[Corpora-List] Interactive CLEF 2003 -- Call for Participation

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

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Registration is open to participate in the CLEF 2003 interactive
evaluation task. Check the participation instructions here:

http://terral.lsi.uned.es/iCLEF/2003/guidelines.html

iCLEF (interactive Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared
evaluation task devoted to the study of user-oriented aspects of
Cross-Language and Multilingual Information Retrieval. We have already
carried out two successful editions of iCLEF: in iCLEF 2001, we
focused on cross-language document selection issues, and in iCLEF 2002
we focused on query formulation, translation and refinement issues.

This research draws upon the general CLEF (Cross-Language Evaluation
Forum) evaluation effort, profiting from the CLEF test suite (a
comparable collection of newspaper and newswire documents in eight
european languages) and the CLEF infrastructure for topic creation and
distributed native language assessment in all languages covered by
the collection.

So far, eight different experiments have been undertaken by research
groups in five countries, involving over 60 users, 6 european
languages (French, English, German, Spanish, Finnish and Swedish) and
hundreds of controlled searching sessions. These experiments have
provided valuable insights into research issues such as fast
alternatives to Machine Translation for document selection, the role
of user-assisted query translation or the role of phrase
identification for automatic translation and user feedback. Papers
describing the outcome of previous iCLEF experiments can be found in
the CLEF 2002 and CLEF 2001 working notes at http://www.clef-campaign.org


For further information, e-mail the task coordinators:


Douglas Oard (University of Maryland), oard at glue.umd.edu

Julio Gonzalo (UNED), julio at lsi.uned.es