CLEF

Cross-Language Evaluation Forum

Summary

CLEF encourages research in multilingual and cross-language information retrieval for the European languages by creating an open forum for the exchange of research ideas. CLEF provides a multilingual test corpus for the evaluation of information retrieval systems, consisting of:

newspaper and newswire data in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish;
natural language statements of user information needs (queries);
relevance judgements (the "good answers").

Participation is open for academia and industry. To participate in the evaluation, please visit the Official CLEF homepage.

Duration and Funding

CLEF is funded in part by the European Commission. The project started in January 2000 and will end in December 2003.

Related projects

Twenty-One
Druid
ECHO

Contact Information

Djoerd Hiemstra
Department of Computer Science/CTIT, University of Twente
Postbus 217
7500 AE ENSCHEDE
Tel.: +31 53 4893680

Last modified September 2001