Slides

Keynote Talks

Peter Clark - Project Halo: Towards a Knowledgeable Biology Textbook
Tobias Schreck - Visual Search and Analysis in Textual and Non-Textual Document Repositories Approaches, Applications, and Research Challenges

Conference Sessions

Benchmarking and Evaluation Initiatives

Henning Müller - Bringing the Algorithms to the Data: cloud-based benchmarking for medical image analysis
Ragnar Nordlie - Seven years of INEX interactive retrieval experiments – lessons and challenges

Information Access

Parth Gupta - Cross-language High Similarity Search using a Conceptual Thesaurus
Nicola Orio - MusiClef: Multimodal Music Tagging Task
Florina Piroi- Effects of Language and Topic Size in Patent IR: An Empirical Study
Levente Kovács- The Appearance of the Giant Component in Descriptor Graphs and Its Application for Descriptor Selection
Xueliang Yan- Hidden Markov Model for Term Weighting in Verbose Queries
Richard Berendsen- Generating Pseudo Test Collections for Learning to Rank Scientific Articles

Evaluation Methodologies and Infrastructure

Nicola Ferro - DIRECTions: Design and Specification of an IR Evaluation Infrastructure
Philipp Schaer - Better than their Reputation? On the Reliability of Relevance Assessments with Students
Gianmaria Silvello - Cumulative Relative Position: A Metric for Ranking Evaluation
Petra Galuščáková - Penalty Functions for Evaluation Measures of Unsegmented Speech Retrieval

Lab Overviews

Florina Piroi - CLEF-IP 2012: Retrieval in the Intellectual Property Domain
Jaap Kamps - INEX 2012 Overview
Vivien Petras - Cultural Heritage in CLEF (CHiC) 2012 Pilot Lab Overview
Martin Potthast - PAN - Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse

Community Sessions

Other Evaluation Initiatives

Donna Harman - TREC at 20 years
Donna Harman - TAC at 2011
Noriko Kando - What is happening in NTCIR
Pavel Braslavski - ROMIP: One Step Forward, One Step Aside
Gareth Jones - MediaEval in 2012
Prasenjit Majumder - FIRE: A Community building exercise

News

19 September 2012

The Social dinner will be held in Palazzo Rospigliosi Pallavicini - Via XXIV Maggio 43 (in front of the Quirinale Palace)

6 September 2012

Working Notes are now available

4 July 2012

Programme is now available

28 June 2012

EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: POSTPONED TO JULY 7, 2012

5 June 2012

CLEF 2012 registration is now open

4 June 2012

Notification delayed until next Monday, June 11

2 May 2012

CLEF 2012 will be held at "Roma Eventi - Fontana di Trevi" conference center

Deadline extension

Conference Papers submission deadline extended to May 7

1 March 2012

Labs Registration open

27 January 2012

Call for Papers available

20 January 2012

Call for Labs Participation available