Multilingual information access for digital libraries: the role of CLEF within DELOS

Multilingual information access and cross-language search and retrieval are key issues for digital libraries. For this reason, DELOS has continued to support the activities of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF), which has the promotion of research in multilingual information retrieval system development as its main goal. This paper describes the evolution of CLEF over the last seven years, illustrates the main results, and provides some recommendations for future work in this area