Labs

CLEF promotes the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks.

CLEF 2020 consists of a set of 12 Labs designed to test different aspects of multilingual and multimedia IR systems:

1. ARQMath: Answer Retrieval for Questions on Math
2. BioASQ: Large-scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering
3. CheckThat!: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims
4. ChEMU: Named Entity Recognition and Event Extraction of Chemical Reactions from Patents
5. eHealth: Retrieving and Making Sense of Medical Content
6. eRisk: Early Risk Prediction on the Internet
7. HIPE: Identifying Historical People, Places and other Entities
8. ImageCLEF: Multimedia Retrieval in Medicine, Lifelogging, and Internet
9. LifeCLEF: Multimedia Retrieval in Nature
10. LiLAS: Living Labs for Academic Search
11. PAN: Stylometry and Digital Text Forensics
12. Touché: Argument Retrieval

Labs Publications:

• Lab Overviews published in LNCS Proceedings
• Labs Working Notes published in CEUR-WS Proceedings
• Best of Lab Papers will be nominated for CLEF 2021 submission to LNCS proceedings

Labs Participation:

• Lab participants register via the CLEF website:
  http://clef2020-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/

Important Dates:

• Labs registration opens: 20 November 2019