Noriko Kando National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo [email protected] Abstract: This paper introduces activities of the cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) systems evaluation in the NTCIR (NII-NACSIS Test Collection for Information Retrieval and Text Processing Technologies) project and suggests several axes as a framework describing the nature of CLIR experiments. Finally it menti...

Hummingbird submitted ranked result sets for the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Single Language Information Retrieval subtasks of the Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Task of the 5th NII-NACSIS Test Collection for IR Systems Workshop (NTCIR-5). For short Chinese (title) queries, a decompounded wordbased approach produced higher (statistically significant) mean average precision and first relev...

Computerization in health care is rapidly advancing and is improving patient safety (eg, computerized physician order entry decreases the frequency of medical errors) and practitioner effectiveness and efficiency. Computerization and other developing technologies raise concern about the privacy of health information. In 1996 Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Ac...

This exploratory and descriptive research compares the policy-making processes and policy recommendations regarding universal service and universal access developed by the U.S. National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIIAC) and the Canadian Information Highway Advisory Council (IHAC) in conjunction with related federal government agencies. respectively, the Councils were charged w...

We describe evaluation experiments conducted by submitting retrieval runs for the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Single Language Information Retrieval subtasks of the Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) Task of the 6th NII Test Collection for IR Systems Workshop (NTCIR-6). We show that a Generalized Success@10 measure exposes a downside of the blind feedback technique that is overlooked by...

This volume is the formal record of more than a year of activities of the third NII Test Collection for Information Retrieval (NTCIR) Workshop. Based on two preceding successes of NTCIR-I in 1998-1999 and NTCIR-II in 2000, this third Workshop could have marked another milestone in the history of NII research activities. Since the foundation of the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in 2000...

The Veterans Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has a long, successful, and interesting history of using information technology to meet its mission. Each medical center is computerized to a degree that surprises the uninitiated. For example, medical documentation and ordering are computerized at every facility. A sophisticated national infrastructure has been devel...

On behalf of National Institute of Informatics, I would like to express our gratitude for the efforts and the collaboration of those who participated in the fourth NII Test Collection for Information Retrieval (NTCIR-4) Workshop. This volume is the formal record of research activities of NTCIR-4 meeting, 2-4 June, 2004, in which the final reports on the participants’ research activities since J...

background: assessment of policies and determining their challenges are necessary to improve and reform health systems. family physician and rural insurance policies have been the second important phase of changes in health services provided in iranian villages and towns with populations under 20,000. this study aimed to identify the challenges of implementing these policies in kerman province,...