Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access: 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

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 contin...