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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
medium;">CLEF2011 is the second CLEF conference
continuing the popular CLEF campaigns. It will
cover a broad range of issues in the fields of
multilingual and multimodal information access
evaluation. It will consist 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.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
medium;">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. 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.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
medium;">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.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
medium;">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.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
medium;">We invite submissions for presentation
at the CLEF2011 conference. We welcome
submissions on all aspects of multilingual and
multimodal information access evaluation. All
submissions will be reviewed on the basis of
relevance, originality, importance, and
clarity. </div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
medium;">Relevant topics for the CLEF2010
conference include but are not limited to:</div>
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<li>Novel methodologies for the design of
evaluation tasks, especially user-centric
ones;</li>
<li>Analysis of the impact of
multilingual/multicultural/multimodal
differences in interface and search design;</li>
<li>Assessing multilinguality and
multimodality in relevant application
communities, e.g. digital libraries,
intellectual property, medical, music,
video, and social media;</li>
<li>Testing and evaluation of translation and
summaries over documents and of linked
documents in multilingual information
retrieval;</li>
<li>Benefits of multilingual information
retrieval methods for different user groups
or in different use cases, including those
relevant to the developing world;</li>
<li>Alternative methods for improving and
automating ground-truth creation, for
example crowd-sourcing or log-based;</li>
<li>Alternatives and comparison of item-based,
list-based, set-based, and session-based
evaluation;</li>
<li>Prediction of success and satisfaction
rate;</li>
<li>Task-oriented metrics of success and
failure;</li>
<li>Simulation (of queries, sessions, users)
and information retrieval;</li>
<li>Innovative and easy to communicate
techniques for analysing the experimental
results, including statistical analyses,
data mining, and information visualization;</li>
<li>Infrastructures for bringing automation
and collaboration in the evaluation process;</li>
<li>Living laboratories and evaluating live
systems;</li>
<li>Economic impact/sustainability of
multilingual and multimodal information
approaches, evaluation methodologies, and
deployed systems.</li>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
medium;">The conference proceedings will be
published in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
medium;">Authors are invited to submit
electronically original papers, which have not
been published and are not under consideration
elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format. <a
href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
medium;">Two types of papers are solicited:</div>
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<li>full papers: 12 pages max;</li>
<li>short papers: 6 pages max.</li>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
medium;">Papers will be peer-reviewed by at
least 3 members of the program committee. Papers
should be submitted in PDF format to the
following address: </div>
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href="http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/CLEF2011/servlet/Conference/">http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/CLEF2011/servlet/Conference/</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<li>May 1st, 2011 Submission deadline</li>
<li>June 10th, 2011 Notification of acceptance</li>
<li>June 17th, 2011 Camera ready versions</li>
<li>September 19th-22nd, 2011 CLEF Conference</li>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<li>Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands</li>
<li>Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain</li>
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<li>Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research, Spain</li>
<li>Jaana Kekäläinen, University of Tampere,
Finland</li>
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<li>Vivien Petras, Humboldt University,
Germany</li>
<li>Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK</li>
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<li>Emanuele Pianta, CELCT, Italy</li>
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<li>Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France</li>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<ul class="MailOutline">
<li>Pamela Forner, CELCT, Italy</li>
<li>Giovanni Moretti, CELCT, Italy</li>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<li>Richard Berendsen, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands</li>
<li>Bouke Huurnink, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands</li>
<li>Edgar Meij, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands</li>
</ul>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size:
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<li>Maristella Agosti, University of Padua</li>
<li>Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and
Information Science, Denmark</li>
<li>Pavel Braslavski, Yandex, Russia</li>
<li>Ben Carterette, University of Delaware,
USA</li>
<li>Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy</li>
<li>Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg,
Germany</li>
<li>Gareth Jones, Dublin City University,
Ireland</li>
<li>Marko Junkkari, University of Tampere,
Finland</li>
<li>Kal Järvelin, University of Tampere,
Finland</li>
<li>Noriko Kando, National Institute of
Informatics, Japan</li>
<li>Heikki Keskustalo, University of Tampere,
Finland</li>
<li>Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and
Information Science, Denmark</li>
<li>Ray Larson, University of California,
Berkeley, USA</li>
<li>Prasenjit Majumder, Dhirubhai Ambani
Institute of Information and Communication
Technology, India</li>
<li>Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University,
USA</li>
<li>Stefano Mizzarro, University of Udine,
Italy</li>
<li>Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal,
Canada</li>
<li>Carol Peters, ISTI CNR Pisa, Italy</li>
<li>Vivien Petras, Humboldt University,
Germany</li>
<li>Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde,
United Kingdom</li>
<li>Christa Womser-Hacker, University of
Hildesheim, Germany</li>
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