NTCIR-12 MobileClick-2 · 01/Aug./2014: Early draft Task overview release 15/Sep./2014: Draft paper submission Due 01/Nov./2014: All camera-ready paper Due 09-12/Dec./2014: NTCIR-11

NTCIR-12 MobileClick-2

Makoto P. Kato (Kyoto University), Virgil Pavlu (Northeastern University),

Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University), andTakehiro Yamamoto (Kyoto University)

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NTCIR-12 Schedule20/Jan./2016: Task Registration Due

06/Jan./2016: Document Set Release

Jan.-May/2016: Dry Run

Mar.-July/2016: Formal Run

01/Aug./2016: Evaluation Results Due

01/Aug./2016: Task overview release

15/Sep./2016: Paper submission Due

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09-12/Dec./2016: NTCIR-11 Conference

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20/Jan./2014: Task Registration Due





01/Aug./2014: Early draft Task overview release

15/Sep./2014: Draft paper submission Due

01/Nov./2014: All camera-ready paper Due


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Goal of MobileClickProvide Direct and Immediate

Mobile Information Access

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What’s new?• Two subtasks for En/Ja

• iUnits provided, not extracted• Instant feedback• Leader board

• Given a query and a set of iUnits,rank them based on their estimated importanceNote: iUnits are information pieces relevant to a given query

iUnit Ranking Subtask

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iUnit

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Task Registration Due 20/Jun./2016

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Input: Query

Input: iUnit setiUnit

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Output: iUnit list

nDCG0.5

Predict the importance of strings rather than documentsChallenge

• Given a query, a set of iUnits, and a set of subtopics,generate a two-layered summary

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NewsScheduleTasks

2nd layer20/Jan./2016: Task Registration Due





01/Aug./2016: Task overview release

15/Sep./2016: Paper submission Due

01/Nov./2016: All paper Due


Output: Two-layered summaryEvaluation metric

designed for mobile

information access

Lay out iUnits so that any types of users can be immediately satisfied (similar to the IMine task)

Challenge

Q. When can we get our evaluation result?A. Right after you submit your run!

Leader Board System

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Got a result Impressive result!

Submission

Feedback

• Evaluation for training queries from Apr 2015• Evaluation for test queries from Aug 2015

Leader board

• Those who are interested in– Mobile information access– Intent detection– Diversification– Summarization– Q&A– Nugget-based evaluation

• Those who participated in– 1CLICK tasks– INTENT, IMine tasks– RITE tasks

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Month Event

Apr, 2015 First CFPEvaluation system for training queries

Jun, 2015 Registration due

Aug, 2015 Test query releaseEvaluation system for training queries

Dec, 2015 Run submission due

Mar, 2016 Participant paper submission due

Jun, 2016 NTCIR-12 Conference

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MobileClick-2Provide Direct and Immediate Mobile

Information AccessApr 2015

Evaluation system for training queries open athttp://www.mobileclick.org/

Aug 2015 - Dec 2015Real-time evaluation

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NTCIR-12 MobileClick-2 · 01/Aug./2014: Early draft Task overview release 15/Sep./2014: Draft paper submission Due 01/Nov./2014: All camera-ready paper Due 09-12/Dec./2014: NTCIR-11