ELRA News - CLEF2004

[Magali Jeanmaire]

(Apologies for multiple postings)
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CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM

ELRA is happy to announce that registration for CLEF 2004
evaluation campaign is now open.

CLEF 2004 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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The CLEF series of system evaluation campaigns aims at
promoting research and development in Cross-Language
Information Retrieval.

Registration is now open for CLEF 2004.

The objective of CLEF 2004 will be to test different aspects of
mono- and cross-language information retrieval system performance.
There will be eight tracks this year:

a/ Multilingual Information Retrieval
b/ Bilingual Information Retrieval
c/ Monolingual (non-English) Information Retrieval
d/ Mono- and Cross-Language IR for Scientific Collections (GIRT)
e/ Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (iCLEF)
f/ Multiple Language Question Answering (QAatCLEF)
g/ Cross-language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)
h/ Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval (CL-SDR)

IMPORTANT DATES:
- Data Release - from 15 February 2004
- Topic Release - from 15 March 2004
- Submission of Runs by Participants - 15 May 2004 (may vary slightly
for some tracks)
- Release of relevance assessments and individual results - from 15 July 2004
- Submission of paper for Working Notes - 15 August 2004
- Workshop - 16-17 September (in conjunction with ECDL 2004)

For full details on the CLEF Agenda and Task Description for 2004 and
instructions on How to Participate, see http://www.clef-campaign.org

For further information, contact:
Carol Peters - ISTI-CNR
Tel: +39 050 315 2987
Fax: +39 050 315 2810
E-mail: carol.peters at isti.cnr.it


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