This paper summarizes the task design for iCLEF 2006 (the CLEF interactive track).
Compared to previous years, we have proposed a radically new task: searching images
in a naturally multilingual database, Flickr, which has millions of photographs shared
by people all over the planet, tagged and described in a wide variety of languages.
Participants are expected to build a multilingual search front-end to Flickr (using
Flickr’s search API) and study the behaviour of the users for a given set of searching
tasks. The emphasis is put on studying the process, rather than evaluating its outcome