Preface from the Dean

From the Dean.

Recently, I was walking though the front hallway of Weiskotten Hall late in the evening, thinking about all the things I had to do in the next day, and looked up from my worry to see something I had missed after 21 years at Upstate. I am not sure how I missed it since it’s 3 X 6 feet, hangs on the wall and is immortalized in bronze and 4 inch letters, but I did. When I saw it, it stopped me in ...

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PREFACE

Preface from the Organizing Chair

On behalf of National Institute of Informatics, I would like to express our gratitude for the efforts and the collaboration of those who participated in the fourth NII Test Collection for Information Retrieval (NTCIR-4) Workshop. This volume is the formal record of research activities of NTCIR-4 meeting, 2-4 June, 2004, in which the final reports on the participants’ research activities since J...

Preface from the Program Chair

The Second NTCIR Workshop was the second in a series of evaluation workshops designed to enhance research in Japanese and Asian language text retrieval and related text processing technology such as summarization and extraction. The participating groups enrolled for the Workshop by 31 July 2000 and the results were presented at the Meeting, held in Tokyo, 7-9 March 2001. It was the first challe...