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Report on CLEF 2020

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This is a report on the tenth edition of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2020), (virtually) held from September 22--25, 2020, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
CLEF was a four day event combining a Conference and an Evaluation Forum. The Conference featured keynotes by Ellen Voorhees and Yiannis Kompasiaris, and presentation of peer reviewed research papers covering a wide range of topics in addition to many posters. The Evaluation Forum consisted to twelve Labs: ARQMath, BioASQ, CheckThat!, ChEMU, CLEF eHealth, eRisk, HIPE, ImageCLEF, LifeCLEF, LiLAS, PAN, and Touché, addressing a wide range of tasks, media, languages, and ways to go beyond standard test collections.

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    ACM SIGIR Forum  Volume 54, Issue 2
    December 2020
    115 pages
    ISSN:0163-5840
    DOI:10.1145/3483382
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