CLEF 2011
Amsterdam, 19-22 September 2011
CLEF overview
 CLEF = Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal
Information Access Evaluation
 Peer-reviewed conference
 Laboratories and workshops
 http://clef2011.org/index.php?page=pages/program.html
Conference
 Keynote Talks
 Elaine Toms - "Would you trust your IR system to choose your
date?" Re-thinking IR Evaluation in the 21st Century
 Omar Alonso - Crowdsourcing for Information Retrieval
Experimentation and Evaluation
 Conference Sessions
 Methodologies and Lessons
 Language and Processing
 Visual and Context
 Slides available at CLEF web pages
Labs
 ImageCLEF
 CLEF-IP
 QA4MRE
 PAN
 LogCLEF
 MusiCLEF
ImageCLEF
 http://www.imageclef.org/2011
 This year’s tasks
 Medical Retrieval
 Photo Annotation
 Plant Identification
 Wikipedia Retrieval
 Proposals for next year
 Annotation in the wild
 Wikipedia Commons
 Demo session
CLEF-IP
 Patent retrieval
 http://www.ir-facility.org/clef-ip
 This year’s tasks
 Prior Art Search
 Classification
 Image-based Retrieval
 Image-based Classification
PAN
 Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software
Misuse
 http://pan.webis.de/
 This year’s tasks
 Plagiarism Detection
 Authorship Identification
 Wikipedia Vandalism Detection
MusiCLEF
 http://ims.dei.unipd.it/websites/MusiCLEF/
 This year’s tasks
 Content and Context-based Music Retrieval (categorization)
 Music Identification
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