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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Hello,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are proud to invite you to the
<b>RegCom (Regulatory Compliance) task</b>, a pilot shared task under<b> NTCIR-19
</b>that aims to evaluate and advance automatic systems for <b>regulatory compliance checking</b> of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reports. In light of increasing regulatory demands and the global push for transparent and standardized
<b>ESG disclosure</b>, organizations are now under pressure to ensure their reports adhere to recognized frameworks such as the
<b>Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) guidelines</b>.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">What RegCom aims to do</span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This task invites participants to
<b>design systems</b> that align ESG content with SASB metrics, verifying whether the necessary disclosures are present and correctly formatted. The goal is to
<b>simulate real-world compliance review </b>settings through <b>two subtasks</b>: (1) full-report analysis and (2) single-page verification. Both subtasks are grounded in multilingual, multimodal, and multi-industry contexts, offering a rich and practical
benchmark for researchers and practitioners in NLP, IR, and legal-tech.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Important Information</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">When: Dec 8, 2026 - Dec 10, 2026</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Where: Tokyo, Japan</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Task Registration: June 1, 2026</span></b><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Participants' Papers Submission Due: September 1, 2026</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Final Version Due: November 1, 2026 </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">More than a benchmark,
<b>RegCom reflects the commitment to responsible, explainable AI</b> at the intersection of
<b>regulation, sustainability, and global accountability</b>.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Apple Color Emoji";color:black">👉</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">More info:
</span></b><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir19regcom/regcom?authuser=0"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir19regcom/regcom?authuser=0</span></b></a></p>
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