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cs.rutgers.edu>- --------------------------------------------------------------- Interactive CLEF 2003 - Call for Participation - --------------------------------------------------------------- Registration is open to participate in the CLEF 2003 interactive evaluation task. Check the participation instructions here: http://terral.lsi.uned.es/iCLEF/2003/guidelines.html iCLEF (interactive Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation task devoted to the study of user-oriented aspects of Cross-Language and Multilingual Information Retrieval. We have already carried out two successful editions of iCLEF: in iCLEF 2001, we focused on cross-language document selection issues, and in iCLEF 2002 we focused on query formulation, translation and refinement issues. This research draws upon the general CLEF (Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) evaluation effort, profiting from the CLEF test suite (a comparable collection of newspaper and newswire documents in eight european languages) and the CLEF infrastructure for topic creation and distributed native language assessment in all languages covered by the collection. So far, eight different experiments have been undertaken by research groups in five countries, involving over 60 users, 6 european languages (French, English, German, Spanish, Finnish and Swedish) and hundreds of controlled searching sessions. These experiments have provided valuable insights into research issues such as fast alternatives to Machine Translation for document selection, the role of user-assisted query translation or the role of phrase identification for automatic translation and user feedback. Papers describing the outcome of previous iCLEF experiments can be found in the CLEF 2002 and CLEF 2001 working notes at http://www.clef-campaign.org For further information, e-mail the task coordinators: Douglas Oard (University of Maryland), oardMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ota.ahds.ac.uk>Call for Online Scholarly Humanities Resources The Humbul Humanities Hub (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/) invites members of the humanities research and teaching community to share information about scholarly Web sites via its "Suggest a Resource" page at http://www.humbul.ac.uk/submit/ Humbul catalogues online resources in the humanities, a remit that includes English, History, Archaeology, Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Modern Languages, Linguistics, and cognate subjects. As part of the Resource Discovery Network, Humbul is a free service supporting researchers, lecturers and students in higher and further education. Please note that support for the arts and creative industries is being developed by RDN Artifact (http://www.artifact.ac.uk/). Scholarly resources suggested by colleagues assist our own resource discovery activities and benefit humanities academics and students seeking useful online resources. Each suggested site which meets Humbul's collection development policy, http://www.humbul.ac.uk/about/colldev.html, is fully described by a subject specialist cataloguer and the resulting metadata record is made available for searching and browsing. In addition to building its catalogue, Humbul develops tools to make access to its catalogue easier. The My Humbul suite of personalisation tools (http://www.humbul.ac.uk/help/myhumbul.html) includes an email alerting service and enables the reuse of Humbul's records you select within your own web pages. The Humbul Humanities Hub is a service of the Resource Discovery Network funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and is hosted by the University of Oxford. Humbul Humanities Hub, University of Oxford, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Tel: 01865 283 343. Fax: 01865 273 275. Email: infoMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue