FIRE 2015

Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation

DAIICT , Gandhinagar

4 - 6 December

SCHEDULE [pdf]

Day 1 : 4th December, 2015

09:30 – 10:30

Registration
10:30 – 11:00Inauguration

TEA BREAK

11:15 – 12:00Doug Oard - Making Lawyers Happy [ppt]
12:00 – 13:00Track Overviews
Cross-Language detection of Source Code re-use (Esaú Villatoro-Tello) [ppt]
Shared Task on Mixed Script Information Retrieval (Monojit Choudhury) [ppt]
Arabic Plagiarism Detection (Kareem Darwish)

LUNCH

14:30 – 14:45Track Overview (Continue)
Automated Story Illustration (Gareth Jones)
Entity Extraction from Social Media Text - Indian Languages (Pattabhi RK Rao)
14:45 – 15:30Jaap Kamps - What can you do with a Semantically Annotated Web in your Pocket ?

TEA BREAK

15:45 – 16:45 Track Talks - Entity Extraction from Social Media Text - Indian Languages [zip]
17:15-Steering Committee meeting
Day 2 : 5th December, 2015

10:00 – 10:45

Charles Clarke - Dynamic Information Retrieval Evaluation [ppt]
10:45 – 11:30Conference track papers
Eric Harth - Document Retrieval Metrics for Program Understanding [ppt]
Mijail Kabadjov - OnForumS: The Shared Task on Online Forum Summarisation at MultiLing'15 [ppt]

TEA BREAK

11:45 – 12:15Conference track papers (continued)
Gareth Jones - Context-driven Dimensionality Reduction for Clustering Text Documents
12:15 – 13:00 Track Talks - Shared Task on Mixed Script Information Retrieval [zip]

LUNCH

14:00 – 14:30Track Talks - Shared Task on Mixed Script Information Retrieval (Continue)
14:30 – 15:15Kareem Darwish - IR Meets Social Science

TEA BREAK

15:30 – 16:15 Track Talks - Shared Task on Mixed Script Information Retrieval (Continue)
16:15 – 17:00Other Evaluation Forums
18:30-Poster Session & Banquet
Day 3 : 6th December, 2015

09:30 – 10:15

Paulo Quaresma - Using Semantic Information to Improve IR systems
10:15 – 10:45 Track talks - CLSOCO [zip]
10:45 – 11:15Conference track papers (continued)
Alexander Kotov - Leveraging User Meta-Data in Information Retrieval and Textual Data Mining

TEA BREAK

11:30 – 13:00Industry Session
Mayur Datar- Machine Learning Challenges in E-Commerce [pdf]
Girish Keshav Palshikar - HR Analytics in TCS


LUNCH

14:00 – 14:30 Track Talks - Automated Story Illustration [zip]
14:30 – 15:15Björn Gambäck - Computational linguistic capacity building:
Creating and collecting language
pro-cessing tools and resources for under-resourced languages [ppt]

TEA BREAK

15:30 – 16:15Gareth Jones
16:15 –16:30Closing Note