2nd CFP: CLEF-Lab on Plagiarism Detection and Wikipedia Vandalism Detection, PAN'10

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Call for Participation:
Evaluation Campaign on Plagiarism Detection and Wikipedia Vandalism Detection
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           held in conjunction with the CLEF'10 conference
                  in Padua, Italy, September 20-23
                         http://pan.webis.de

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About the Campaign:
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Plagiarism detection in text documents is a challenging retrieval task:
today's detection systems are faced with intricate situations, such as
obfuscated plagiarism or plagiarism within and across languages.
Moreover, the source of a plagiarism case may be hidden in a large
collection of documents, or it may not be available at all. Informally,
the respective CLEF-Lab task can be described as follows:

 1. Plagiarism Detection. Given a set of suspicious documents and a set
    of source documents, the task is to find all plagiarized sections
    in the suspicious documents and, if available, the corresponding
    source sections.

Following the success of the 2009 campaign and based on our experience
we will provide a revised evaluation corpus consisting of artificial and
simulated plagiarism.

Vandalism has always been one of Wikipedia's biggest problems. However,