NTCIR-9 runs seven tasks: Intent (INTENT), Recognizing Inference in TExt (RITE), Geotemporal Information Retrieval (GeoTime), IR for Spoken Documents (SpokenDoc), Cross-Lingual Link Discovery (CrossLink), Interactive Visual Exploration (Vis-Ex) and Patent Machine Translation (PatentMT) Hideo Joho and I are working as the evaluation co-chairs of NTCIR-9. Also, I am one of the task organisers of INT