The IASL research team led by Dr. Wen-Lian Hsu, Director and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Information Science, has won the first prize in NTCIR-10 Recognizing Inference in TExt Task (NTCIR-10 RITE). This is another great achievement for IASL research team after the success in the NTCIR-9 RITE and previous Chinese Question Answering competitions. Recognizing Inference in TExt (RITE) addresses text understanding needs in various NLP/Information Access research areas by evaluating systems which can automatically detect entailment, paraphrase, and contradiction in texts written in Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Traditional Chinese. The Conference of NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research (NTCIR) has been regarded as one of the most important information retrieval event in Asian language.
In NTCIR-10, RITE is the largest task, with 215 runs from 28 teams which all come from outstanding international academic affiliations. The solutions from IASL research team were awarded the first prize in all traditional Chinese tracks, and the second place in simplified Chinese multiple-classification tracks. With a long period of development, the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, has occupied a leading position in various Chinese NLP research areas.