March 02, 2026 | BY Claire Nédellec
Event Notification Type:
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title:
PestCLEF-2026 Call for Participation
Contact Email:
Submission Deadline:
Thursday, 7 May 2026
PestCLEF2026 @ LifeCLEF & CLEF 2026
Shared Task on Knowledge Graph Extraction on Plant Pests from Web Documents
Call for Participation
We are pleased to announce the PestCLEF2026 shared task as part of the LifeCLEF evaluation lab at CLEF 2026.
Task
PestCLEF2026 is a knowledge graph extraction task framed as a document-level relation extraction problem. Target relations reflect ecological interactions and events relevant to plant health monitoring, which involve entities such as Host, Pest, Disease, Vector, and Location.
Important Dates
- Now: Registration is open and training data is released
- 23 April 2026: Registration closes
- 7 May 2026: Competition Deadline
- 28 May 2026: Deadline for submission of working note papers (CEUR-WS proceedings)
- 30 June 2026: Notification of acceptance of working note papers
- 6 July 2026: Camera-ready deadline
- 21–24 September 2026: CLEF 2026 Conference in Jena, Germany
Register and Participate
- Registration: https://clef-labs-registration.dipintra.it/registrationForm.php
- CLEF2026 Discord server (see #lifeclef): https://discord.gg/PEMh4a2YHV
- PestCLEF2026 homepage: https://www.imageclef.org/PestCLEF2026
- PestCLEF2026 Kaggle page: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/pest-clef-2026
Organizers
- Robert Bossy (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France)
- Claire Nédellec (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France)
- Marine Courtin (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France)
- Louise Deléger (Paris-Saclay University, INRAE, France)
Keep in touch via Kaggle or Discord. We are looking forward to your submission!