[CPM-SPIRE-L] Final CFP for CLEF2018

[Adrian-Gabriel CHIFU]

With apologies for cross-posting.

CLEF 2018
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Final Call for papers

Important Dates
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•    Submission of Long Papers: 7 May 2018
•    Submission of Short Papers: 14 May 2018
•    Notification of Acceptance: 8 June 2018
•    Camera Ready Copy due: 22 June 2018
•    Conference: 10-14 September 2018

The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any 
modality and language. The CLEF conference includes presentation of 
research papers and a series of workshops presenting the results of 
lab-based comparative evaluation benchmarks. CLEF 2018 Avignon is the 
9th year of the CLEF Conference series and the 19th year of the CLEF 
initiative as a forum for information retrieval (IR) evaluation. The 
CLEF conference has a clear focus on experimental IR as carried out 
within evaluation forums (CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, 
RomIP, SemEval, TAC, ...) with special attention to the challenges of 
multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search also considering 
specific classes of users as children, students, impaired users in 
different tasks (academic, professional, …) . We invite paper 
submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on IR test 
collections, on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, 
as well as on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the 
Cranfield/TREC/CLEF evaluation paradigm.
All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the 
basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes 
papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether 
the results are positive or negative. CLEF also welcomes past 
runs/results/data analysis and new data collections. Methods are 
expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the 
logic of the research design is clearly described in the paper. The 
conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes 
in Computer Science (LNCS).

Committee
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Conference Chairs:
Patrice Bellot (Aix-Marseille Univ., France)
Chiraz Trabelsi (Univ. of Tunis, Tunis)

Program Chairs:
Josiane Mothe (Univ. de Toulouse, France)
Fionn Murtagh (Univ. of Huddersfield, UK)

Evaluation Lab Chairs:
Jian Yun Nie (Univ. de Montréal, Canada)
Laure Soulier (LIP6, UPMC, France)

Proceedings Chairs:
Linda Cappellato (Univ. of Padua, Italy)
Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)

Local organizers:
Eric SanJuan ((LIA, UAPV, France)

Publicity Chair:
Adrian Chifu (Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS LSIS, France)

Science Outreach Program Chair:
Aurelia Barriere (UAPV, FR)

Topics
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Relevant topics for the CLEF 2018 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.
•    Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical 
results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for 
information access data analysis, data enrichment, etc.
•    User studies either based on lab studies or crowdsourcing.
•    Past results/run deep analysis both statistically and fine grain 
based.
•    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, use cases, 
etc.
•    Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation: the interactive 
evaluation of information retrieval systems using user-centered methods, 
evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation 
methods, simulation of interaction, etc.
•    Specific Application Domains: Information access and its evaluation 
in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, 
social media, expert search, health information, legal documents, 
patents, news, books, plants, etc.
•    New data collection: presentation of new data collection with 
potential high impact on future research, specific collections from 
companies or labs, multilingual collections.
•    Work on data from rare languages, collaborative, social data.

Format
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Authors are invited to electronically submit original papers, which have 
not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the 
LNCS proceedings format:
http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
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=clef2018

All the best,
Adrian CHIFU
Ph.D., Associate Professor
FEG, Aix-Marseille Université
LSIS - UMR 7296 CNRS
+33491056023
https://adrianchifu.com