Report on the 12th conference and labs of the evaluation forum (CLEF 2021)
Résumé
This is a report on the eleventh edition of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2021), (virtually) held on September 21--24, 2021, in Bucharest, Romania. CLEF was a four day event combining a Conference and an Evaluation Forum. The Conference featured keynotes by Naila Murray and Mark Sanderson, and presentation of peer reviewed research papers covering a wide range of topics in addition to many posters. The Evaluation Forum consisted to thirteen Labs: ARQMath, BioASQ, CheckThat!, ChEMU, CLEF eHealth, eRisk, HIPE, ImageCLEF, LifeCLEF, LiLAS, PAN, SimpleText, and Touché, addressing a wide range of tasks, media, languages, and ways to go beyond standard test collections. Date : 21--24 September, 2021. Website : http://clef2021.clef-initiative.eu/.