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>Subject: CONF: Cross Language Evaluation Forum - Call for Participation
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         CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM

            CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

A Cross-Language System Evaluation activity is now being launched 
in Europe. The activity is sponsored by the DELOS Network of 
Excellence for Digital Libraries in collaboration with the US National 
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the TREC 
Conferences. 

The Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) will run three main 
evaluation tracks in 2000, testing multilingual, bilingual and monolingual
(non-English) information retrieval systems. There will also be a special
sub-task for domain-specific cross-language evaluation.

For further information, see <http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/CLEF>.

The results of the activity will be presented during a two-day Workshop 
on Multilingual Information Access, 21-22 September in Lisbon, Portugal,
immediately after the fourth European Conference on Digital Libraries 
(ECDL2000: see <http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000>). 

Those intending to participate in CLEF 2000 are requested to send an 
e-mail to Carol Peters ([log in to unmask]), as soon as possible, 
indicating in which task(s) they intend to participate.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Data Release - 1 April 2000
Topic Release - 8 May 2000
Receipt of results from participants - 1 July 2000
Release of relevance assessments and individual results - 15 August 2000
Submission of paper for Working Notes - 5 September 2000
Workshop - 21-22 September 2000 

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Carol Peters
Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione 
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
(or IEI-CNR)
Area della Ricerca di Pisa
Via Alfieri, 1
56010 Ghezzano, PISA, Italy

Tel: +39 050 315 2897
Fax: +39 050 315 2810
E-mail:[log in to unmask]
http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/Personal/carol.html



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