This is an overview of the NTCIR-9 INTENT task, which comprises the Subtopic Mining and
the Document Ranking subtasks. The INTENT task attracted participating teams from seven …

This chapter introduces, in Sect. 1.1, the area of research and development of Mobile
Information Retrieval. In Sect. 1.2 it gives the motivation for this review and explains briefly …

ABSTRACT NTCIR-17 introduced the FairWeb-1 task, which evaluated web page rankings
in terms of both relevance and group fairness. The present study shows how their evaluation …

This is an overview of the NTCIR-12 MobileClick-2 task (a sequel to 1CLICK in NTCIR-9 and
NTCIR-10). In the MobileClick task, systems are expected to output a concise summary of …

This is an overview of the NTCIR-10 1CLICK-2 task (the second One Click Access task).
Given a search query, 1CLICK aims to satisfy the user with a single textual output instead of …

This is an overview of NTCIR-9, the Ninth NTCIR Workshop. It touches upon a brief history of
NTCIR, introduces the tasks run at NTCIR-9, and reports on some statistics across these …

ABSTRACT NTCIR-12 MobileClick task has been designed to rank and summarize English
queries. The primary aim of this task was to develop a system which is capable of minimizing …

This paper extends the evaluation framework of the NTCIR-9 One Click Access Task
(1CLICK-1), which required systems to return a single, concise textual output in response to …

ABSTRACT Microsoft Research Asia participated in the 1CLICK task at NTCIR-9 using two
different techniques: a statistical ranking approach and the utilization of semi-structured web …

The scientific information available on the World Wide Web (WWW) mostly comprises
mathematical equations and expressions. Searching these mathematical expressions using …