[Corpora-List] CLEF 2011 - Registrations Open

[Pamela Forner]

CLEF 2011 - Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation



19-22 September 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands



http://clef2011.org/





REGISTRATION OPEN  http://clef2011.org/index.php?page=pages/conferenceRegistration.html



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KEY DATES



Early registration deadline: June 30, 2011



Regular registration deadline: August 31, 2011



Student discounts are available only in early and regular registration



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OVERVIEW
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.
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.
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.
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.



The CLEF2011 labs continue the CLEF tradition of community-based benchmarking and will complement these with workshops on emerging issues in evaluation methodology.





Details on the program will be available soon on the CLEF 2011 web site.





ORGANIZATION



Honorary Chair

- Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy



General Chairs

- Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

- Julio Gonzalo, National University of Distance Education, Spain



Programme Chairs

- Jaana Kekäläinen, University of Tampere, Finland
- Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain



Organization Chair

- Emanuele Pianta, CELCT Trento, Italy



Lab chairs

- Vivien Petras, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

- Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK



Resource and Publicity Chair

- Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France





Looking forward to meeting you in Amsterdam, next September.



The CLEF 2011 Chairs


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Pamela Forner
CELCT (web: www.celct.it<http://www.celct.it/>)
Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies
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email: forner at celct.it<mailto:forner at celct.it>
tel.:  +39 0461 314 804
fax:  +39 0461 314 846

Secretary Phone:  +39 0461 314 870

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