FIRE 2017

The 9th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2017 will be held in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 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.

Continuing the trend started in 2015, FIRE will consist of 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.

Note: The submission deadline for full and short paper has been extended to September 3, 2017

• Gender Identification in Russian texts (RusProfiling)
• Indian Native Language Identification (INLI)
• Information Retrieval from Legal Documents (IRLeD)
• Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis)
• Event Extraction from newswires and social media text in Indian Languages (EventXtractIL)
  

• Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherland
• Ann Blandford, University College London, United Kingdom
• Thomas Mandl, Universität Hildesheim, Germany
• Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom