Topics
Relevant topics for the CLEF 2017 Conference include but are not limited to:

• Information Access in any Language or Modality: information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc.

• Analytics for Information Retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis.

• Evaluation Initiatives: conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle.

• Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc.

• Technology Transfer: economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc.

• Interactive Information Retrieval Evaluation: the interactive evaluation of information retrieval systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc.

• Specific Application Domains: Information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, expert search, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, plants, etc.