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

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