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LifeCLEF 2021 worksop
by ajoly 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Save the date LifeCLEF <http://www.lifeclef.org/> workshop 2021: AI-based biodiversity identification and prediction Thursday, 23rd Sept (in the context of CLEF <http://clef2021.clef-initiative.eu/> virtual conference, overall programme <http://clef2021.clef-initiative.eu/index.php?page=Pages/programme.html>) <http://www.lifeclef.org/> AIMS AND SCOPE -------------------------- Since 2014, LifeCLEF has been organizing large-scale challenges on biodiversity identification and prediction in the context of the CLEF international conference. The annual workshop is a unique opportunity to bring together specialists from different backgrounds: machine learning, ecology, citizen science, biodiversity conservation. It is also an opportunity to have an overview of the state of the art of artificial intelligence techniques for (i) the identification of plant and snake species by images, (ii) the recognition of bird sounds and (iii) the prediction of species distributions from remote sensing images. REGISTRATION ——————————— The registration <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdn45KhRPwzolT1sRv35AUXU-P2afVaclr…> to CLEF conference is FREE but MANDATORY. PROGRAMME -------------------- Provided schedules are in Central European Summer Time (CEST, e.g. Paris) For Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, e.g. California): -9 For Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST, e.g Brisbane): +8 11:30 - 13:00 LifeCLEF session 1 - chair: Alexis Joly 11:30-12:05 Keynote talk - Jessie Oliver (Queensland Univ. of Tech) - Designing citizen science technologies that support people learning and improving artificial intelligence 12:05-12:20 BirdCLEF challenge overview - Stefan Kahl (Cornell, Chemnitz univ.) 12:20-12:30 BirdCLEF participant - Jean-Francois Puget (NVIDIA) - STFT Transformers for Bird Song Recognition 12:30-12:45 SnakeCLEF challenge overview - Lukáš Picek (Univ. of West Bohemia) 12:45-13:00 PlantCLEF challenge overview - Hervé Goëau (CIRAD, PlantNet) 15:30 - 17:00 LifeCLEF session 2 - chair: Hervé Goëau 15:30-16:00 Invited talk - Marijn van der Velde (EU JRC) 16:00-16:15 GeoLifeCLEF challenge overview - Titouan Lorieul (Inria, univ. of Montpellier) 16:15-16:25 SnakeCLEF participant - Louise Bloch (Department of Computer Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund) - EfficientNets and Vision Transformers for Snake Species Identification Using Image and Location Information 16:25-16:35 GeoLifeCLEF participant - Sachith Seneviratne (Univ. of Melbourne) - Contrastive Representation Learning on remote sensing imagery for species habitat prediction 16:35-17:00 Invited talk - Sara Beery (Caltech) ORGANIZERS -------------------------- Coordination Alexis Joly <http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Alexis.Joly/>, INRIA / University of Montpellier, LIRMM, ZENITH team, France,, France, alexis.joly(replace-by-an-arrobe)inria.fr Henning Müller <http://medgift.hevs.ch/silverstripe/index.php/team/henning-mueller/>, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland in Sierre, Switzerland, henning.mueller(replace-by-an-arrobe)hevs.ch BirdCLEF Stefan Kahl <https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/staff/stefan-kahl/>, Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, USA, sk2487(replace-by-an-arrobe)cornell.edu> Willem-Pier Vellinga <https://www.xeno-canto.org/contributor/AEFZWKWLMO>, Xeno-Canto foundation for nature sounds, The Netherlands, wp(replace-by-an-arrobe)xeno-canto.org Holger Klinck <https://www.birds.cornell.edu/ccb/holger-klinck/>, Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, USA, holger.klinck(replace-by-an-arrobe)cornell.edu> Tom Denton <https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2021>, Google LLC, San Francisco, USA, tmd(replace-by-an-arrobe)google.com Hervé Glotin <http://glotin.univ-tln.fr/>, University of Toulon, France, glotin(replace-by-an-arrobe)univ-tln.fr GeoLifeCLEF Titouan Lorieul <https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=NjbJVB4AAAAJ&hl=en>, University of Montpellier, Inria, LIRMM, titouan.lorieul(replace-by-an-arrobe)inria.fr Elijah Cole <https://elijahcole.me/>, Caltech, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, US, ecole(replace-by-an-arrobe)caltech.edu Benjamin Deneu, INRIA / University of Montpellier, LIRMM, ZENITH team, France, benjamin.deneu(replace-by-an-arrobe)inria.fr Christophe Botella, Université de Grenoble Rhônes Alpes, France, christophe.botella(replace-by-an-arrobe)gmail.com Maximilien Servajean <https://maximiliense.github.io/>, LIRMM – UMPV, Montpellier, France, Maximilien.Servajean(replace-by-an-arrobe)lirmm.fr PlantCLEF Hervé Goëau <http://herve.goeau.free.fr/publications.htm>, Cirad - AMAP, Montpellier, France. Pierre Bonnet, Cirad – AMAP, Montpellier, France, pierre.bonnet(replace-by-an-arrobe)cirad.fr SnakeCLEF Lukas Picek <https://www.sites.google.com/view/picekl>, Dept. of Cybernetics, FAV, University of West Bohemia, Czechia, lukaspicek(replace-by-an-arrobe)gmail.com Andrew Durso <https://www.unige.ch/medecine/isg/en/staff/andrew-durso/>, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, USA Rafael Ruiz De Castaneda <https://www.unige.ch/medecine/isg/en/staff/rafael-ruiz-de-castaneda/>, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Rafael.RuizDeCastaneda(replace-by-an-arrobe)unige.ch CONTACT -------------------------- For more information or to ask questions, please send an email to lifeclef-org(a)inria.fr Best regards, Alexis Joly Research director at Inria / Univ. of Montpellier / LIRMM Montpellier, FRANCE Donate / Don <https://bit.ly/plantnet-donate>

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DCMI Webinar - __May 19__ (correction) Modeling Intangible Entities in the Cultural Domains for Digital Archiving Inbox
by DCMI Announce 10 May '21

10 May '21

This webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 19th, 2021, 21:00 UTC and is free (but registration required). There are a variety of new cultural domains for which we need to design metadata schemas. It is widely recognized that data models are crucial to design metadata schemas – we need to identify objects for which we create metadata. This webinar aims to present a set of generalized data models designed for metadata about resources in cultural domains such as intangible cultural heritage and popular culture. The presenter will first introduce the generalized data models and then discuss data models designed in the Media Arts Database project and related projects in which they are involved. Learning objectives for the webinar * Data Modeling for Digital Archiving of Cultural Entities: Fundamental aspects to model tangible/intangible entities in the cultural domains for organizing them as a digital collection. * Data Modeling for Media Arts (manga (Japanese comics), animation, video games, new media arts and performing arts): Data models as a foundation for metadata schema development in new cultural domains as a case study. * From Item-centric organization to Content-oriented organization of metadata for digital collections: Shift in the organization for digital collections from traditional item-centric resource organization to content-oriented resource organization in the Internet and Linked Open Data environments. About the speaker Shigeo Sugimoto received his BE, ME and PhD degrees from the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto University and specializes in software engineering and computer languages. He joined University of Library and Information Science (ULIS) in 1983. ULIS became the Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science at the University of Tsukuba (iSchool@Tsukuba) after an institutional merger in 2002. He has served as a faculty member for over 35 years in Tsukuba until his retirement in 2019. He is now a professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba. He first attended Dublin Core Workshop at Canberra in 1997. Since then, he has been actively involved in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). He is a member of the Governing Board of DCMI. His current research interests are technological and fundamental aspects for metadata in the cultural and historical domains, which include intangible cultural heritage, media arts, sports and natural disasters. Register (free) at https://www.dublincore.org/news/2021/05_06_webinar_modeling_intangible_enti…

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DCMI Webinar, May 20, Modeling Intangible Entities in the Cultural Domains for Digital Archiving
by DCMI Announce 10 May '21

10 May '21

This webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 19th, 2021, 21:00 UTC and is free (but registration required). There are a variety of new cultural domains for which we need to design metadata schemas. It is widely recognized that data models are crucial to design metadata schemas – we need to identify objects for which we create metadata. This webinar aims to present a set of generalized data models designed for metadata about resources in cultural domains such as intangible cultural heritage and popular culture. The presenter will first introduce the generalized data models and then discuss data models designed in the Media Arts Database project and related projects in which they are involved. Learning objectives for the webinar * Data Modeling for Digital Archiving of Cultural Entities: Fundamental aspects to model tangible/intangible entities in the cultural domains for organizing them as a digital collection. * Data Modeling for Media Arts (manga (Japanese comics), animation, video games, new media arts and performing arts): Data models as a foundation for metadata schema development in new cultural domains as a case study. * From Item-centric organization to Content-oriented organization of metadata for digital collections: Shift in the organization for digital collections from traditional item-centric resource organization to content-oriented resource organization in the Internet and Linked Open Data environments. About the speaker Shigeo Sugimoto received his BE, ME and PhD degrees from the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto University and specializes in software engineering and computer languages. He joined University of Library and Information Science (ULIS) in 1983. ULIS became the Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science at the University of Tsukuba (iSchool@Tsukuba) after an institutional merger in 2002. He has served as a faculty member for over 35 years in Tsukuba until his retirement in 2019. He is now a professor emeritus at the University of Tsukuba. He first attended Dublin Core Workshop at Canberra in 1997. Since then, he has been actively involved in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI). He is a member of the Governing Board of DCMI. His current research interests are technological and fundamental aspects for metadata in the cultural and historical domains, which include intangible cultural heritage, media arts, sports and natural disasters. Register (free) at https://www.dublincore.org/news/2021/05_06_webinar_modeling_intangible_enti…

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DCMI/ASIS&T webinar about Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) on April 21
by DCMI Announce 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Date: Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 Tim: 14:00 UTC (convert to your local timezone [1]) Presenters: - Jane Fry, Data Services Librarian, Carleton University - Arofan Gregory, Independent Consultant - Jared Lyle, Executive Director, DDI Alliance and Archivist, ICPSR, University of Michigan - Barry Radler, Distinguished Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison The webinar will discuss the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health sciences, with an emphasis on DDI-Codebook and DDI-Lifecycle. DDI-Codebook is a light-weight version of the standard, intended primarily to document simple survey data. DDI-Lifecycle is designed to document and manage data across the entire life cycle, from conceptualization to data publication, analysis and beyond. It encompasses all of the DDI-Codebook specification and extends it to more complex, linked, and longitudinal data. Based on XML Schemas, DDI-Lifecycle is modular and extensible. The presentation will also briefly discuss the DDI Alliance organizational structure, as well as products currently under development. The learning objectives for the webinar are: - To understand DDI-Codebook, including when and how to use it. - To understand DDI-Lifecycle and an applied example. - To understand how the DDI Alliance organization maintains the DDI metadata standard. The webinar is free for DCMI members. For further information, including instructions on how to join as a DCMI member, see [2]. [1] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=DCMI+Webinar%3A+I… [2] https://www.dublincore.org/news/2021/02-18-webinar-introduction-to-ddi/

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TDWG 2021 Program Committee - last day to apply
by Deborah Paul 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

Hi All, RE: TDWG 2021 Program Committee Opportunity - Last Day to Apply If you're looking to help envision and design the 2021 Conference for Biodiversity Information Standards TDWG, please submit your application <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPd9b3GDS5SFEapmi4ep1b1i1opZMK4w_…> for consideration by 10 February 2021 -- today ;-) Google Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPd9b3GDS5SFEapmi4ep1b1i1opZMK4w_… In 2021 anticipation, Deborah Paul, et al from TDWG Executive Committee -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics (BI) Community Liaison - Species File Group (INHS) - University of Illinois -- BI Standards (TDWG) Chair (2021-2022) -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar new email: dlpaul(a)illinois.edu

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Fwd: Wednesday Feb 10 Webinar: KNIME Analytics Platform (DCMI)
by DCMI Announce 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

This Webinar will be hosted by ASIS&T. Registration for DCMI webinars is currently free of charge, but you will need to use the *discount code 'dcmi25' *when you register. Full details, including instructions for joining the webinar <https://associationforinformationscienceandtechnologyasist.growthzoneapp.co…> . About the webinar: https://www.dublincore.org/news/2021/02-10-webinar-introduction-to-knime/ [image: Image] > > KNIME Analytics Platform (DCMI) > > > > *Magnus Pfeffer and Kai Eckert February 10, 11:00 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST* > > KNIME Analytics Platform is an open source software for working with all > kinds of data. It uses visual workflows that are created with an intuitive, > drag and drop style graphical interface, without the need for coding. The > webinar will give an introduction to KNIME and focus on data blending and > shaping. > > > > All data files and KNIME workflows used in the webinar will be made > available after the webinar, so participants can reproduce the demonstrated > steps on their own computers. > > > > 1) Attendees will be introduced to the KNIME Analytics Platform > > 2) Data cleaning techniques such as data blending and shaping will be > demonstrated. > > 3) Attendees will learn about machine learning models and their role in > optimizing workflow performance and application to validation metrics. > > > > Through the generosity of DCMI, this webinar is being offered > complimentary to all registrants who attend the live presentation. > > *Presenters* > [image: Image] > > > Dr. Kai Eckert is professor for web-based information systems at Stuttgart > Media University, Germany. His research interests include linked data, data > integration and enrichment, knowledge organization and data provenance. > > > > Magnus Pfeffer is professor for information management at Stuttgart Media > University, Germany. His research interests include linked data, metadata > integration, information retrieval in heterogeneous datasets and machine > learning. > REGISTER NOW > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassociati…> > This email was sent on behalf of Association for Information Science and > Technology | ASIS&T located at 8555 16th Street, Suite 850, Silver > Spring, MD 20910. To unsubscribe click here. > <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassociati…> > If you have questions or comments concerning this email contact Association > for Information Science and Technology | ASIS&T . >

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IG GBWG Genomic Biodiversity - Invitation to join mailing list
by Dröge, Gabriele 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Dear all, For the reshaped Interest Group "Genomic Biodiversity" we created a mailing list (tdwg-gbwg(a)lists.tdwg.org<mailto:tdwg-gbwg@lists.tdwg.org>) to be used for announcing meetings and IG related matters. You are welcome to join the mailing list (and our meetings), please subscribe at: http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-gbwg The main topic for the whole year will be environmental DNA and environmental sample data. Our next meeting will take place over Zoom at UTC 16:00 - 17:30 on Tuesday, 23rd March (=11am EST/5pm CET). If you want to learn more about the Interest Group please have a look at: https://www.tdwg.org/community/gbwg/ https://github.com/tdwg/gbwg Best wishes, Katie Barker, John Deck and Gabi Droege (conveners) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gabi Droege Global Genome Biodiversity Network (GGBN) Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin Freie Universität Berlin Koenigin-Luise-Str. 6-8 14195 Berlin Germany +49 30 838 50 139 www.ggbn.org<http://www.ggbn.org> www.bgbm.org<http://www.bgbm.org>

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TG MIDS - General: Join mailing list and next meeting date
by Alex Hardisty 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

Dear all, Mailing list We created a mailing list (tdwg-mids(a)lists.tdwg.org<mailto:tdwg-mids@lists.tdwg.org>) for the recently launched MIDS Task Group to develop a standard for Minimum Information about a Digital Specimen (MIDS). We will use this to announce meeting details and other matters. To follow/contribute to the work, please join the mailing list. You can subscribe here: http://lists.tdwg.org/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-mids. Next meeting The next meeting of the MIDS TG will take place by Zoom at UTC 15:00 - 16:30 on Thursday 7th January. Details will be announced on the new mailing list on 5th January. More detail To discover more information about the TG, see its charter here: https://www.tdwg.org/community/cd/mids/. To follow the work in progress see/join GitHub here: https://github.com/tdwg/mids. To read the current working draft of the specification, see it here: https://github.com/tdwg/mids/blob/working-draft/current-draft/MIDS-definiti… Kind regards -- Alex and Elspeth (TG convenors) Alex Hardisty Alex Hardisty Director of Informatics Projects Cyfarwyddwr y Prosiect Gwybodeg School of Computer Science and Informatics Yr Ysgol Cyfrifiadureg a Gwybodeg Cardiff University, Queens Buildings Prifysgol Caerdydd, Adeiladau'r Frenhines 5, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA 5, The Parade, Caerdydd CF24 3AA United Kingdom Y Deyrnas Unedig tel: +44 (0)29 2087 4861 ffôn : +44 (0)29 2087 4861 email: hardistyar(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:hardistyar@cardiff.ac.uk> ebost: hardistyar(a)caerdydd.ac.uk<mailto:hardistyar@caerdydd.ac.uk> skype: alex.hardisty skype: alex.hardisty orcid id: orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-4310<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0767-4310>

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by Alex Hardisty 10 Dec '20

10 Dec '20

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CLEF2021: Call-for-Labs-Participation
by ajoly 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

[Apologies for multiple postings] CLEF 2021 Conference and Labs on the Evaluation Forum Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Visualization 21 - 24 September 2021, Bucharest - Romania *** CALL FOR LAB PARTICIPATION *** Conference website: http://clef2021.clef-initiative.eu/ <http://clef2021.clef-initiative.eu/> CLEF 2021 is the 12th CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems. It consists of a peer-reviewed conference (see the separate call for papers) and a set of 12 Labs designed to test different aspects of multilingual and multimedia IR systems: 1. ARQMath: Answer Retrieval for Questions on Math 2. BioASQ: Large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering 3. CheckThat!: Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News 4. ChEMU: Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University lab 5. CLEF eHealth: medical content retrieval to support decision making 6. eRisk: Early Risk prediction on the Internet 7. ImageCLEF: Multimedia Retrieval Challenge in CLEF 8. LifeCLEF: Multimedia Life Species Identification 9. LiLAS: Living Labs for Academic Search 10. PAN: Digital Text Forensics and Stylometry 11. SimpleText-202: (Re)Telling right scientific stories to non-specialists via text simplification 12. Touché: Argument Retrieval *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Lab Registration Opens: 16 November 2020 Registration closes: 30 April 2021 End Evaluation Cycle: 7 May 2021 Working Notes papers due: 28 May 2021 Camera Ready Copy: 2 July 2021 *** PARTICIPATION *** Lab participants must register for the Labs via the CLEF website: http://clef2021-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ <http://clef2021-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/> *** LABS *** 1. ARQMath: Answer Retrieval for Questions on Math ARQMath aims to advance math-aware search and the semantic analysis of mathematical notation and texts. Task 1 - Answer Retrieval: Given a math question post, return relevant answer posts. Task 2 - Formula Search: Given a formula in a math question post, return relevant formulas from both question and answer posts. Lab Coordination: Richard Zanibbi (Rochester Institute of Technology), Douglas Oard (University of Maryland), Anurag Agarwal (Rochester Institute of Technology), and Behrooz Mansouri (Rochester Institute of Technology) Lab Website: https://www.cs.rit.edu/~dprl/ARQMath <https://www.cs.rit.edu/~dprl/ARQMath> Twitter: @ARQMath1 2. BioASQ: Large-scale biomedical semantic indexing and question answering The aim of the BioASQ Lab is to push the research frontier towards systems that use the diverse and voluminous information available online to respond directly to the information needs of biomedical scientists. Task 1 - Task A: Large-Scale Online Biomedical Semantic Indexing. Task 2 - Task B: Biomedical Semantic Question Answering. Task 3 - Task MESINESP: Medical Semantic Indexing In Spanish. Task 4 - Task Synergy: Question Answering for COVID-19. Lab Coordination: Anastasia Krithara (National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"), Anastasios Nentidis (National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" & Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), George Paliouras (National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"), Martin Krallinger (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), and Marta Villegas (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Lab Website: http://www.bioasq.org/workshop2021 <http://www.bioasq.org/workshop2021> Twitter: @BioASQ 3. CheckThat!: Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News The CheckThat! Lab aims at fighting misinformation and disinformation in social media, in political debates, and in the news, with focus on three tasks (in English, Arabic, German and Spanish): check-worthiness estimation, detecting previously fact-checked claims, and fake news detection. Task 1 - Check-worthiness estimation: given a piece of text, detect whether it is worth fact-checking. Task 2 - Detecting previously fact-checked claims: given a check-worthy claim in the form of a tweet, and a set of previously-checked claims, determine whether the claim has been previously fact-checked. Task 3 - Fake new detection: this task has two subtasks: multi-class fake news detection, and domain identification of fake news articles. Lab Coordination: Preslav Nakov, Giovanni da San Martino, Tamer Elsayed, Alberto Barron-Cedeno,Ruben Miguez, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fatima Haouari, Maram Hasanain, Nikolay Babulkov, Alex Nikolov, Thomas Mandl, Julia Maria Struß, Gautam Kishore Shahi, and Sandip Modha Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/view/clef2021-checkthat <https://sites.google.com/view/clef2021-checkthat> 4. ChEMU: Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University lab ChEMU (Cheminformatics Elsevier Melbourne University) lab aims to advance the state-of-the-arts in information extraction over chemical patents, and provide the opportunity to address the fundamental NLP task - anaphora resolution in the context of chemical patents. Task 1 - Chemical Reaction Reference Resolution: given a description of a chemical reaction, the task requires identification of other chemical reactions or general conditions that it refers to. Task 2 - Anaphora Resolution: this task focuses on expression-level references, and requires identification of reference resolution between expressions in chemical patents. Lab Coordination: Karin Verspoor (The University of Melbourne), Tim Baldwin (The University of Melbourne), Trevor Cohn (The University of Melbourne), Saber Akhondi (Elsevier), Jiayuan He (The University of Melbourne), Christian Druckenbrodt (Elsevier), Camilo Thorne (Elsevier), Biaoyan Fang (The University of Melbourne), Hiyori Yoshikawa (The University of Melbourne), and Zenan Zhai (The University of Melbourne) Lab Website: http://chemu.eng.unimelb.edu.au/ <http://chemu.eng.unimelb.edu.au/> 5. CLEF eHealth: medical content retrieval to support decision making This lab aims to support the development of techniques to aid laypeople, clinicians and policy-makers in easily retrieving and making sense of medical content to support their decision making. Task 1 - Information Extraction from Noisy Text: participants will identify and classify Named Entities in written ultrasonography reports, containing misspellings and inconsistencies, from a major public hospital in Argentina. Task 2 - Consumer Health Search: participants must retrieve web pages that fulfil a given patient’s personalised information need. This needs to fulfil the following criteria: information credibility, quality, and suitability. Lab Coordination: Laura Alonso Alemany (Univ. Nacional de Córdoba), Viviana Cotik (Univ. de Buenos Aires), Lorraine Goeuriot (Univ. J.Fourier), Liadh Kelly (Maynooth University), Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano-Bicocca), and Hanna Suominen (Australian National Univ.) Lab Website: https://clefehealth.imag.fr/ <https://clefehealth.imag.fr/> Twitter: @clefhealth 6. eRisk: Early Risk prediction on the Internet The main purpose of eRisk is to explore issues of evaluation methodology, effectiveness metrics and other processes related to early risk detection. Task 1 - Early detection of pathological gambling: this task will pursue early detection models for emitting alerts on users starting to develop this mental health problem. Task 2 - Early detection of self-harm: this task will pursue early detection models for emitting alerts on users starting to develop this mental health problem. Task 3 - Depression-level estimation: in this task, participants are expected to develop models to automatically fill a standard depression questionnaire based on the user's writings. Lab Coordination: Javier Parapar (Universidade da Coruña), Patricia Martín-Rodilla (Universidade da Coruña), David E. Losada (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), and Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano) Lab Website: https://erisk.irlab.org/ <https://erisk.irlab.org/> Twitter: @earlyrisk 7. ImageCLEF: Multimedia Retrieval Challenge in CLEF ImageCLEF 2021, the Multimedia Retrieval Challenge in CLEF, is set to promote the evaluation of technologies for annotation, indexing, classification and retrieval of multi-modal data, with the objective of providing information access to large collections of images in various usage scenarios and domains. Task 1 - ImageCLEFmedical: participants will be requested to develop solutions for automatically identifying individual components from which captions are composed in Radiology Objects in COntext images and to combine natural language processing and computer vision for answering a medical question based on a visual image content. Task 2 - ImageCLEFcoral: requires participants to automatically segment and label a collection of coral images that can be used in combination to create 3-dimensional models of an underwater environment. Task 3 - ImageCLEFdrawnUI: requires participants to detect rectangular bounding boxes corresponding to website User Interface elements from hand-drawn and real-world images. Task 4 - ImageCLEFaware: participants are required to provide automatic rankings of photographic user profiles in a series of real-life situations such as searching for a job, accommodation, insurance, bank loans, etc. Lab Coordination: Bogdan Ionescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), Henning Müller (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland), and Renaud Péteri (University of La Rochelle) Lab Website: https://www.imageclef.org/2021 <https://www.imageclef.org/2021> Twitter: @imageclef 8. LifeCLEF: Multimedia Life Species Identification LifeCLEF lab aims at boosting research on the identification and prediction of living organisms in order to solve the taxonomic gap and improve our knowledge of biodiversity. Task 1 - PlantCLEF: image-based plant species identification from herbarium sheets. Task 2 - BirdCLEF: bird species identification from bird calls and songs in audio soundscapes. Task 3 - GeoLifeCLEF: location-based species prediction based on environmental and occurrence data. Task 4 - SnakeCLEF: image-based and location-based snake identification. Lab Coordination: Alexis Joly (Inria, LIRMM), Henning Müller (HES-SO), and Hervé Goëau (CIRAD UMR AMAP) Lab Website: https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2021 <https://www.imageclef.org/LifeCLEF2021> 9. LiLAS: Living Labs for Academic Search In the LiLAS lab, we would like to bring together IR researchers interested in the online evaluation of academic search systems. The goal is to foster knowledge on improving the search for academic resources like literature, research data, and the interlinking between these resources. Task 1 - Ad-hoc Search Ranking: the participants get access to the LIVIVO corpus that consists of about 80 million documents from more than 50 data sources in multiple languages from the Life Sciences. Task 2 - Research Data Recommendations: the goal is to provide recommendations of research data that are relevant and related to the publication the user is currently viewing. The data for this task is taken from the academic search system GESIS Search from the Social Sciences. Lab Coordination: Philipp Schaer (TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences), Johann Schaible (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences), and Leyla Jael Garcia Castro (ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences) Lab Website: https://clef-lilas.github.io <https://clef-lilas.github.io/> 10. PAN: Digital Text Forensics and Stylometry PAN is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on digital text forensics and stylometry, studying how to quantify writing style and improve authorship technology. Task 1 - Cross-domain Authorship Verification: given two texts, determine if they are written by the same author. Task 2 - Multi-Author Writing Style Analysis: given a text written by two or more authors, find all positions of writing style change. Task 3 - Profiling Haters on Twitter: given a user's Twitter timeline, determine if they spread hate speech. Lab Coordination: Martin Potthast (Leipzig University), Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València), Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean), and Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Lab Website: https://pan.webis.de/ <https://pan.webis.de/> Twitter: @webis_de 11. SimpleText-202: (Re)Telling right scientific stories to non-specialists via text simplification SimpleText aims at contributing to making science more open & accessible via automatic generation of simplified summaries of scientific documents. Pilot Task 1 - Searching for background information: given a scientific text, provide background information from an external source to help a user to understand it (definitions, context,…). Pilot Task 2 - Text Simplification: given a short scientific text (e.g. abstract), generate its simplified version. Lab Coordination: Liana Ermakova, Patrice Bellot, Pavel Braslavski, Jaap Kamps, Josiane Mothe, Diana Nurbakova, and Eric San-Juan Lab Website: https://www.irit.fr/simpleText/ <https://www.irit.fr/simpleText/> Twitter: @SimpletextW 12. Touché: Argument Retrieval Touché has been designed with the goal to establish a collaborative platform for researchers in the field of argument retrieval and to provide tools for developing and evaluating argument retrieval approaches. Task 1 - Conversational Argument Retrieval: given a query on a controversial topic, the task is to retrieve relevant arguments from a focused crawl of online debate portals. Task 2 - Comparative Argument Retrieval: given a comparative question, the task is to retrieve and rank documents from the ClueWeb12 that help to answer the comparative question with arguments and help to make an informed decision. Lab Coordination: Alexander Bondarenko (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Lukas Gienapp (Leipzig University), Maik Fröbe (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Meriem Beloucif (Universität Hamburg), Yamen Ajjour (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Alexander Panchenko (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology), Chris Biemann (Universität Hamburg), Benno Stein (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Henning Wachsmuth (Paderborn University), Martin Potthast (Leipzig University), and Matthias Hagen (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) Lab Website: https://touche.webis.de <https://touche.webis.de/> Twitter: @webis_de *** ORGANIZERS *** * General Chairs * Bogdan Ionescu, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA * Program Chairs * Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland Lorraine Goeuriot, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Birger Larsen, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark * Evaluation Lab Chairs * Alexis Joly, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Maria Maistro, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Florina Piroi, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Publicity Chairs * Liviu Ștefan Daniel, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania Mihai Dogariu, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania * Outreach Program Chairs * Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University, China - Asian Liaison Hugo Jair Escalante, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, Mexico - Central American Liaison Fabio A. Gonzalez, National University of Colombia, Colombia - South American Liaison Ben Herbst, Praelexis, South Africa - African Liaison Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada - North American Liaison * Industry & Sponsorship Chairs * Șeila Abdulamit, Vodafone, Romania Mihai-Gabriel Constantin, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania Bogdan Boteanu, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania * Website & Social Media Chairs * Denisa Ionașcu, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania * Finance Chair * Ion Marghescu, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, Romania * Proceedings Chairs * Guglielmo Faggioli, University of Padua, Italy Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Ital -- Alexis Joly

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