CLEF - Cross Language Evaluation Form

A Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), an important initiative for the evaluation of multilingual information retrieval systems, is now being launched in Europe. The activity will be sponsored by the DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries and funded by the Information Societies Technology programme of the European Commission. It will be conducted in collaboration with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the TREC conference series. We present the agenda and the most important deadlines for CLEF 2000.