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*Call for Papers: CLEF 2017*
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*SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS*
*CLEF 2017, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN*

With only 4 weeks to go, we would like to remind everyone that* CLEF 2017*
Call For Papers will close on the *28th April 2017.*

We warmly welcome you to submit a long or short paper for CLEF 2017, which
will be hosted by the ADAPT Centre and will take place at Trinity
College Dublin, Ireland from 11-14 September 2017.

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The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any
modality and language. The CLEF conference includes presentation of
research papers and a series of workshops presenting the results of
lab-based comparative evaluation benchmarks. CLEF 2017 is the 8th year of
the CLEF Conference series and the 18th year of the CLEF initiative as a
forum for information retrieval (IR) evaluation. The CLEF conference has a
clear focus on experimental IR as carried out within evaluation forums
(CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, TAC, ...) with
special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality,
multilinguality, and interactive search. We invite paper submissions on
significant new insights demonstrated on 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 evaluation
paradigm.

Relevant topics for the CLEF 2017 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 information retrieval 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.

See here for more detail: http://clef2017.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=
Pages/call_for_papers.html
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All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be
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eviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity.
CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless
of whether the results are positive or negative. Methods are expected to be
written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the
research design is clearly described in the paper. The conference
proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS).

*Submission Guidelines*

Authors are invited to electronically submit original papers, which have
not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the
LNCS proceedings format:
http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-
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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:
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*Important Dates*
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Long Papers submission: *28 April 2017*

Short Papers submission: *5 May 2017*

Notification of Acceptance: *9 June 2017*

Camera Ready Copy: *23 June 2017*

Conference: *11-14 September 2017*

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*Organisation*

*Conference Chairs*
• Gareth J. F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Séamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

*Program Chairs*
• Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
• Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland

*Lab Chairs*
• Lorraine Goeuriot, Université Joseph Fourier, France
• Thomad Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany

*Proceedings Chairs*
• Linda Cappellato, University of Padua, Italy
• Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy

*Contact Us*

*Conference Queries*

*For all conference logistics, accommodation, registration and general
queries, please contact:*

Email: CLEF2017 at conferencepartners.ie

Telephone: +353 1 2967251

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*Conference Programme*

*For all queries related to the Scientific Programme, please contact
Conference Chairs:*

Gareth J. F. Jones Dublin City University, Ireland - gareth.jones at dcu.ie

Séamus Lawless Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - seamus.lawless at scss.tcd.ie

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