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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>CLEF 2011 - Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>19–22 September 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://clef2011.org/"><span lang=EN-US>http://clef2011.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>REGISTRATION OPEN </span><a href="http://clef2011.org/index.php?page=pages/conferenceRegistration.html"><span lang=EN-US>http://clef2011.org/index.php?page=pages/conferenceRegistration.html</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>******************************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>KEY DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Early registration deadline: June 30, 2011 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Regular registration deadline: August 31, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Student discounts are available only in early and regular registration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>******************************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>OVERVIEW<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>CLEF2011 is the second CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns that have run for the past ten years. It covers a broad range of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation. It consists of two main parts: a peer-reviewed conference on research papers, and a series of labs, which will continue the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on evaluation issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>The CLEF2011 conference aims at advancing the evaluation of complex multimodal and multilingual information systems in order to support individuals, organizations, and communities who design, develop, employ, and improve such systems. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>The growth of the Internet has been exponential with respect to the number of users, media, and languages used regularly for global information dissemination. Language and media barriers are no longer seen as inviolable and they are constantly crossed and mixed to provide content that can be accessed on a global scale within a multicultural and multilingual setting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>Users need to be able to co-operate and communicate across language and media boundaries, going beyond separate search in diverse media/languages and exploiting interactions between different languages and media.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Consolas'>Experimental evaluation — both laboratory and interactive — is a key to fostering the development of multilingual and multimodal information systems that address increasingly complex information needs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The CLEF2011 labs continue the CLEF tradition of community-based benchmarking and will complement these with workshops on emerging issues in evaluation methodology. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Details on the program will be available soon on the CLEF 2011 web site.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>ORGANIZATION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Honorary Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>General Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- Julio Gonzalo, National University of Distance Education, Spain</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Programme Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- Jaana Kekäläinen, University of Tampere, Finland <br>- Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Organization Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- Emanuele Pianta, CELCT Trento, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Lab chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- Vivien Petras, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Resource and Publicity Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Looking forward to meeting you in Amsterdam, next September.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The CLEF 2011 Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>================================</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>Pamela Forner<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>CELCT (web: </span><a href="http://www.celct.it/" title="http://www.celct.it"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>www.celct.it</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>Via alla Cascata 56/c </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>38100 Povo – TRENTO –</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><ns0:country-region><ns0:place><span style='color:navy'>Italy</span></ns0:place></ns0:country-region><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>email: </span><a href="mailto:forner@celct.it" title="mailto:fordyce@celct.it"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>forner@celct.it</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'><br></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>tel.: +39 0461 314 804</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>fax: +39 0461 314 846</span><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'>Secretary Phone: +39 0461 314 870</span><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>