Overview of WebCLEF 2008 (Draft)

We describe the WebCLEF 2008 task. Similarly to the 2007 edition of WebCLEF, the 2008 edition implements a multilingual \information synthesis" task, where, for a given topic, participating systems have to extract important snippets from web pages. We detail the task and the assessment procedure. At the time of writing evaluation results are not available yet.