This is an overview of NTCIR-16, the sixteenth sesquiannual research project for evaluating information access technologies. NTCIR-16 involved various evaluation tasks related to information retrieval, natural language processing, question answering, etc. 10 tasks were organized in NTCIR-16. This paper describes an outline of NTCIR-16, which includes its organization, schedule, scope, and task designs. In addition, we introduce brief statistics of the NTCIR-16 participants. Readers should refer to individual task overview papers for their detailed descriptions and findings.
Yamamoto et al. (Tue,) studied this question.