This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the CLEF
Initiative CLEF 2017 held in Dublin Ireland in September 2017. The 7 full papers and 9
short papers presented together with 6 best of the labs papers were carefully reviewed and
selected from 38 submissions. In addition this volume contains the results of 10 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 range
of topics in the field of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation.
