Interested groups can participate in any one or in all three tracks.
Newcomers to the activity may well choose to begin with the monolingual track in the first year and work up to the others in later years. The main task in CLEF 2001 requires searching a multilingual document collection for relevant documents. This year s multilingual collection contains English, German, French, Italian and Spanish documents. The official topic languages for CLEF 2001 will be English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese. However, it is expected that topics will also be made available in additional languages, such as Finnish, Greek, Russian and Swedish.