Introduction

The objective of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) is to develop and maintain an infrastructure for the testing and evaluation of information retrieval systems operating on European languages, and to create test-suites of reusable data that can be employed by system developers for benchmarking purposes. The second CLEF evaluation campaign was held from January to September 2001 and ended with a workshop held in Darmstadt, Germany, 3–4 September, in which the participants in the campaign reported their experiments and discussed their results.

Authors and Affiliations

1. IEI-CNR, Area di Ricerca, 56124, Pisa, Italy

   Carol Peters

Editors and Affiliations

1. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

   Carol Peters

2. Eurospider Information Technology AG, Schaffhauserstrasse 18, 8006, Zürich, Switzerland

   Martin Braschler

3. E.T.S.I. Industriales, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040, Madrid, Spain

   Julio Gonzalo

4. Informations Zentrum Sozialwissenschaften, Lennestr. 30, 53113, Bonn, Germany

   Michael Kluck

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