Transcript iCLEF

one interface
for all
Three ways of joining in
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(I) Find the images and win the Flickr
challenge!
(II) Analyse the logs (data mining on hopefully
large set of search sessions)
(III) Run your own experiment
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Recruit users
Watch them
Ask them
Analyse search logs
study
• users’ search
behaviour
• users’ perception
• search effectiveness
iCLEF 2007-2008 schedule
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Now: First version of the interface ready for testing
End of October: Feedback from you! on
 the multilingual search interface
 experiment design
 evaluation measures
Mid-December: Guidelines + interface goes public
 Groups start their own experiments.
 People can start competing in the search challenge.
 Organization starts collecting logs from Flickr users
Mid-April:
 Flickr/Web user Logs released to interested groups
 Thematic session in Chorus Conference on Multimedia
Search and Access (hosted by Yahoo!).
Paper submission: aligned with CLEF 2008
Start testing the interface now!
http://bender.lsi.uned.es:8080/iCLEF2007
feedback to [email protected]