Report on the 13th Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2022): Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Giovanni Da San Martino, Mirko Degli Esposti, Guglielmo Faggioli, Nicola Ferro, Allan Hanbury, Craig Macdonald, Gabriella Pasi, Martin Potthast, Fabrizio Sebastiani

Abstract: This is a report on the thirteenth edition of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2022), held on September 5--8, 2022, in Bologna, Italy. CLEF was a four-day hybrid event combining a conference and an evaluation forum. The conference featured keynotes by Benno Stein and Rita Cucchiara, and presentation of peer-reviewed research papers covering a wide range of topics, in addition to many posters. The evaluation forum consisted of fourteen labs: ARQMath, BioASQ, CheckThat!, ChEMU, eRisk, HIPE, iDPP, ImageCLEF, JokeR, LeQua, LifeCLEF, PAN, SimpleText, and Touché, addressing a wide range of tasks, media, languages, and ways to go beyond standard test collections. Date: 5--8 September, 2022. Website: https://clef2022.clef-initiative.eu/.