Introduction
This website is for the University of Wollongong in Dubai team (UOWD-CLEF09) who are participating in CLEF2009 INFILE for English Arabic Filtering category.
About CLEF
The Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) promotes R&D in multilingual information access by developing an infrastructure for the testing, tuning and evaluation of information retrieval systems operating on European languages in both monolingual and cross-language contexts, and creating test-suites of reusable data which can be employed by system developers for benchmarking purposes.
CLEF 2009 offers a series of evaluation tracks
to test different aspects of cross-language information retrieval system
development. The aim is to promote research into the design of user-friendly,
multilingual, multimodal retrieval systems.
There
are 8 main evaluation tracks in 2009 and we will be participating in Multilingual Information Filtering INFILE@CLEF track.
About INFILE@CLEF
INFILE (information filtering evaluation) extends the TREC
2002 filtering track as follows: it uses a corpus of 100,000 Agence France Press
comparable newswires for Arabic, English and French; Evaluation is performed
using an automatic querying of test systems with a simulated user feedback. Each
system can use the feedback at any time to increase performance. Test systems
will provide boolean decisions for each document and filter profile. A curve of
the evolution of efficiency will be computed along with more classical measures
tested in TREC. INFILE is also open to monolingual participation. Coordinators
are CEA (FR), U. Lille (FR) , ELDA (FR).
