CLEF 2010 conference on multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation

The CLEF 2010 Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation was held at the University of Padua, Italy, September 20–23, 2010. CLEF 2010 was organized by the Information Management Systems (IMS) research group of the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padua, Italy. Since 2000, Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) has played a leading role in stimulating research into a wide range of key areas in the information retrieval domain, including cross-language question answering, image and video search, and interactive retrieval. It has also promoted the study and implementation of evaluation methodologies for diverse IR tasks and media. As a result, CLEF has been extremely successful in building a strong, multidisciplinary