This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2012. Furthermore, the books contains 2 keynote papers. The papers are organized in topical sections named: benchmarking and evaluation initiatives;

Analysis and Refinement of Cross-Lingual Entity Linking.- Seven Years of INEX Interactive Retrieval Experiments – Lessons and Challenges.- Bringing the Algorithms to the Data: Cloud–Based Benchmarking for Medical Image Analysis.- Going beyond CLEF-IP: The ‘Reality’ for Patent Searchers?.- MusiClef: Multimodal Music Tagging Task.- Information Access Generating Pseudo Test Collections for Learning to Rank Scientific Articles.- Effects of Language and Topic Size in Patent IR: An Empirical Study.- Cross-Language High Similarity Search Using a Conceptual Thesaurus.- The Appearance of the Giant Component in Descriptor Graphs and Its Application for Descriptor Selection.- Hidden Markov Model for Term Weighting in Verbose Queries.- Evaluation Methodologies and Infrastructure DIRECTions: Design and Specification of an IR Evaluation Infrastructure.- Penalty Functions for Evaluation Measures of Unsegmented Speech Retrieval.- Cumulated Relative Position: A Metric for Ranking Evaluation.- Better than Their Reputation? On the Reliability of Relevance Assessments with Students.- Comparing IR System Components Using Beanplots.- Language Independent Query Focused Snippet Generation.- A Test Collection to Evaluate Plagiarism by Missing or Incorrect References.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in September 2012. The 14 papers and 3 poster abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. Furthermore, the books contains 2 keynote papers. The papers are organized in topical sections named: benchmarking and evaluation initiatives; information access; and evaluation methodologies and infrastructure.

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