CLEF 2012 - CLEF 2012: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum

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Deadline: April 30, 2012 | Date: September 17, 2012-September 20, 2012

Venue/Country: Rome, Italy

Updated: 2012-02-06 13:41:42 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality,

and Visual Analytics

17-20 September 2012, Rome, Italy

http://clef2012.org/

Call for papers

We invite submissions for the CLEF 2012 Conference on all aspects of

Information Access in any modality and language. A series of workshops

presenting the results of lab-based comparative/competitive evaluations are

attached to the main Conference. This is the 13th edition of the CLEF

initiative as a forum for Information Access Evaluation with special

attention to multimodality and multilinguality.

All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the basis of

relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. The conference proceedings

will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Topics

Relevant topics for the CLEF 2012 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.

- Visual Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical

results in the Visual 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, market

studies, etc.Format

Authors are invited to submit electronically original papers, which have not

been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS

proceedings format:

http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

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:

http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/home/CLEF2012

Dates

- Submission of Papers: April 30 2012

- Notification of Acceptance: June 04 2012

- Camera Ready: June 18 2012

- Conference: September 17-20 2012

Organization

General Chairs

Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Program Chairs

Anselmo Peñas, National Distance Learning University (UNED), Spain

Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Evaluation Lab Chairs

Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Sweden

Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany

Organization Chair

Emanuele Pianta, CELCT, Italy

Local organizers

Consulta Umbra, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Carola Aiello, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy