIKM 2010 abstracts due<br />May 28 CLEF 2010 review deadline<br />Jun 3 CIKM 2010 papers due<br />Jun 15 EVIA 2010 [Tokyo]<br />Jun 15-18 NTCIR-8 [Tokyo]<br />Jun 30? AIRS 2010 submissions due<br />Jul 3? AIRS 2010 reviewer assignment<br />Jul 15 CIKM 2010 acceptance notification<br />Jul 18-23 SIGIR 2010 [Geneva]<br />Jul 25? AIRS 2010 reviews due<br />Jul 28? AIRS 2010 metareviews due<br />Jul 31 AIRS 2010 acceptance notification<br />Aug 4 DBS +IFAT@Aoyama Gakuin U<br />Aug 14 AIRS 2010 camera-ready<br />Aug 15 CIKM 2010 camera-ready<br />Oct 27-29 CIKM 2010 [Toronto]<br />Nov 1 AIRS 2010 registration deadline<br />Dec 1-3 AIRS 2010 [Taipei]tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-55928610462959403522010-04-02T12:34:00.015+09:002010-04-02T12:48:33.718+09:00NTCIR-9 "Shoten" Task?<A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/yahoo/index-en.html">NTCIR-8 Community QA Pilot Task</A>というもののオーガナイザ兼参加者になった関係で、Yahoo!知恵袋のデータを眺めたりしているのだが、例えば<br /><font color="blue"><br />Q: 世界は僕中心に回っていますか? <br />Best Answer: いいえ私を中心に回っています。<以下略><br /></font><br />のように、Qの有用性が低かったり、質問者が選んだbest answerがゴミだったりすることが結構多い。そこで上記タスクでは、best answerによるシステム評価とは別に、4人の判定者に各回答の質をなるべく客観的に絶対評価してもらったデータによるシステム評価も行うことにしている。<br /><br />ときに、NTCIRでは「メディアで話題になるような」タスクが求められていると聞く。研究のmotivationがそんなんでいいのか!?というつっこみはさておき、とりあえず「笑点タスク」なんてどうでしょう。つまり、歌丸師匠が誰に座布団をあげるかを推定するタスク。過去の<A href="http://www.ntv.co.jp/sho-ten/zabuton.html">座布団獲得枚数</A>からauthorityを計算したりして。テレビ受けするんじゃないかな。でもこのタスク、外人にどう説明すればよいのだ。<br /><br />でもUGCっておもしろいね。NTCIR-9では<A href="http://www2.kde.ics.tut.ac.jp/moat/index.php/MOAT">MOAT</A>あたりと連携して、Community QA Taskをもっと盛り上げよう。tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-28979648247937942682010-03-30T17:40:00.004+09:002010-03-30T17:44:46.262+09:00EVIA 2010 deadline extended***** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 2 (timezone: GMT-12)! *****<br /><br />The Third International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access<br />(EVIA 2010), a Satellite Workshop of NTCIR-8<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/</A><br /><br />June 15, 2010 at NII, Tokyo, Japan.<br />*****************************************************************<br /><br />Information Access technologies provide the interface between<br />human information needs and digital information resources. The<br />reliable evaluation of these technologies has been recognized for<br />decades as central to the advancement of the field. As information<br />retrieval becomes more pervasive, the forms of retrieval<br />more diverse, and retrieval tools richer, the importance of<br />effective, efficient, and innovative evaluation grows as well.<br />In recognition of the need for a forum dedicated to the intensive<br />discussion of evaluation issues, we have held two successful<br />International Workshops on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA<br />2007 and 2008). Proceedings and reports can be found below:<br /><br />EVIA 2007 online proceedings:<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/</A><br />EVIA 2008 online proceedings:<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/toc_evia.html">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/toc_evia.html</A><br /><br />SIGIR Forum Report on EVIA 2007:<br /><A href="http://sigir.org/forum/2007D/2007d_sigirforum_sanderson.pdf">http://sigir.org/forum/2007D/2007d_sigirforum_sanderson.pdf</A><br />SIGIR Forum Report on EVIA 2008:<br /><A href="http://sigir.org/forum/2009J/2009j-sigirforum-sakai.pdf">http://sigir.org/forum/2009J/2009j-sigirforum-sakai.pdf</A><br /><br />Following these successes, we are happy to announce the Third<br />International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA<br />2010) on June 15, 2010 (coinciding with Day 1 of the NTCIR-8<br />Workshop Meeting) at the National Institute of Informatics (NII),<br />Tokyo, Japan. We invite papers addressing one or more of the<br />following topics: <br /><br />- Test collection formation, evaluation metrics, and evaluation<br /> environments<br />- Statistical issues in retrieval evaluation<br />- User studies and the evaluation of human-computer interaction<br /> in information retrieval (HCIR)<br />- Evaluation methods for multilingual, multimedia, or mobile<br /> information access<br />- Novel information access tasks and their evaluation<br />- Evaluation and assessment using implicit user feedback,<br /> crowdsourcing, living labs, or inferential methods<br />- Evaluation issues in industrial and enterprise retrieval <br /> systems<br /><br />*** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ***<br /><br />Submissions will be subject to double-blind reviewing. Accepted<br />papers will be included in the EVIA 2010 online proceedings, and<br />summarized in a report to SIGIR Forum.<br /><br />We invite submissions of regular papers (up to 9 pages) and<br />short papers (up to 5 pages).<br />Submission upload page:<br /><A href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evia2010">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evia2010</A><br /><br />*** IMPORTANT DATES (NEW!) ***<br /><br /><font color="red">- April 2, 2010 *submissions due*<br />- April 20, 2010 notification of acceptance</font><br />- May 10, 2010 final manuscripts due<br />- June 15, 2010 EVIA 2010@NII, Tokyo, Japan<br />- June 15-18, 2010 NTCIR-8@NII, Tokyo, Japan<br /><br />*** EVIA 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***<br /><br />Akiko Aizawa NII Japan<br />Javed Aslam Northeastern University USA<br />Nicholas Belkin Rutgers University USA<br />Ben Carterette University of Delaware USA<br />Charlie Clarke University of Waterloo Canada<br />Georges Dupret Yahoo! Research Chile<br />Norbert Fuhr Universitaet Duisburg-Essen Germany<br />Atsushi Fujii Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan<br />Donna Harman NIST USA<br />Hideo Joho University of Tsukuba Japan<br />Gareth Jones Dublin City University Ireland<br />Noriko Kando NII Japan<br />Evangelos Kanoulas University of Sheffield UK<br />Jaana Kekalainen University of Tampere Finland<br />Mounia Lalmas University of Glasgow UK<br />Gary Geunbae Lee POSTECH Korea<br />Mun-Kew Leong National Library Board Singapore<br />Jimmy Lin University of Maryland USA<br />Chin-Yew Lin Microsoft Research Asia China<br />Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow UK<br />Carol Peters IEI-CNR Italy<br />Ian Ruthven University of Strathclyde UK<br />Tetsuya Sakai Microsoft Research Asia China<br />Mark Sanderson University of Sheffield UK<br />Falk Scholer RMIT University Australia<br />Ian Soboroff NIST USA<br />Paul Thomas CSIRO Australia<br />William Webber University of Melbourne Australia<br />Emine Yilmaz Microsoft Research Cambridge UK<br /><br />*** EVIA 2010 CO-CHAIRS ***<br /><br />William Webber (University of Melbourne, Australia)<br /> wew<br />at<br />csse.unimelb.edu.au<br />Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)<br /> m.sanderson<br />at<br />sheffield.ac.uk <br />Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia, China)<br /> tetsuyasakai<br />at<br />acm.orgtetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-5558076378197003352010-03-24T19:50:00.003+09:002010-03-24T19:54:00.974+09:00FINAL CFP: EVIA 2010***** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS *****<br /><br />The Third International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access<br />(EVIA 2010), a Satellite Workshop of NTCIR-8<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/</A><br /><br />June 15, 2010 at NII, Tokyo, Japan.<br />***************************************<br /><br />Information Access technologies provide the interface between<br />human information needs and digital information resources. The<br />reliable evaluation of these technologies has been recognized for<br />decades as central to the advancement of the field. As information<br />retrieval becomes more pervasive, the forms of retrieval<br />more diverse, and retrieval tools richer, the importance of<br />effective, efficient, and innovative evaluation grows as well.<br />In recognition of the need for a forum dedicated to the intensive<br />discussion of evaluation issues, we have held two successful<br />International Workshops on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA<br />2007 and 2008). Proceedings and reports can be found below:<br /><br />EVIA 2007 online proceedings:<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/</A><br />EVIA 2008 online proceedings:<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/toc_evia.html">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/toc_evia.html</A><br /><br />SIGIR Forum Report on EVIA 2007:<br /><A href="http://sigir.org/forum/2007D/2007d_sigirforum_sanderson.pdf">http://sigir.org/forum/2007D/2007d_sigirforum_sanderson.pdf</A><br />SIGIR Forum Report on EVIA 2008:<br /><A href="http://sigir.org/forum/2009J/2009j-sigirforum-sakai.pdf">http://sigir.org/forum/2009J/2009j-sigirforum-sakai.pdf</A><br /><br />Following these successes, we are happy to announce the Third<br />International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA<br />2010) on June 15, 2010 (coinciding with Day 1 of the NTCIR-8<br />Workshop Meeting) at the National Institute of Informatics (NII),<br />Tokyo, Japan. We invite papers addressing one or more of the<br />following topics: <br /><br />- Test collection formation, evaluation metrics, and evaluation<br /> environments<br />- Statistical issues in retrieval evaluation<br />- User studies and the evaluation of human-computer interaction<br /> in information retrieval (HCIR)<br />- Evaluation methods for multilingual, multimedia, or mobile<br /> information access<br />- Novel information access tasks and their evaluation<br />- Evaluation and assessment using implicit user feedback,<br /> crowdsourcing, living labs, or inferential methods<br />- Evaluation issues in industrial and enterprise retrieval <br /> systems<br /><br />*** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ***<br /><br />Submissions will be subject to double-blind reviewing. Accepted<br />papers will be included in the EVIA 2010 online proceedings, and<br />summarized in a report to SIGIR Forum.<br /><br />We invite submissions of regular papers (up to 9 pages) and<br />short papers (up to 5 pages).<br />Submission upload page:<br /><A href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evia2010">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evia2010</A><br /><br />*** IMPORTANT DATES ***<br /><br /><font color="red">- March 31, 2010 *submissions due*</font><br />- April 18, 2010 notification of acceptance<br />- May 10, 2010 final manuscripts due<br />- June 15, 2010 EVIA 2010@NII, Tokyo, Japan<br />- June 15-18, 2010 NTCIR-8@NII, Tokyo, Japan<br /><br />*** EVIA 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***<br /><br />Akiko Aizawa NII Japan<br />Javed Aslam Northeastern University USA<br />Nicholas Belkin Rutgers University USA<br />Ben Carterette University of Delaware USA<br />Charlie Clarke University of Waterloo Canada<br />Georges Dupret Yahoo! Research Chile<br />Norbert Fuhr Universitaet Duisburg-Essen Germany<br />Atsushi Fujii Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan<br />Donna Harman NIST USA<br />Hideo Joho University of Tsukuba Japan<br />Gareth Jones Dublin City University Ireland<br />Noriko Kando NII Japan<br />Evangelos Kanoulas University of Sheffield UK<br />Jaana Kekalainen University of Tampere Finland<br />Mounia Lalmas University of Glasgow UK<br />Gary Geunbae Lee POSTECH Korea<br />Mun-Kew Leong National Library Board Singapore<br />Jimmy Lin University of Maryland USA<br />Chin-Yew Lin Microsoft Research Asia China<br />Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow UK<br />Carol Peters IEI-CNR Italy<br />Ian Ruthven University of Strathclyde UK<br />Tetsuya Sakai Microsoft Research Asia China<br />Mark Sanderson University of Sheffield UK<br />Falk Scholer RMIT University Australia<br />Ian Soboroff NIST USA<br />Paul Thomas CSIRO Australia<br />William Webber University of Melbourne Australia<br />Emine Yilmaz Microsoft Research Cambridge UK<br /><br />*** EVIA 2010 CO-CHAIRS ***<br /><br />William Webber (University of Melbourne, Australia)<br /> wew<br />at<br />csse.unimelb.edu.au<br />Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)<br /> m.sanderson<br />at<br />sheffield.ac.uk <br />Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia, China)<br /> tetsuyasakai<br />at<br />acm.orgtetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-51587029665425138552010-03-22T17:43:00.005+09:002010-03-22T17:49:43.179+09:00EVIA 2010 submission site is readyI've set up a submission upload page for EVIA 2010.<br />Please read the instructions on<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/</A><br />first and then upload via<br /><A href="https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=evia2010">https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=evia2010</A><br />(We will soon provide a link from the EVIA main page to the submission page.)<br /><br />Winter's gone, and now this...<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S6cuJrky9ZI/AAAAAAAAAgY/PV1-luZX0CY/s1600-h/P1050520.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S6cuJrky9ZI/AAAAAAAAAgY/PV1-luZX0CY/s400/P1050520.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451376617806034322" /></a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-33746250654303222582010-03-08T16:23:00.003+09:002010-03-08T16:25:36.308+09:00Where is Spring?This is not smog - it's snowing again...<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S5SmMBWnn7I/AAAAAAAAAgQ/UWM6ffTU3eQ/s1600-h/P1050486.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S5SmMBWnn7I/AAAAAAAAAgQ/UWM6ffTU3eQ/s400/P1050486.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446160574849720242" /></a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-83419857727756298812010-03-08T16:16:00.005+09:002010-03-08T16:23:03.043+09:00Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour<A href="http://www.boeing.com/commercial/tours/index.html">飛行機を作るところ</A>を見てきました。スケールは大きいのですが、おもいっきり手作り感があってびっくりしました。<br />飛行機は、機械ではなく人間が作っているのだと感じました。<br />(肝心の工場内は撮影禁止でした。)<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S5SkrFitBGI/AAAAAAAAAgI/OagoGuM4DRs/s1600-h/P1050473.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S5SkrFitBGI/AAAAAAAAAgI/OagoGuM4DRs/s400/P1050473.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446158909526836322" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S5SkmS0qmwI/AAAAAAAAAgA/AUlCnHEof4Y/s1600-h/P1050472.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S5SkmS0qmwI/AAAAAAAAAgA/AUlCnHEof4Y/s400/P1050472.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446158827192490754" /></a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-45049463345546253992010-03-01T14:24:00.002+09:002010-03-01T14:26:49.079+09:00Wikipedia for Breakfast?W<font color="red">e</font>kipedia actually.<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tPwuLiOMI/AAAAAAAAAf4/Hw3OnzN7vP8/s1600-h/P1050411.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tPwuLiOMI/AAAAAAAAAf4/Hw3OnzN7vP8/s400/P1050411.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443532273056102594" /></a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-17620607619187911072010-03-01T14:23:00.001+09:002010-03-01T14:24:31.540+09:00Paul will never die<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tPX8VuGeI/AAAAAAAAAfw/e1X-Xmdj41o/s1600-h/P1050432.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tPX8VuGeI/AAAAAAAAAfw/e1X-Xmdj41o/s400/P1050432.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443531847360190946" /></a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-72180612887457325762010-03-01T14:07:00.009+09:002010-03-01T14:17:41.718+09:00No more war, please...夜中の1時をすぎてもどんどんぱちぱち。<br />ベランダに出ると火傷します。<br />もう花火と爆竹はうんざり。<br />来年のこの時期は国外に避難しようっと<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tMTowIhsI/AAAAAAAAAfo/Wl_LoWs89tQ/s1600-h/P1050470.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tMTowIhsI/AAAAAAAAAfo/Wl_LoWs89tQ/s400/P1050470.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443528474847905474" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tMCTaJliI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/O2y91Nh53Xk/s1600-h/P1050464.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tMCTaJliI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/O2y91Nh53Xk/s400/P1050464.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443528177060779554" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tMG8TgxhI/AAAAAAAAAfY/GVrqUqskbhI/s1600-h/P1050463.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tMG8TgxhI/AAAAAAAAAfY/GVrqUqskbhI/s400/P1050463.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443528256758269458" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tL9bPVLMI/AAAAAAAAAfI/jXkcFXxlwOM/s1600-h/P1050465.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tL9bPVLMI/AAAAAAAAAfI/jXkcFXxlwOM/s400/P1050465.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443528093263539394" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tL2u5db9I/AAAAAAAAAfA/n-EqVtA8QkU/s1600-h/P1050462.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4tL2u5db9I/AAAAAAAAAfA/n-EqVtA8QkU/s400/P1050462.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5443527978281430994" /></a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-19789461361739114882010-02-24T16:56:00.010+09:002010-02-24T17:02:32.324+09:00Some MSRA Annual Party 2010 photos<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4Tc6pDke-I/AAAAAAAAAe4/xlwMLgSUn-M/s1600-h/LB20100206A037.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4Tc6pDke-I/AAAAAAAAAe4/xlwMLgSUn-M/s400/LB20100206A037.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441717149781752802" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4Tc1GfJKGI/AAAAAAAAAew/L6N0XYidmnU/s1600-h/LB20100206A031.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4Tc1GfJKGI/AAAAAAAAAew/L6N0XYidmnU/s400/LB20100206A031.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441717054602815586" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4Tcr1mhn9I/AAAAAAAAAeo/UJl89Cv60q0/s1600-h/HZD20100206B215.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4Tcr1mhn9I/AAAAAAAAAeo/UJl89Cv60q0/s400/HZD20100206B215.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441716895451553746" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4TcnCER9kI/AAAAAAAAAeg/dOszWLwZGNM/s1600-h/LB20100206A030.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4TcnCER9kI/AAAAAAAAAeg/dOszWLwZGNM/s400/LB20100206A030.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441716812898235970" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4Tce0fFRoI/AAAAAAAAAeY/akFzxulXDKY/s1600-h/LB20100206B109.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4Tce0fFRoI/AAAAAAAAAeY/akFzxulXDKY/s400/LB20100206B109.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441716671813600898" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4TcQFc_QnI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/WfukIv4QJds/s1600-h/LB20100206B263.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4TcQFc_QnI/AAAAAAAAAeQ/WfukIv4QJds/s400/LB20100206B263.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441716418670183026" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4TcK4KnQiI/AAAAAAAAAeI/HKlYb7QV4uA/s1600-h/HZD20100206B423.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4TcK4KnQiI/AAAAAAAAAeI/HKlYb7QV4uA/s400/HZD20100206B423.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441716329204105762" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4TcEWjrCjI/AAAAAAAAAeA/3nRHy6T26Lw/s1600-h/LB20100206A125.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S4TcEWjrCjI/AAAAAAAAAeA/3nRHy6T26Lw/s400/LB20100206A125.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441716217103190578" /></a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-64134204017510574112010-02-22T14:20:00.003+09:002010-02-25T15:20:27.664+09:00My important dates 2010 version 2Mar 01 NTCIR-8 GeoTime evaluation results released<br />Mar 03 NTCIR-8 ACLIA IR4QA evaluation results released<br />Mar 04-05 IPSJ SIG{FI,DD} + IEICE LOIS [Okinawa 沖縄県青年会館]<br />Mar 12 RIAO 2010 camera-ready copies due<br />Mar 14-21 SIGIR 2010 online PC meeting<br />Mar 16 NTCIR-8 CQA pilot task data released<br />Mar 17 NTCIR-8 ACLIA overview drafts released<br />Mar 24 SIGIR 2010 acceptance notification<br />Mar 30 NTCIR-8 CQA pilot task test Q+A's released <br />Mar 31 EVIA 2010 submissions due<br />Apr 01 EVIA 2010 papers assigned to reviewers<br />Apr 01 NTCIR-8 ACLIA participant papers due<br />Apr 06 NTCIR-8 CQA runs due<br />Apr 16 EVIA 2010 reviews due<br />Apr 16 IIiX 2010 reviewers assigned<br />Apr 18 EVIA 2010 acceptance notification<br />Apr 20 NTCIR-8 CQA pilot task results released<br />Apr 23 NTCIR-8 ACLIA feedback from organisers to participants<br />Apr 28-30 RIAO 2010 [Paris]<br />May 02 NTCIR-8 CQA pilot task participants papers due<br />May 02 CLEF 2010 submissions due<br />May 06 NTCIR-8 CQA pilot task feedback from organisers to participants<br />May 10 EVIA 2010 final manuscripts due<br />May 15 NTCIR-8 final manuscripts due<br />May 16 IIiX 2010 reviews due<br />May 27 CIKM 2010 abstracts due<br />May 28 CLEF 2010 review deadline<br />Jun 3 CIKM 2010 papers due<br />Jun 15 EVIA 2010 [Tokyo]<br />Jun 15-18 NTCIR-8 [Tokyo]<br />Jul 15 CIKM 2010 acceptance notification<br />Jul 18-23 SIGIR 2010 [Geneva]<br />Aug 15 CIKM 2010 camera-ready<br />Oct 27-29 CIKM 2010 [Toronto]<br />Dec 1-3 AIRS 2010 [Taipei]tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-7715619502525361962010-02-12T14:25:00.004+09:002010-02-12T14:28:28.055+09:00CFP: CLEF 2010<I>Note that CLEF is now a conference, not just an evaluation workshop:</I><br /><br /><HR><br /><br />Call for Papers<br /><br />CLEF 2010 - Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation<br /><br />20–23 September 2010, Padua, Italy<br /><br /><A href="http://www.clef2010.org/">http://www.clef2010.org/</A><br /><br /><br />Background<br /><br />CLEF2010 is the continuation of the popular CLEF campaigns that have run for the past ten years. It will cover a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation. It will consist of two main parts: a peer-reviewed conference (20-21<br />September) on experimental evaluation, which will innovate the CLEF tradition, and a series of labs (22-23 September), which will continue the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on evaluation issues.<br /><br /><br />Aim and Scope<br /><br />The CLEF2010 conference aims at advancing the evaluation of complex multimodal and multilingual information systems in order to support individuals, organizations, and communities who design, develop, employ, and improve such systems.<br /><br />The growth of the Internet has been exponential with respect to the number of users, media, and languages used regularly for global information dissemination. Language and media barriers are no longer seen as inviolable and they are constantly crossed and mixed to provide content that can be accessed on a global scale within a multicultural and multilingual setting.<br /><br />Users need to be able to co-operate and communicate across language and media boundaries, going beyond separate search in diverse media/languages and exploiting interactions between different languages and media.<br /><br />Experimental evaluation - both laboratory and interactive - is a key to fostering the development of multilingual and multimodal information systems that address increasingly complex information needs.<br /><br />The CLEF2010 labs will continue the CLEF tradition of community-based benchmarking and will complement these with workshops on emerging issues in evaluation methodology. Lab proposals were sollicited at an earlier stage and and the 2010 lab program can be found at <A href="http://www.clef2010.org/">http://www.clef2010.org/</A>.<br /><br />At this time we invite submissions for presentation at the CLEF2010 conference. We welcome submissions on all aspects of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity.<br /><br />The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.<br /><br /><br />Topics for Discussion<br /><br />Relevant topics for the CLEF 2010 include, but are not limited to:<br /><br />- Novel methodologies for the design of evaluation tasks, especially user-centric ones;<br />- Analysis of the impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal<br />differences in interface and search design;<br />- Assessing multilinguality and multimodality in relevant application communities, e.g. digital libraries, intellectual property, medical, music, video, and social media.<br />- Alternative methods for improving and automating ground-truth creation, for example crowd-sourcing or clicklog-based;<br />- Prediction of success and satisfaction rates;<br />- Task-oriented metrics of success and failure;<br />- Evaluation of technology vs testing of scientific theories;<br />- Innovative and easy to communicate techniques for analysing the experimental results, including statistical analyses, data mining, and information visualization;<br />- Alternatives for and comparison of item-based, list-based, set-based, and session-based evaluation;<br />- Simulation (of queries, sessions, users) and information retrieval;<br />- Infrastructures for bringing automation and collaboration in the evaluation process;<br />- Component-based evaluation approaches;<br />- Evaluation and analysis using private or anonymized test data;<br />- Living laboraties and evaluating live systems.<br /><br /><br />Important Dates<br /><br />- Submission Deadline: 2 May 2010<br />- Notification of Acceptance: 11 June 2010<br />- Camera Ready: 25 June 2010<br />- Conference: 20-21 September 2010.<br /><br /><br />Format<br /><br />Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format (<A href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0</A>).<br /><br />Two types of papers are solicited:<br />- long papers: 12 pages max;<br />- short papers: 6 pages max.<br /><br />Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality.<br /><br />Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address:<br /><A href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2010">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2010</A><br /><br /><br />Organization<br /><br />Honorary Chair<br />- Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy<br /><br />General Chairs<br />- Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy<br />- Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br /><br />Programme Chairs<br />- Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy<br />- Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland<br /><br />Organization Chair<br />- Emanuele Pianta, CELCT Trento, Italy<br /><br /><br />Program Committee<br /><br />- Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country, Spain<br />- Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy<br />- Julie Berndsen, University COllege Dublin, Ireland<br />- Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark<br />- Pavel Braslavski, Yandex and Ural State Tech. University, Ural State University, Russia<br />- Chris Buckley, Sabir Research, USA<br />- Pável Calado, Superior Technical Institute, Portugal<br />- Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy<br />- Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy<br />- Charlie Clark, University of Waterloo, Canada<br />- Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA<br />- Franca Debole, Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), Italian National Research Council (CNR) , Italy<br />- J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA<br />- Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA<br />- Floriana Esposito, University of Bari, Italy<br />- Marcello Federico, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy<br />- Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg, Germany<br />- Fredric Gey, University of California, Berkeley, USA<br />- Marcos André Gonçalves, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil<br />- Julio Gonzalo, National Distance Learning University, Spain<br />- Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France<br />- Allan Hanbury, Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), Austria<br />- Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark<br />- Perla Innocenti, University of Glasgow, UK<br />- Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland<br />- Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland<br />- Theodore Kalamboukis, Athen University of Economics and Business, Greece<br />- Leonid Andreevich Kalinichenko, Institute for Problems of Informatics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia<br />- Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan<br />- Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University, Greece<br />- Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Sweden<br />- Kazuaki Kishida, Keio University, Japan<br />- Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland<br />- Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK<br />- Ray Larson, University of California, Berkeley, USA<br />- Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia, China<br />- Saturnino Luz, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland<br />- Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy<br />- Prasenjit Majumder, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India<br />- Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany<br />- Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University, USA<br />- Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, India<br />- Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy<br />- Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne , Australia<br />- Viviane Moreira Orengo, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil<br />- Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland<br />- Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada<br />- Doug Oard, University of Maryland, USA<br />- Nicola Orio, University of Padua, Italy<br />- Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece<br />- Gabriella Pasi, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy<br />- Anselmo Peñas, National Distance Learning University, Spain<br />- Vivien Petras, Humboldt University, Germany<br />- Jean-Michel Renders, Xerox Research Centre (XRCE), France<br />- Seamus Ross, University of Toronto, Canada<br />- Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK<br />- Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia, China<br />- Diana Santos, SINTEF Information and Communication Technology, Norway<br />- Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy<br />- Frederique Segond, Xerox Research Centre (XRCE), France<br />- Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy<br />- Paraic Sheridan, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Ireland<br />- Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA<br />- Alexander Sychov, Voronezh State University, Russia<br />- John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), Austria<br />- Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy<br />- Elaine Toms, Dalhousie University, Canada<br />- Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand<br />- Natalia Vassilieva, HP Labs Russia, Russia<br />- Felisa Verdejo, National Distance Learning University, Spain<br />- Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA<br />- Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII), Germany<br />- Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany<br />- Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne , Australiatetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-27734531529682381152010-02-01T19:58:00.002+09:002010-02-01T20:00:46.347+09:00My Important Dates 2010 version 1<font color="gray"><br /></font><br />Feb 01 NTCIR-8 GeoTime runs due<br />Feb 05 RIAO 2010 acceptance notification<br />Feb 08 IPSJ SIG{FI,DD} + IEICE LOIS 原稿締切<br />Feb 12 SIGIR 2010 posters due<br />Feb 26 SIGIR 2010 1st-tier reviews due<br />Mar 01 RIAO 2010 camera-ready copies due<br />Mar 01 NTCIR-8 GeoTime evaluation results released<br />Mar 03 NTCIR-8 ACLIA IR4QA evaluation results released<br />Mar 04-05 IPSJ SIG{FI,DD} + IEICE LOIS [Okinawa 沖縄県青年会館]<br />Mar 14-21 SIGIR 2010 online PC meeting<br />Mar 17 NTCIR-8 ACLIA overview drafts released<br />Mar 24 SIGIR 2010 acceptance notification<br />Mar 31 EVIA 2010 submissions due<br />Apr 01 EVIA 2010 papers assigned to reviewers<br />Apr 01 NTCIR-8 ACLIA participant papers due<br />Apr 16 EVIA 2010 reviews due<br />Apr 18 EVIA 2010 acceptance notification<br />Apr 23 NTCIR-8 ACLIA feedback from organisers to participants<br />Apr 28-30 RIAO 2010 [Paris]<br />May 02 CLEF 2010 submissions due<br />May 10 EVIA 2010 final manuscripts due<br />May 15 NTCIR-8 ACLIA final manuscripts due<br />May 28 CLEF 2010 review deadline<br />Jun 15 EVIA 2010 [Tokyo]<br />Jun 15-18 NTCIR-8 [Tokyo]<br />Jul 18-23 SIGIR 2010 [Geneva]<br />Oct 25-29 CIKM 2010 [Toronto]<br />Dec 1-3 AIRS 2010 [Taipei]tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-9312941465508316972010-01-26T11:19:00.008+09:002010-01-26T11:23:08.309+09:00MSRA Band@Shangri-La Hotel Beijing (Jan 23, 2010)Click to enlarge photo<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S15R3lQ-teI/AAAAAAAAAd4/UEqnN52D6RU/s1600-h/DSC03500.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 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href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S15RocxvLpI/AAAAAAAAAdg/np-OP0cs5Dw/s1600-h/DSC03530.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S15RocxvLpI/AAAAAAAAAdg/np-OP0cs5Dw/s400/DSC03530.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430867956016819858" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S15RiXCLDaI/AAAAAAAAAdY/CBGA2yZWlOI/s1600-h/DSC03531.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f6ifip0vaaE/S15RiXCLDaI/AAAAAAAAAdY/CBGA2yZWlOI/s400/DSC03531.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430867851395927458" /></a>tetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5515078843219804170.post-56252513356228992362010-01-20T17:19:00.006+09:002010-01-20T17:25:49.047+09:00CFP: EVIA 2010***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****<br /><br />The Third International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access<br />(EVIA 2010), a Satellite Workshop of NTCIR-8<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/</A><br /><br />June 15, 2010 at NII, Tokyo, Japan.<br />***************************************<br /><br />Information Access technologies provide the interface between<br />human information needs and digital information resources. The<br />reliable evaluation of these technologies has long been<br />recognized as central to technological development in the field.<br />As information retrieval becomes more pervasive, the forms of<br />retrieval more diverse, and retrieval tools richer, the<br />importance of effective, efficient, and innovative evaluation<br />grows as well.<br /><br />In recognition of the need for a forum dedicated to the intensive<br />discussion of evaluation issues, we have held two successful<br />International Workshops on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA<br />2007 and 2008). Proceedings and reports can be found below:<br /><br />EVIA 2007 online proceedings:<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings6/EVIA/</A><br />EVIA 2008 online proceedings:<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/toc_evia.html">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/workshop/OnlineProceedings7/toc_evia.html</A><br /><br />SIGIR Forum Report on EVIA 2007:<br /><A href="http://sigir.org/forum/2007D/2007d_sigirforum_sanderson.pdf">http://sigir.org/forum/2007D/2007d_sigirforum_sanderson.pdf</A><br />SIGIR Forum Report on EVIA 2008:<br /><A href="http://sigir.org/forum/2009J/2009j-sigirforum-sakai.pdf">http://sigir.org/forum/2009J/2009j-sigirforum-sakai.pdf</A><br /><br />Following these successes, we are happy to announce the Third<br />International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA<br />2010), to be held on June 15, 2010 (coinciding with Day 1 of the<br />NTCIR-8 Workshop Meeting) at the National Institute of<br />Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan. We invite papers addressing one<br />or more of the following topics: <br /><br />- Test collection formation, evaluation metrics, and evaluation<br /> environments<br />- Statistical issues in retrieval evaluation<br />- User studies and the evaluation of human-computer interaction<br /> in information retrieval (HCIR)<br />- Evaluation methods for multilingual, multimedia, or mobile<br /> information access<br />- Novel information access tasks and their evaluation<br />- Evaluation and assessment using implicit user feedback,<br /> crowdsourcing, living labs, or inferential methods<br />- Evaluation issues in industrial and enterprise retrieval <br /> systems<br /><br />*** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ***<br /><br />Submissions will be subject to double-blind reviewing. Accepted<br />papers will be included in the EVIA 2010 online proceedings, and<br />summarized in a report to SIGIR Forum.<br /><br />We invite submissions of regular papers (up to 9 pages) and<br />short papers (up to 5 pages).<br />Submitted papers should be in the ACM Conference style <br />(for LaTeX, use the "Option 2" style) and must be submitted<br />as pdf files. Templates are available at:<br /><A href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates">http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates</A><br />Papers exceeding the page limits will be rejected without review. <br /><br />The pdf files must be submitted via our START submission webpage.<br />A link to the submission page will be available at the EVIA<br />website in early March:<br /><A href="http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/">http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws8/EVIA-2010/</A><br /><br />*** IMPORTANT DATES ***<br /><br /><font color="red">- March 31, 2010 *submissions due*</font><br />- April 18, 2010 notification of acceptance<br />- May 10, 2010 final manuscripts due<br />- June 15, 2010 EVIA 2010@NII, Tokyo, Japan<br />- June 15-18, 2010 NTCIR-8@NII, Tokyo, Japan<br /><br />*** EVIA 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ***<br /><br />Akiko Aizawa NII Japan<br />Javed Aslam Northeastern University USA<br />Nicholas Belkin Rutgers University USA<br />Ben Carterette University of Delaware USA<br />Charlie Clarke University of Waterloo Canada<br />Georges Dupret Yahoo! Research Chile<br />Norbert Fuhr Universitaet Duisburg-Essen Germany<br />Atsushi Fujii Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan<br />Donna Harman NIST USA<br />Hideo Joho University of Tsukuba Japan<br />Gareth Jones Dublin City University Ireland<br />Noriko Kando NII Japan<br />Evangelos Kanoulas University of Sheffield UK<br />Jaana Kekalainen University of Tampere Finland<br />Mounia Lalmas University of Glasgow UK<br />Gary Geunbae Lee POSTECH Korea<br />Mun-Kew Leong National Library Board Singapore<br />Jimmy Lin University of Maryland USA<br />Chin-Yew Lin Microsoft Research Asia China<br />Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow UK<br />Carol Peters IEI-CNR Italy<br />Ian Ruthven University of Strathclyde UK<br />Tetsuya Sakai Microsoft Research Asia China<br />Mark Sanderson University of Sheffield UK<br />Falk Scholer RMIT University Australia<br />Ian Soboroff NIST USA<br />Paul Thomas CSIRO Australia<br />William Webber University of Melbourne Australia<br />Emine Yilmaz Microsoft Research Cambridge UK<br /><br />*** EVIA 2010 CO-CHAIRS ***<br /><br />Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia, China)<br /> tetsuyasakai<br />at acm.org<br />Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)<br /> m.sanderson<br />at sheffield.ac.uk <br />William Webber (University of Melbourne, Australia)<br /> wew<br />at csse.unimelb.edu.autetsuyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02803541050041541689noreply@blogger.com0