LINGUIST List 16.240
Tue Jan 25 2005
FYI: PhD Studies: Symbolic Computation; CLEF 2005
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1. Günter
Landsmann,
PhD Studies in Symbolic Computation at RISC-Linz
2. Carol
Peters,
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2005
Message 1: PhD Studies in Symbolic Computation at RISC-Linz
Date: 25-Jan-2005
From: Günter Landsmann <Guenter.Landsmann
risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
Subject: PhD Studies in Symbolic Computation at RISC-Linz
Under the URL below, please find the announcement of
PhD studies starting October 2005 in "symbolic computation"
at RISC-Linz. We kindly ask you to make this announcement
known in your department.
http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/education/phd/
Please note that the application deadline is
February 28th, 2005. For any questions regarding applications
do not hesitate to contact me under the email address:
landsmann
risc.uni-linz.ac.at
With best regards,
Günter Landsmann (RISC graduate studies coordinator)
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Message 2: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2005
Date: 25-Jan-2005
From: Carol Peters <carol.peters
isti.cnr.it>
Subject: Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 2005
CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM
CLEF 2005 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The CLEF series of system evaluation campaigns aims at promoting research
into the design and development of user-friendly, multilingual, multimodal
retrieval systems.
Registration opens for CLEF 2005 on 31 January.
The objective of CLEF 2005 will be to test different aspects of mono- and
cross-language information retrieval system performance. There will be
eight tracks this year:
1. Multilingual Document Retrieval on News Collections (Ad-Hoc)
2. Mono- and Cross-Language Information Retrieval on Structured Scientific
Data (Domain-Specific)
3. Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (iCLEF)
4. Multiple Language Question Answering (QAatCLEF)
5. Cross-language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)
6. Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval (CL-SR)
7. Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF)
8. Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Data Release - from 15 February 2005
Topic Release - from 15 March 2005
Submission of Runs by Participants - from 15 May 2005
Release of relevance assessments and individual results - from 15 July 2005
Submission of paper for Working Notes - 15 August 2005
Workshop - 21-23 September (in conjunction with ECDL 2005)
TEST COLLECTIONS
The CLEF 2005 multilingual corpora include:
- news documents in 12 European languages
- social science databases in German and Russian
- historical photographs and medical image collections with text and/or
annotations in English, French and German
- spontaneous conversational speech
- multilingual collection of web documents from European governmental sites
For full details on the CLEF Agenda and Task Description for 2005 and
instructions on How to Participate, see http://www.clef-campaign.org
For further information, contact:
Carol Peters - ISTI-CNR
Tel: +39 050 315 2987
Fax: +39 050 315 2810
E-mail: carol.peters
isti.cnr.it
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
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