Persian@CLEF 2008

CLEF

Call for Participation

on Persian Information Retrieval

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

This year, University of Tehran is collaborating with Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) to organize a Persian information retrieval track in CLEF 2008. Database Research Group (DBRG) of Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tehran will support the English-Persian/Persian-English cross language retrieval track of the CLEF2008 conference.
The Persian Ad Hoc track offers both mono and cross language information retrieval for this year. This competitive track is a good opportunity for researchers of Persian information retrieval community to share and raise their knowledge on Persian information retrieval.

Advantages:

  • Participation in a renowned and honorable scientific competition which is being supported by the European Commision.
  • Publication of your competition paper in the respectful Springer Publications.
  • Evaluation of your team's retrieval models and methods in a well designed benchmark and among international teams from several universities.

 
Langugage Resources
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Logo of Hamshahri collection - It's history goes back to Achaemenid dynasty (2500 years ago)

 

Hamshahri is the largest Persian test collection that is prepared at DBRG of university of Tehran. This collection consists news texts from Hamshahri newspaper and contains 160,000+ news articles about a wide variety of subjects.
Hamshahri collection has 65 queries and their relevance judgments for top 100 retrieved documents (according to CLEF standards).
For more information please visit: http://ece.ut.ac.ir/dbrg/hamshahri

 
   

Bijankhan is a Persian tagged corpus that is prepared at DBRG and Linguistics Labs of University of Tehran. This collection is gathered form daily news and common texts. The Bijankhan corpus contains about 2.6 millions manually tagged words with a tag set that contains 40 Persian POS tags.
For more information please visit: http://ece.ut.ac.ir/dbrg/bijankhan
Important Dates
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    Registration Opens: 22 February 2008
Data Release: from 25 March 2008
Topic Release: from 20 April 2008
Submission of Runs by Participants: 10 June 2008
Release of Relevance Assessments and Individual Results: from 15 July 2008
Submission of Paper for Working Notes: 15 August 2008
Workshop: 17-19 September 2008
How to Participate
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    In order to participate in CLEF 2008 and have access to the test collections, a registration form and (for most tracks) a data release form must be first compiled, signed, and sent to CLEF organizers. On receipt of the forms, you will be sent information on how to download the data.
For more information please visit: http://www.clef-campaign.org/
Workshop Venue
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    The CLEF 2008 Workshop will be held on 17-19 September 2008 in Aarhus, Denmark, in conjunction with the 12th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008).
Sponsors
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University of Tehran - Database Research Group. Tel: 88338507