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

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). 

Lab Overviews.- Overview of BioASQ 2024 The twelfth BioASQ challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering.- Overview of the CLEF2024 CheckThat Lab Check Worthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities and Adversarial Robustness.- Overview of ELOQUENT 2024 shared tasks for evaluating generative language model quality.- Overview of eRisk 2024 Early Risk Prediction on the Internet.- Overview of EXIST 2024 Learning with Disagreement for Sexism Identification and Characterization in Tweets and Memes.- Intelligent Disease Progression Prediction Overview of iDPP CLEF 2024.- Overview of the ImageCLEF 2024 Multimedia retrieval in medical applications.- Overview of JOKER CLEF 2024 Automatic Humour Analysis.- Overview of LifeCLEF 2024 Challenges on Species Distribution Prediction and Identification.- Overview of the CLEF 2024 LongEval Lab on Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance.- Overview of PAN 2024 Multi Author Writing Style Analysis, Multilingual Text Detoxification, Oppositional Thinking Analysis, and Generative AI Authorship Verification.- Overview of QuantumCLEF 2024 The Quantum Computing Challenge for Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems at CLEF.- Overview of the CLEF 2024 SimpleText Track Improving Access to Scientific Texts for Everyone.- Overview of Touche 2024 Argumentation Systems.