Overview of the NTCIR-9 INTENT Task
- Ruihua Song ,
- Min Zhang ,
- Tetsuya Sakai ,
- Makoto P. Kato ,
- Yiqun Liu ,
- Miho Sugimoto ,
- Qinglei Wang ,
- Naoki Orii
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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.