Call for Papers 
CLEF 2013: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality,
Multimodality, and Visualization
23-26 September 2013, Valencia, Spain
http://clef2013.org/
We invite submissions for the CLEF 2013 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 14th 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 2013 Conference
include but are not limited to:
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Information Access
in any language or modality: Information retrieval, Image Retrieval, Question Answering, Search Interfaces
and design, infrastructures, etc.
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Visual Analytics
for Information Retrieval:
theoretical and practical results in the Visual Analytics field that are
specifically targeted for Information Access data analysis.
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Evaluation
initiatives:
Conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation
initiative after completing their cycle.
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Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical
and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth
creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc.
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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:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2013
Dates
- Submission of Papers: May 8 2013
- Notification of Acceptance: June 15
2013
- Camera Ready: June
30 2013
- Conference: September
23-26 2013
Organization
General
Chairs
Paolo
Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Benno
Stein, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Program
Chairs
Henning
Müller, HES-SO, Sierre, Switzerland
Roberto Paredes,
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Evaluation
Lab Chairs
Roberto
Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Dan Tufis,
RACAI, Romania
Organization
Chair
Pamela Forner, CELCT, Italy
Local organizers
Universitat
Politècnica de València, Spain
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Centro de Formación
Permanente,
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Enrique Flores, Parth Gupta, and
Mauricio Villegas
