Petra Hauke

Andrea Kaufmann

Vivien Petras

Die Ergebnisse bibliothekswissenschaftlicher Forschung der praktischen Bibliotheksarbeit vor Ort zugutekommen zu lassen – unter diesem Motto wurden die Beiträge für diese Festschrift zusammengestellt. Es geht um Methoden der Bibliotheks- u. Informationswissenschaft, Öffentliche Bibliotheken, Bibliotheksmanagement u. -marketing, Benutzer- u. Bedarfsforschung, die Bibliothek als Ort, ihre Rolle im Publikationswesen, Fragen zu Ethik und Berufsbild.

Festschrift für Konrad Umlauf zum 65. Geburtstag

Bibliothek – Forschung für die Praxis

Thomas Mandl

Diana Santos

Henning Müller

Douglas W. Oard

Valentin Jijkoun

The eighth campaign of the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for - ropean languages was held from January to September 2007. There were seven distinct evaluation tracks in CLEF 2007, designed to test the performance of a wide range of multilingual information access systems or system components. CLEF is by now an established international evaluation initiative and, in 2007, 81 groups from all over the world submitted results for one or more of the di?erent evaluation tracks. Full details regarding the design of the tracks, the methodologies used for evaluation, and the results obtained by the participants can be found in the di?erent sections of these proceedings. As always the results of the campaign were reported and discussed at the annual workshop, held in Budapest, Hungary, 19-21 September, immediately following the eleventh European Conference on Digital Libraries. The workshop playsanimportantrolebyprovidingtheopportunityforallthe groupsthathave participated in the evaluation campaign to get together to compare approaches and exchange ideas.

8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers

Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval

Mikko Kurimo

Nicola Ferro

Julio Gonzalo

Thomas Deselaers

The ninth campaign of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) for European languages was held from January to September 2008. There were seven main eval- tion tracks in CLEF 2008 plus two pilot tasks. The aim, as usual, was to test the p- formance of a wide range of multilingual information access (MLIA) systems or s- tem components. This year, 100 groups, mainly but not only from academia, parti- pated in the campaign. Most of the groups were from Europe but there was also a good contingent from North America and Asia plus a few participants from South America and Africa. Full details regarding the design of the tracks, the methodologies used for evaluation, and the results obtained by the participants can be found in the different sections of these proceedings. The results of the CLEF 2008 campaign were presented at a two-and-a-half day workshop held in Aarhus, Denmark, September 17–19, and attended by 150 resear- ers and system developers. The annual workshop, held in conjunction with the European Conference on Digital Libraries, plays an important role by providing the opportunity for all the groups that have participated in the evaluation campaign to get together comparing approaches and exchanging ideas. The schedule of the workshop was divided between plenary track overviews, and parallel, poster and breakout sessions presenting this year’s experiments and discu- ing ideas for the future. There were several invited talks.

9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access

Vivien Petras

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