Second Keynote: Creating Future Values in Information Access Research through NTCIR: Reflection of the 20-Year History of Patent-Related Shared Tasks and the Way Ahead NorikoKando kando@nii.ac.jp Information and Society Research Division National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Tokyo Japan
National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Tokyo Japan
Department of Informatics Graduate University of Advanced Studies
Japan
Second Keynote: Creating Future Values in Information Access Research through NTCIR: Reflection of the 20-Year History of Patent-Related Shared Tasks and the Way Ahead 27DFAED072D76A8C6E5B534304A4D747 GROBID - A machine learning software for extracting information from scholarly documents

NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research) is a series of evaluation workshops designed to enhance the research in information access technologies, such as information retrieval, question answering, and summarization using East-Asian languages, by providing infrastructures for research and evaluation. The project started late 1997 and has the workshop in 18-month cycle. It is a community-led activity and each round of NTCIR hosts several research tracks called "tasks", which are planned and organized by groups of international researchers. This talk focuses on Patent-related tasks and reviews how each of them has evolved and impacts to the research community and the society. Finally some thoughts on the future direction will be presented.