Searchplex ID Retrieval terminology registry

Evaluation Program

NTCIR

Canonical ID https://id.searchplex.net/ntcir/

The NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research, an evaluation program and conference series for information-access technologies.

Also called

  • NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research

Scope

NTCIR has supported shared evaluation tasks for information retrieval, cross-language information access, question answering, summarization, patent retrieval, and related information-access problems, with strong historical focus on East Asian languages and contexts.

Not equivalent to

  • NTCIR is not CLEF. NTCIR and CLEF are distinct evaluation programs with different communities, histories, and task emphases.
  • NTCIR is not Test Collection. NTCIR is an evaluation program and conference series; a test collection is an evaluation resource produced or used by specific tasks.
  • NTCIR is not TREC. NTCIR and TREC are distinct evaluation programs, though both organize shared information-retrieval evaluation tasks.

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