FIRE 2015

The 7th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2015 will be held in Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India. Started in 2008 with the aim of building a South Asian counterpart for TREC, CLEF and NTCIR, FIRE has since evolved continuously to meet the new challenges in multilingual information access. It has expanded to include new domains like plagiarism detection, legal information access, mixed script information retrieval and spoken document retrieval to name a few.

This year's edition of FIRE will show a marked departure from its status as an evaluation workshop for South Asian languages. FIRE 2015 while continuing its traditional evaluation activities, will for the first time introduce a peer-reviewed conference track. We invite full and short papers from information retrieval, natural language processing and related domains. ACM DL will publish the conference proceedings, and the workshop proceedings will be published by CEUR-WS.

• Björn Gambäck, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
  
• Doug Oard, University of Maryland, USA
  
• Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
  
• Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
• Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation
  
• Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Evora, Portugal
  
• Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
  

• Mayur Datar, Principal Data Scientist, Flipkart
• Girish Keshav Palshikar, Principal Scientist, Tata Consultancy Services
  

• Arabic Plagiarism Detection (AraPlagDet)
• Cross-Language detection of SOurce COde re-use (CL-SOCO)
• Mixed Script Information Retrieval
  
• Information Access in Legal Domain
• Automated Story Illustration
• Entity Extraction from Social Media Text - Indian Languages (ESM-IL)