--- Forwarded Message from Jeff ALLEN <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: ven., 10 mars 2000 16:38:16 +0100 >To: (various e-lists) <[log in to unmask]> >From: Jeff ALLEN <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CONF: Cross Language Evaluation Forum - Call for Participation >Cc: (Carol Peters) <[log in to unmask]> ------------------ [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] This message is posted by ELRA/ELDA for Carol Peters. ------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------- 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 ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.elda.fr/ *** See the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2000 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html ***