[Asis-l] Asis-l Digest, Vol 71, Issue 23

Fri Aug 27 09:29:39 EDT 2010

ASIS-Listers,

This looks like a great conference on data retrieval measures with multilingual (and likely multimodal) aspects. 

Please pardon my plebian limitations, but will this CLEF 2010 conference also be recorded & put online? Will there be an English version?

Could someone please let me know of similar orgs/resources such as the most cited journals and relevant listservs for these topics especially with the statistical analyses?

thanks,
Kim Edwin
Library of Congress
Geography & Map
202-707-8514

Disclaimer: Opinions & facts are not necessarily of the Library of Congress.

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Today's Topics:

   1. Regular Registration Deadline August 31st is Approaching -
      Call for Participation CLEF 2010, 20?23 September 2010, Padua,
      Italy (Nicola Ferro)
   2. 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC10)
      (Richard Hill)

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:51:46 +0200
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	Approaching - Call for Participation CLEF 2010, 20?23 September 2010,
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CLEF 2010 - Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation

20?23 September 2010, Padua, Italy

http://www.clef2010.org/

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KEY DATES

 Regular registration deadline: August 31, 2010

 Student discounts are available only in regular registration.

REGISTRATION

http://www.clef2010.org/index.php?page=pages/registrationVenue.html

PROGRAM:

http://www.clef2010.org/index.php?page=pages/schedule.html

FLYER:

http://www.clef2010.org/resources/download/clef2010-flyer-final.pdf

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OVERVIEW

CLEF2010 is the continuation of 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 (20-21 September) on experimental evaluation, which innovates the CLEF tradition, and a series of labs (22-23 September), which continue the CLEF tradition of community-based evaluation and discussion on evaluation issues.

The CLEF2010 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 CLEF2010 labs continue the CLEF tradition of community-based benchmarking and will complement these with workshops on emerging issues in evaluation methodology. 

KEYNOTE TALKS (http://www.clef2010.org/index.php?page=pages/keynotes.html)

* IR Between Science and Engineering, and the Role of Experimentation
  Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

* Retrieval Evaluation in Practice
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain

ACCEPTED PAPERS (http://www.clef2010.org/index.php?page=pages/acceptedPapers.html)

* Creating a Persian-English Comparable Corpus
  Homa Baradaran Hashemi, Azadeh Shakery, and Heshaam Faili

* Tie-breaking Bias: Effect of an Uncontrolled Parameter on Information Retrieval Evaluation
  Guillaume Cabanac, Gilles Hubert, Mohand Boughanem, and Claude Chrisment

* A New Approach for Cross-Language Plagiarism Analysis
  Rafael Corezola Pereira, Viviane P. Moreira, and Renata Galante

* Evaluating Information Extraction
  Andrea Esuli and Fabrizio Sebastiani

* Which Log for which Information? Gathering Multilinguality Data from Different Log File Types
  Maria G?de, Vivien Petras, and Juliane Stiller

* Automated Component-Level Evaluation: Present and Future
  Allan Hanbury and Henning M?ller

* MapReduce for information retrieval evaluation: ?Let's quickly test this on 12 TB of data?
  Djoerd Hiemstra and Claudia Hauff

* Validating Query Simulators: An Experiment Using Commercial Searches and Purchases
  Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke and, Marc Bron

* A Dictionary- and Corpus-Independent Statistical Lemmatizer for Information Retrieval in Low Resource Languages
  Aki Loponen and Kalervo J?rvelin

* Examining the Robustness of Evaluation Metrics for Patent Retrieval with Incomplete Relevance Judgements
  Walid Magdy and Gareth Jones

* On the Evaluation of Entity Profiles
  Maarten de Rijke, Krisztian Balog, Toine Bogers, and Antal van den Bosch

* Using Parallel corpora for Multilingual(Multi-Document) Summarisation Evaluation
  Marco Turchi, Josef Steinberger, Ralf Steinberger, and Mijail Kabadjov

PANELS (http://www.clef2010.org/index.php?page=pages/panels.html)

* A PROMISE for Experimental Evaluation
  Chair: Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

* The Four Ladies of Experimental Evaluation
  Chair: Donna Harman, NIST, USA 

LABS AND WORKSHOPS (http://www.clef2010.org/index.php?page=pages/labs.html)

* CLEF-IP: A benchmarking activity on intellectual property.

* ImageCLEF: A benchmarking activity on image retrieval.

* PAN: A benchmarking activity on plagiarism and Wikipedia vandalism detection.

* RespubliQA: A benchmarking activity on question answering using multilingual political data.

* WePS: A benchmarking activity on web people search.

* CriES: A workshop aimed at exploring the evaluation of searching for expertise in social media.

* LogCLEF: A workshop aimed at exploring methodologies for studying search engine log files.

Further details on the program, such as invited talks and panels, will be available soon on the CLEF 2010 Web site.

ORGANIZATION

Honorary Chair
- Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy

General Chairs
- Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
- Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Programme Chairs
- Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
- Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland

Lab Chairs
- Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
- Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA

Organization Chair
- Emanuele Pianta, Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies (CELCT), Italy

Resource Chair
- Khalid Choukri, Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), France

REGISTRATION

http://www.clef2010.org/index.php?page=pages/registrationVenue.html

Regular registration deadline: August 31, 2010

Student discounts are available only in regular registration.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Padua, next September.

The CLEF 2010 Chairs

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:30:05 -0400
From: "Richard Hill" <rhill at asis.org>
Subject: [Asis-l] 6th International Digital Curation Conference
	(IDCC10)
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Please post:

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6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC10) 

?Participation & Practice: Growing the curation community through the data decade? 

6 ? 8 December 2010, Chicago, USA 

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We are pleased to announce that the date for poster and demo submissions for IDCC10 has been extended. The Call will now close at 1700 BST (that's 1600 UTC, 1800 CEST, 12pm EDT, 9am PDT) on Monday 13 September 2010 and authors will be notified of acceptance by 1 October. 

The submission process is very simple, go straight to the online tool at https://www.conftool.net/dcc2010/ and describe your poster or demo proposal. 

Details of the draft programme can be found at:- 

http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/conferences/6th-international-digital-curation-conference/programme 

Conference registration will open on 1 September 2010. 

Sent on behalf of IDCC10 Programme Committee Co-chaired by Kevin Ashley - Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), Liz Lyon - Associate Director of the DCC, Allen Renear and Melissa Cragin - Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois, Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of CNI. 

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6th International Digital Curation Conference 

Chicago, 6-8 December 2010 

www.dcc.ac.uk 

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