FIRE 2020

The 12th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2020 will be held virtually in Hyderabad, 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, the 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.
Given the current COVID 19 situation FIRE 2020 will be conducted online

• Adam Wyner, Swansea University, UK
• Ellen M. Voorhees, NIST, USA
• Paul Clough, The University of Sheffield, UK
• Ajit Balakrishnan, Rediff.com, India

• Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Indo-European Languages (HASOC)
• Artificial Intelligence for Legal Assistance (AILA)
• Authorship Identification of SOurce COde (AI-SOCO)
• Sentiment Analysis of Dravidian Languages in Code-Mixed Text
• Cause-Effect Relation Extraction from Text (CEREX)
• Causality-driven Ad hoc Information Retrieval (CAIR)
• Retrieval from Conversational Dialogues (RCD)
• Fake News Detection in the Urdu Language (UrduFake)
• Anaphora Resolution from Social Media Text in Indian Languages
• Event Detection from News in Indian Languages (EDNIL)

• Women in Information Retreival (WIRe)