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The Importance of Evaluation for Cross-Language System Development: the CLEF Experience
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002)
Abstract
The aim of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is to develop and maintain an infrastructure for the evaluation of information retrieval systems operating on European languages in both monolingual and cross-language contexts, and to create test-suites of reusable data that can be employed by system developers for benchmarking purposes. Two CLEF evaluation campaigns have been held so far (CLEF 2000 and CLEF 2001); CLEF 2002 is now under way. The paper describes the objectives and the organisation of these campaigns, and gives a first assessment of the results. In conclusion, plans for future CLEF campaigns are reported.