Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction 15th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2024, Grenoble, France, September 9–12, 2024, Proceedings, Part I

The two volume set LNCS 14958 + 14959 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2024, held in Grenoble, France, during September 9–12, 2024.

The proceedings contain 11 conference papers; 6 best of CLEF 2023 Labs' papers, and 14 Lab overview papers accepted from 45 submissions. In addition an overview paper on the CLEF activities in the last 25 years is included. The CLEF conference and labs of the evaluation forum deal with topics in information access from different perspectives, in any modality and language, focusing on experimental information retrieval (IR). 

CLEF 25th Anniversary.- What Happened in CLEF For Another While.- Conference Papers.- Sexism Identification on TikTok A Multimodal AI Approach with Text Audio and Video.- Knowledge Acquisition Passage Retrieval Corpus Ranking Models and Evaluation Resources.- Assessing Document Sanitization for Controlled Information Release and Retrieval in Data Marketplaces.- The Impact of Web Search Result Quality on Decision Making.- Improving Laypeople Familiarity with Medical Terms by Informal Medical Entity Linking.- Mapping the Media Landscape Predicting Factual Reporting and Political Bias Through Web Interactions.- Under sampling strategies for better transformer based classifications models.- Classification of Social Media Hateful Screenshots Inciting Violence and Discrimination.- SessionPrint Accelerating kNN via Locality Sensitive Hashing for Session based News Recommendation.- Who Will Evaluate the Evaluators Exploring the Gen IR User Simulation Space.- De Noising Document Classification Benchmarks via Prompt based Rank Pruning A Case Study.- Best of CLEF 2023 Labs.- Best of Touche 2023 task 4 Testing Data Augmentation and Label Propagation for Multilingual multi target Stance Detection.- Leveraging LLM Generated Data for Detecting Depression Symptoms on Social Media.- From Sentence Embeddings to Large Language Models to Detect and Understand Wordplay.- Replicability Measures for Longitudinal Information Retrieval Evaluation.- SimpleText Best of Labs in CLEF2023 Scientific Text Simplification Using Multi Prompt Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding.- Large Language Model Cascades and Persona-based In context Learning for Multilingual Sexism Detection.