Overview of the NTCIR-9 INTENT Task
Ruihua Song, Min Zhang, Tetsuya Sakai, Makoto P. Kato, Yiqun Liu, Miho Sugimoto, Qinglei Wang, Naoki Orii · 2011
This is an overview of the NTCIR-9 INTENT task, which com-prises the Subtopic Mining and the Document Ranking subtasks. The INTENT task attracted participating teams from seven differ-ent countries/regions – 16 teams for Subtopic Mining and 8 teams for Document Ranking. The Subtopic Mining subtask received 42 Chinese runs and 14 Japanese runs; the Document Ranking sub-task received 24 Chinese runs and 18 Japanese runs. We describe the subtasks, data and evaluation methods, and then report on the results.