[Sigia-l] CLEF 2005 - Call for Participation (fwd)

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Hi all,

I thought the following which I came accross on another list might be of
interest to list members.

Regards,
BKA

>Date:         Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:10:07 +0000
>Sender: Management & Preservation of Electronic Records
>              <ERECS-L at listserv.albany.edu>
>Subject:      CLEF 2005 - Call for Participation (fwd)
>
>Posted by: Francesca Borri <francesca.borri at isti.cnr.it>
>
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>
>Apologies to those who may receive this announcement on more than one
>mailing list.
>
>Please circulate the announcement below to other interested persons and
>communities. Thank you
>---------------------------------
>
>CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM
>
>CLEF 2005 - 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 opens for CLEF 2005 on 31 January.
>
>The objective of CLEF 2005 will be to test different aspects of mono-
>and
>cross-language information retrieval system performance. There will be
>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 (QAatCLEF)
>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 2005
>Topic Release - from 15 March 2005
>Submission of Runs by Participants - from 15 May 2005
>Release of relevance assessments and individual results - from 15 July
>2005
>Submission of paper for Working Notes - 15 August 2005
>Workshop - 21-23 September (in conjunction with ECDL 2005)
>
>TEST COLLECTIONS
>The CLEF 2005 multilingual corpora include:
>- news documents in 12 European languages
>- social science databases in German and Russian
>- historical photographs and medical image collections with text and/or
>annotations in English, French and German
>- spontaneous conversational speech
>- multilingual collection of web documents from European governmental
>sites
>
>For full details on the CLEF Agenda and Task Description for 2005 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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