Overview of the Third NTCIR Workshop.
Noriko Kando · NTCIR · 2002
This paper introduces the third NTCIR Workshop, which is the latest in a series of evaluation workshops designed to enhance research in information access technologies, including information retrieval, automatic text summarization, question answering, etc., by providing large-scale test collections and a forum for researchers. In the third Workshop, document collections were diversified in the aspects of length, genres, and languages. The focus of evaluation was also diversified from document-level retrieval to processing on units smaller than document and technologies supporting users to utilize information in the documents. The purpose of this paper is to serve as an introduction to the research described in detail in the rest of this volume.