CLEF

Template:Event series The CLEF Initiative (Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, formerly known as Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) is a self-organized body whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems with an emphasis on multilingual and multimodal information with various levels of structure. CLEF promotes research and development by providing an infrastructure for:

• multilingual and multimodal system testing, tuning and evaluation;
• investigation of the use of unstructured, semi-structured, highly-structured, and semantically enriched data in information access;
• creation of reusable test collections for benchmarking;
• exploration of new evaluation methodologies and innovative ways of using experimental data;
• discussion of results, comparison of approaches, exchange of ideas, and transfer of knowledge.