NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is a series of evaluation conferences that mainly focus on information access with East Asian languages and English. The first NTCIR conference (NTCIR-1) took place in August/September 1999; the latest NTCIR-18 conference will be held in June 2025. Research teams from all over the world participate in one or more NTCIR tasks to advance the state of the art and to learn from one another’s experiences.

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