<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">With apologies for cross-posting.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">CLEF 2018</div><div class="">+++++++++++++++++++++</div><div class="">First call for papers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important Dates</div><div class="">---------------</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Submission of abstracts / intentions: 20 April 2018</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Submission of Long Papers: 7 May 2018 </div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Submission of Short Papers: 14 May 2018</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Notification of Acceptance: 8 June 2018</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Camera Ready Copy due: 22 June 2018</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Conference: 10-14 September 2018</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class="">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). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Committee</div><div class="">---------</div><div class="">Conference Chairs:</div><div class="">Patrice Bellot (Aix-Marseille Univ., France)</div><div class="">Chiraz Trabelsi (Univ. of Tunis, Tunis)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Program Chairs:</div><div class="">Josiane Mothe (Univ. de Toulouse, France)</div><div class="">Fionn Murtagh (Univ. of Huddersfield, UK)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Evaluation Lab Chairs:</div><div class="">Jian Yun Nie (Univ. de Montréal, Canada)</div><div class="">Laure Soulier (LIP6, UPMC, France)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Proceedings Chairs: </div><div class="">Linda Cappellato (Univ. of Padua, Italy)</div><div class="">Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Local organizers:</div><div class="">Eric SanJuan ((LIA, UAPV, France)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Publicity Chair:</div><div class="">Adrian Chifu (Aix-Marseille Université - CNRS LSIS, France)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Science Outreach Program Chair: </div><div class="">Aurelia Barriere (UAPV, FR) </div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Topics</div><div class="">------</div><div class="">Relevant topics for the CLEF 2018 Conference include but are not limited to:</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Information Access in any Language or Modality: information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc.</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis, data enrichment, etc.</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>User studies either based on lab studies or crowdsourcing.</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Past results/run deep analysis both statistically and fine grain based.</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Evaluation Initiatives: conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle.</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc.</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Technology Transfer: economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc.</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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.</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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.</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>New data collection: presentation of new data collection with potential high impact on future research, specific collections from companies or labs, multilingual collections. </div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Work on data from rare languages, collaborative, social data.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Format</div><div class="">------</div><div class="">Authors are invited to electronically submit original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format: </div><div class=""><a href="http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" class="">http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a> </div><div class="">Two types of papers are solicited:</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Long papers: 12 pages max. Aimed to report complete research works.</div><div class="">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Short papers: 6 pages max. Position papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. </div><div class="">Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: </div><div class=""><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2018" class="">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2018</a></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>All the best,<br class=""><div class="">
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