Call for Papers

Important Dates

  • Submission of Abstracts of Long and Short Papers: 26 April 2019 03 May 2019
  • Submission of Long and Short Papers: 03 May 2019 10 May 2019
  • Submission of CEUR-WS Participant Papers: 24 May 2019
  • Submission of LNCS Lab Overviews: 31 May 2019
  • Notification of Acceptance: 07 June 2019
  • LNCS Papers and LNCS Lab Overviews Camera Ready Copy: 21 June 2019
  • CEUR-WS Working Notes Camera Ready Copy: 28 June 2019
  • Conference: 09-12 September 2019

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 2019 Lugano is the 10th year of the CLEF Conference series and the 20th 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.

Committee

Conference Chairs

Fabio Crestani, Universitá della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland
Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland

Program Chairs

Jacques Savoy, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria

Evaluation Lab Chairs

Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland
David Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Industry Chair

Gundula Heinatz, Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services, Switzerland

Topics

As CLEF will celebrate its 20th edition, we particularly but not exclusively invite paper submissions on:
  • Significant new insights demonstrated on past CLEF test collections (look-back-20-years),
  • Paper on reproducibility,
  • On analysis of CLEF test collections and evaluation measures (the Cranfield/TREC/CLEF evaluation paradigm)
As well as other relevant topics including but 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

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=clef2019