FIRE 2017

Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

8th - 10th December

SCHEDULE

[Venue: Materials Research Centre (MRC) Auditorium]

Day 1 : 8th December, 2017

      09:00 - 09:30

Registration
Pre-Conference Tutorial
      09:30 - 11:00 Keyword Queries in Product Search by Muthusamy Chelliah and Saptarshi Ghosh
Tea Break
      11:30 - 13:00 Keyword Queries in Product Search (continued)
Lunch Break
      14:00 - 14:30 Inauguration
      14:30 - 15:15 Keynote talk by Joemon Jose
Tea Break
      15:30 - 17:30 Track Overviews
                  – Gender Identification in Russian texts (Tatiana Litvinova)
                  – Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh)
                  – Indian Native Language Identification (Anand Kumar M)
                  – Information Retrieval from Legal Documents (Kripabandhu Ghosh,Saptarshi Ghosh)
                  – Event Extraction from newswires and social media text in Indian Languages (Pattabhi RK Rao)
      18:00 - 19:00 Steering committee
Day 2 : 9th December, 2017

      10:00 - 10:45

Keynote talk by Thomas Mandl
      10:45 - 11:10 Conference Presentations (Full Papers)
                  – A Comparison of Automatic Search Query Enhancement Algorithms That Utilise Wikipedia as a Source of A Priori Knowledge (Kyle Goslin)
Tea Break
      11:25 - 12:15 Conference Presentations (continued)
                  – Language Identification in Mixed Script (Nagesh Bhattu Sristy)
                  – Improving Similar Question Retrieval using a Novel Tripartite Neural Network based Approach (Manjira Sinha)
      12:15 - 13:00 Conference Presentations (Short Papers)
                  – Feature Space of Deep Learning and its Importance (Amit Agarwal)
                  – A Comparative Study of Named Entity Recognition for Telugu (Aruna M.)
                  – Segmentation of Merged Lines and Script Identification in Handwritten Bilingual Documents (Ranjana Z.)
Lunch
      14:00 - 15:00 Indian Native Language Identification (Track Presentations)
                  – Hamada Nayel
                  – Kawshik Kannan
                  – Sowmya Lakshmi B S
      15:00 - 15:45 Keynote talk by Ann Blandford
Tea Break
      16:00 - 17:30 Doctoral Consortium Presentations
                  – Why-type Question classification in Question Answering System (Manvi Breja)
                  – Biomedical Information Retrieval (Jainisha Sankhavara)
                  – An Insight into role of wordnet and language network for rffective IR from hindi text documents (Manju Lata J.)
                  – Microblog Processing: A Study (Sandip Modha)
      19:00 - Onwards Conference Banquet
Day 3 : 10th December, 2017

      10:00 - 10:45

Keynote talk by Jaap Kamps
      10:45 - 11:25 Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (Track Presentations)
                  – Thomas Mandl
                  – Bhaskar Gautam
Tea Break
      11:40 - 12:00 Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (Continue)
                  – Anurag Banerjee and Siba Sankar Sahu
      12:00 - 13:00 Information Retrieval from Legal Documents (Track Presentations)
                  – Barathi Ganesh Hullathy Balakrishnan
                  – Kawshik kannan
                  – Reshma U
Lunch Break
      14:00 - 14:40 Gender Identification in Russian texts (Track Presentation)
                  – Barathi Ganesh
                  – Vivek Vinayan
      14:40 - 15:15 Talk by Julia Kiseleva
Tea Break
      15:30 - 16:30 Event Extraction from newswires and social media text in Indian Languages (Track Presentations)
                  – Alapan
                  – Nageshbhattu
                  – Anand Kumar
      16:30 - 16:45 Closing Note


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