FIRE 2016

The 8th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2016 will be held in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 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.

Since 2015 FIRE started a peer reviewed conference track along with evaluation tasks. We invite full and short papers from information retrieval, natural language processing and related domains. Please refer to the call for papers or submission guidelines for more information.

• Consumer Health Information Search (CHIS)
• Detecting Paraphrases in Indian Languages (DPIL)
• Information Extraction from Microblogs Posted during Disasters
• Persian Plagiarism Detection (PersianPlagDet)
• Personality Recognition in SOurce COde (PR-SOCO)
• Shared Task on Mixed Script Information Retrieval (MSIR)
  
• Shared Task on Code Mix Entity Extraction in Indian Languages (CMEE-IL)

• Fabrizio Sebastiani, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation
• Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
• Hoa T. Dang​, NIST, U.S.A.
• Thomas Mandl, Universität Hildesheim, Germany
• Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
• Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, U.K.
• Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Patna
  
• Matt Lease, University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
• Gareth Jones, Dublin City University
  
• Frank Hopfgartner, University of Glasgow
  

• Lipika Dey, Prinicipal Scientist, TCS Innovation Labs