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Title
Evaluating information retrieval and access tasks : NTCIR's legacy of research impact / Tetsuya Sakai, Douglas W. Oard, Noriko Kando, editors.
ISBN
9789811555541 (electronic bk.)
9811555540 (electronic bk.)
9789811555558 (print)
9811555559
9789811555565 (print)
9811555567
9811555532
9789811555534
Imprint
Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-981-15-5554-1 doi
10.1007/978-981-15-5
Call Number
ZA3075
Dewey Decimal Classification
025.04
Summary
This open access book summarizes the first two decades of the NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research (NTCIR). NTCIR is a series of evaluation forums run by a global team of researchers and hosted by the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. The book is unique in that it discusses not just what was done at NTCIR, but also how it was done and the impact it has achieved. For example, in some chapters the reader sees the early seeds of what eventually grew to be the search engines that provide access to content on the World Wide Web, todays smartphones that can tailor what they show to the needs of their owners, and the smart speakers that enrich our lives at home and on the move. We also get glimpses into how new search engines can be built for mathematical formulae, or for the digital record of a lived human life. Key to the success of the NTCIR endeavor was early recognition that information access research is an empirical discipline and that evaluation therefore lay at the core of the enterprise. Evaluation is thus at the heart of each chapter in this book. They show, for example, how the recognition that some documents are more important than others has shaped thinking about evaluation design. The thirty-three contributors to this volume speak for the many hundreds of researchers from dozens of countries around the world who together shaped NTCIR as organizers and participants. This book is suitable for researchers, practitioners, and students--anyone who wants to learn about past and present evaluation efforts in information retrieval, information access, and natural language processing, as well as those who want to participate in an evaluation task or even to design and organize one.
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Includes index.
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Open access.
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Series
Information retrieval series ; 43.
Chapter 1. Graded Relevance
Chapter 2. Experiments on Cross-Language Information Retrieval using Comparable Corpora of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Languages
Chapter 3. Text Summarization Challenge
Chapter 4. Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval
Chapter 5. Multi-Modal Summarization
Chapter 6. Opinion Analysis Corpora Across Languages
Chapter 7. Patent Translation
Chapter 8. Component-Based Evaluation for Question Answering
Chapter 9. Temporal Information Access
Chapter 10. SogouQ
Chapter 11. Evaluation of Information Access with Smartphones
Chapter 12. Mathematical Information Retrieval
Chapter 13. Experiments in Lifelog Organisation and Retrieval at NTCIR
Chapter 14. The Future of Information Retrieval Evaluation.
