Conf: CLEF 2006

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:07:29 +0100
From: Christelle Ayache <ayache at elda.org>
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20060317165232.025c7c10 at pop.easynet.fr>
X-url: http://www.clef-campaign.org


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CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM

CLEF 2006 - FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The CLEF series of system evaluation campaigns aims at promoting
research into the design and development of user-friendly,
multilingual, multimodal retrieval systems.

Registration for CLEF 2006 is now open.

The objective of CLEF 2006 is to test different aspects of mono- and
cross-language information retrieval system performance. There are
eight tracks this year:

1. Multilingual Document Retrieval on News Collections (Ad-Hoc)
2. Mono- and Cross-Language Information Retrieval on Structured Scientific 
Data (Domain-Specific)
3. Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (iCLEF)
4. Multiple Language Question Answering (QA at CLEF)
5. Cross-language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)
6. Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval (CL-SR)
7. Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF)
8. Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)

IMPORTANT DATES:

Data Release - from 15 February 2006
Topic Release - from 1 April 2006
Submission of Runs by Participants - from 15 May 2006
Release of relevance assessments and individual results - from 15 July 2006
Submission of paper for Working Notes - 15 August 2006 Workshop - 20-22 
September (in conjunction with ECDL 2006)

TEST COLLECTIONS

The CLEF 2006 multilingual corpora include:

- news documents in 12 European languages
- social science databases in German and Russian
- photographic and medical image collections with text and/or annotations 
in several languages
- spontaneous conversational speech in English and Czech
- multilingual collection of web documents from European governmental sites

For full details on the CLEF Agenda and Task Description for 2006 and 
instructions on How to Participate, see http://www.clef-campaign.org

For further information, contact:
Carol Peters - ISTI-CNR
Tel: +39 050 315 2987
Fax: +39 050 315 2810
E-mail: carol.peters at isti.cnr.it

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