27.1601, Calls: Applied Ling/Portugal

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Subject: 27.1601, Calls: Applied Ling/Portugal

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Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 11:28:32
From: Birger Larsen [birger at hum.aau.dk]
Subject: CLEF 2016: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum

Full Title: CLEF 2016: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 
Short Title: CLEF2016 

Date: 05-Sep-2016 - 08-Sep-2016
Location: Évore, Portugal 
Contact Person: Paulo Quaresma
Meeting Email: pq at uevora.pt
Web Site: http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 24-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

CLEF 2016: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and
Interaction
5-8 September 2016, Évora - Portugal
http://clef2016.clef-initiative.eu/ 

CLEF 2016 consists of an independent peer-reviewed conference on a broad range
of issues in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access
evaluation, and a set of labs and workshops designed to test different aspects
of mono and cross-language Information Retrieval systems.

Together, the conference and the lab series will maintain and expand upon the
CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on evaluation
issues.

Final Call for Papers: 

The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any
modality and language. The conference is teamed up with a series of workshops 
presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation. CLEF 2016 is the
7th year of the CLEF Conference and the 17th year of the CLEF initiative as a
forum for IR Evaluation. The CLEF conference has a clear focus on experimental
IR as done at the evaluation forums (CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval,
RomIP, SemEval, TAC, ...) with special attention to the challenges of
multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search. We invite submissions
on significant new insights demonstrated on the resulting IR test collections,
on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, as well as on
concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield/TREC/CLEF paradigm.

Topics:

Relevant topics for the CLEF 2016 Conference include but are not limited to:
- Information Access in any language or modality: Information retrieval, image
retrieval, question answering, search interfaces and design, infrastructures,
etc.
- Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical results in
the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data
analysis.
- Evaluation Initiatives: Conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection
of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle.
- Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools,
component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, 
  impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc.
- Technology Transfer: Economic impact/sustainability of information access
approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc.
- Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation: the interactive evaluation of
IR systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces,
novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc.
- Specific Application Domains: Information access and its evaluation in
application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social
media, expert search, health information, legal documents, patents, news,
books, plants, etc.

Format:

Authors are invited to submit original papers, which have not been published
and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

Two types of papers are solicited:

- Long papers: 12 pages max. Aimed to report complete research works.
- Short papers: 6 pages max. Position papers, new evaluation proposals,
developments and applications, etc.

Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee.
Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. Papers
should be submitted in PDF format to the following address:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2016

Dates (submission deadlines extended)
- Submission of Long Papers: April 24, 2016
- Submission of Short Papers: May 1, 2016
- Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2016
- Camera Ready Copy due: June 17, 2016
- Conference: September 5-8, 2016

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