[Asis-l] CLEF 2013 Valencia Spain - Early Registration Now Open

[Pamela Forner]

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CLEF 2013 Registration is now open!

CLEF 2013: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum



Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization



23-26 September 2013, Valencia, Spain

Register now at http://www.clef2013.org/index.php?page=Pages/conferenceRegistration.html

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KEY DATES

Early registration deadline: June 30, 2013

Regular registration deadline: July 31, 2013


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KEYNOTE

Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA

Evangelos Kanoulas, Google Zurich, Switzerland


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VENUE

Universitat Politècnica de València - Nexus building http://www.clef2013.org/index.php?page=Pages/venue.html

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OVERVIEW

CLEF 2013 is the fourth CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks.
Building on the format first introduced in 2010, CLEF 2013 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.

EVALUATION LABS and WORKSHOP


·         CHiC - Cultural Heritage in CLEF : a benchmarking activity to investigate systematic and large-scale evaluation of cultural heritage digital libraries and information access systems



·         CLEFeHealth: a benchmarking activity aiming at developing processing methods and resources to enrich difficult-to-understand health text as well as their evaluation setting



·         CLEF-IP - Retrieval in the Intellectual Property Domain : a benchmarking activity to investigate IR techniques in the patent domain



·         ImageCLEF - Cross Language Image Annotation and Retrieval:  a benchmarking activity on the experimental evaluation of image classification and retrieval, focusing on the combination of textual and visual evidence



·         INEX - INitiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval:  builds evaluation benchmarks for search with rich structure - such as document structure, semantic metadata, entities, or genre/topical structure - as of increasing importance on the web and in professional search.



·         PAN - Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse:  a benchmarking activity on uncovering plagiarism, authorship and social software misuse



·         QA4MRE - Question Answering for Machine Reading Evaluation:  a benchmarking activity on the evaluation of machine reading systems through question answering and reading comprehension tests



·         QALD-3 - Question Answering over Linked Data:  a benchmarking activity on question answering over linked data



·         RepLab 2013:  second CLEF lab on Online Reputation Management



·         CLEF-ER - Entity Recognition @ CLEF : workshop on multilingual annotation of named entities and terminology resources acquisition

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PROGRAMME

The preliminary programme has now been posted at http://www.clef2013.org/index.php?page=Pages/programme.html
Further details on the program, will be available soon.

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ORGANIZATION

General Chairs
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Benno Stein, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

Program Chairs
Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Roberto Paredes, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Evaluation Lab Chairs
Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Dan Tufis, RACAI, Romania

Organization Chair
Pamela Forner, CELCT, Italy

Resource Chair
Khalid Choukri, ELDA, France

Publications
Pamela Forner, CELCT, Italy

Website
Giovanni Moretti, CELCT, Italy

Local Organizers
Centro de Formación Permanente, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Enrique Flores, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Parth Gupta, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Mauricio Villegas, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain



We look forward to welcoming you to Valencia!

The CLEF 2013 Chairs

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With thanks to our sponsors: PROMISE - European Science Foundation - Universitat Politècnica de València - Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, WIQ-EI-Web Information Quality Evaluation Initiative - Corex



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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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