This is an overview of NTCIR-17, the seventeenth sesquiannual research project for evaluating information access technologies. NTCIR-17 involved various evaluation tasks related to information retrieval, natural language processing, question answering, etc. 9 tasks were organized in NTCIR-17. This paper describes an outline of NTCIR-17, which includes its organization, schedule, scope, and task designs. In addition, we introduce brief statistics of the NTCIR-17 participants. Readers should refer to individual task overview papers for their detailed descriptions and findings.
Yamamoto et al. (Tue,) studied this question.