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You will find below a reminder for the CFP for the third evaluation campaign
in cross-language information retrieval, CLEF.

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C A L L  F O R PARTICIPATION
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Subject: CLEF 2002, Cross Language Evaluation Forum
Web-site:  http://www.clef-campaign.org

The CLEF series of system evaluation campaigns aims at promoting
research and development in mono- and cross-language information retrieval
for European languages.

Registration is now open for CLEF 2002.

The main track in CLEF 2002 tests multilingual IR systems. Additional tracks
will offer evaluation for bilingual and monolingual (non-English) systems on
general-purpose and scientific test collections. There will also be a track
testing
interactive cross-language systems.

The CLEF test collection for 2002 consists of a multilingual corpus of
newspaper
and newswire documents for English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
and Finnish plus collections of scientific documents in French and German.
A standard set of topic statements from which participating systems can derive
the queries will be released in all seven document languages plus many more
including Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Data Release  1 February 2002
Topic Release - 1 April 2002
Submission of runs by participants - 15 June 2002
Release of relevance assessments and individual results  1 August 2002
Submission of paper for Working Notes  1 September 2002
Workshop  19-20 September 2002, Rome, Italy (in conjunction with ECDL 2002)

For full details on the CLEF Agenda and Task Description for 2002 and
instructions on
How to Participate, see http://www.clef-campaign.org

For further information, contact:

Carol Peters - IEI-CNR
Tel: +39 050 315 2987
Fax: +39 050 315 2810
E-mail: carol at iei.pi.cnr.it.