Instructions for CLEF 2018 Working Notes in the CEUR-WS Proceedings
May 31: Submission deadlines for Lab participants,
As in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 the CLEF 2018 Labs working notes will be published in the CEUR-WS.org proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/index.html). The electronic Working Notes will be organised according to the Labs. If one group participates in more than one Lab, separate reports are to be submitted. Moreover, for those Labs that are subdivided in several tasks, separate reports for different task(s) are to be provided. The publications will be divided into the following main sections (and sub-sections):
When the author logs into easychair they will find a separate "Easychair Track" for each CLEF Lab/Workshop and once they have selected the correct "Easychair Track" for their, as in the figure below.
-> Select the track corresponding to your Lab/Workshop
Afterwards, in the paper upload form, after the keywords, authors will find a checklist with the "Submission Topics" corresponding to the different tasks in that Lab. Please mark one of them:
-> Mark the topic corresponding to your task
For each of the tasks in which they participated, groups are requested to submit a report describing their experiments. After the review process, if the paper will have been accepted, authors will be requested to submit the Camera-Ready Version of the paper, according to the reviewers' recommendations. For each Camera-ready paper’s submission, three items are required:
Paper Submission Submission of papers is to be done electronically through the Easychair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clef2018). Using EasyChair for Paper Submission
Please, note that for final Working Notes we'll use the metadata of Easychair submission, so pay attention to insert authors names, title and affiliations correctly. Deadlines Please remember that the strict deadline for receiving the final electronic versions of all papers is:
Copyright Form During the upload of the Camera-Ready version of the accepted papers, a scanned and signed version of the CLEF copyright form (http://clef2018.clef-initiative.eu/resources/CLEF2018-WorkingNotes-CopyrightForm.txt) must be uploaded with the source and PDF files of the submission (otherwise the submission will not be published in the final working notes). GUIDELINES TO PREPARE REPORTS FOR CLEF2018 WORKING NOTES The working notes papers are technical reports written in English and describing the participating systems and the conducted experiments. They should provide, at least, the following information:
The papers must be formatted according to Springer Instructions for Authors, whose Word and Latex templates are available at: MAX LENGTH: no upper page limit is set, as papers are published only electronically.
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