This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the CLEF
Initiative CLEF 2016 held in Toulouse France in September 2016. The 10 full papers and 8
short papers presented together with 5 best of the labs papers were carefully reviewed and
selected from 36 submissions. In addition to these talks this volume contains the results of 7
benchmarking labs reporting their year long activities in overview talks and lab sessions. The
papers address all aspects of information access in any modality and language and cover a broad
rangeof topics in the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation.
