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last update: 2007/02/09

2007/Feb./07 Announcement on paper submission
(1) "Paper for the Proceedings Due" is 2007-03-01
(2) "Camera-ready Paper for the Proceedings Due" is 2007-03-30.
(see http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws6/important_dates-en.html)
For submission method, please refer to http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws6/proceedings.html
After receiving your paper via the NTCIR-6 START system. the task organizers will check it. And, we will send an e-mail to each participants. After you receive the e-mail, please send 3 copies of hard copy version of the paper (via postal mail) to the address described at http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/add-en.html by 2007-03-30.
* It should be noted that you do NOT have to send hard copy version of your paper by 2007-03-01. It is enough that electronic version will reach to us by 2007-03-01 via the NTCIR-6 START system.

2006/Jan./29 Release of macro statistics on MAP for STAGE2
Please see eval.html on your directory at the NII server (URL, userID and password have been already assigned).

2006/Nov./29 Release of evaluation results for STAGE1
Relevance assessment has been completed. The participants submitting search results at STAGE1 can download your evaluation results for STAGE1 from eval.html on your directory at the NII server (URL, userID and password have been already assigned).

2006/Sep./11 Submission guideline for STAGE2 becomes available.

2006/Aug./17 Additional Announcement: On abnormal records in CIRB010, CIRB020 and Yomiuri(98-99).
In NTCIR-4 workshop, we found abnormal records (having no <TEXT> content) in CIRB010, CIRB020 and Yimiuri(98-99). For Stage 2 in NTCIR-6 CLIR task, the participants again should treat these records carefully. For detail, please click here.

2006/Aug./05 Manual for Stage 2 is available and the deadline of submission for Stage 2 is extended.
Please read carefully the manual for Stage 2. The new deadline of subimitting search results for Stage 2 is Sep. 20 (Wed.).

2006/July/31 Annoucement: Error is detected in our Format Checker
It is regretted that an error is detected in our format checker for files of search results.
If your search runs are on Chinese 2000-01 doc sets, please re-download the format checker program from our web site (the procedure is the same as before).

2006/July/15 Submission guideline becomes available.

2006/July/13 Annoucement: Please stop using the Korean topic file that the organizers released on July 1st. (We find numbering errors in the file)

2006/July/10 Format Checker is available
Format checker for files of search results is now available on the download page for topics.

2006/July/06 Announcement: Errors in Chinese topic files
We find erros in our Chinese topic files.
(1)The PDF file does not contain embedded Chinese font data.
(2) <REL> filed in the 026 topic is broken in the .txt file (also in the .pdf file).
The organizers modify these Chinese file and put them on the download page.
Please download them, i.e.,
CLIRFormalRunTopic-CH.txt and CLIRFormalRunTopic-CH.pdf,
again. We are so sorry for your inconvenient.

2006/July/01 Topic release at Stage 1 starts
For detail, please see an e-mail from task organizers.

2006/Jun./12 Announcement
Document release has started. If NTCIR office receives your agreement form, information for downloading document data (user ID and so on) will be sent to you by e-mail.

2006/Jun./08 Announcement
NTCIR-6 task registration was extended to June 23.
2006/May/11 Release of New Schdule
2006/Apr./17 Release of Call for Pariticipation (CFP)


Important Schedule (presented on 2006/Jun./08)
2006/04/17: Start of Registration
2006/06/01: Document Sets Release
2006/06/23: Registration Due
2006/07/01: Topic Release
at Stage 1: Usual Ad Hoc Searches*
2006/08/01: Submission of Search Results at Stage 1
2006/08/01: Topic Release at Stage 2: Cross-Collection Analysis*
2006/09/20: Submission of Search Results at Stage 2
2006/11/29: Delivery of Evaluation Results for Stage 1

2007/03/01: Paper Due (for Proceedings)

2007/05/15 to 18: NTCIR Workshop 6 (Conference in Tokyo)
see also : http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-ws6/important_dates-en.html

*It should be noted that participants will be asked to submit search results twice in total.

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