FIRE 2021

Track overview (~15 minutes each)

(Session Chair: Dr Parth Mehta & Prof Thomas Mandl)

• Hate Speech and offensive content detection (HASOC)
• Causality-driven Ad hoc Information Retrieval (CAIR)
• Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis)
• Artificial Intelligence for Legal Assistance (AILA)
• Sentiment Analysis of Dravidian Languages in Code-Mixed Text
• Fake News Detection in the Urdu Language (UrduFake)

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Conference Paper Presentations (~20 minutes each)

(Session Chair: Dr. Debasis Ganguly)

Topic: Information and Knowledge

1. Query Change as a Contextual Markov Model for Simulating User Search Behaviour - Saber Zerhoudi
2. From Opinion Mining to Improvement Mining : Understanding Product Improvements from User Reviews - Roshni Ramnani
3. Data Augmentation for Layperson’s Medical Entity Linking Task - Annisa Maulida Ningtyas

Conference Paper Presentations (~20 minutes each)

(Session Chair: Surupendu Gangopadhyay)

Topic: AI Applications

1. Towards Automatic Green Claim Detection -  Joseph Kobti
2. Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search on Privacy-aware Encoding of User Locations to Identify Susceptible Infections in Simulated Epidemics - Chandan Biswas
3. Smart City Umbrella Ontology Context -Driven Framework for Traffic Planning - Annu Mor

Plenary Talk

Fair and Desirable Allocation of Exposure in Ranking - Thorsten Joachims

(Session Chair: Prof. Samiran Chattopadhyay)

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Track Presentations

Hate speech and offensive content detection 

(Session Chair: HASOC Track Co-ordinators)

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Hackathon Presentations

Word Segmentation and Morphological Parsing for Sanskrit Presentations

(Session Chair: Jainisha Sankhavara)

Conference Paper Presentations (~20 minutes each)

(Session Chair: Dr. Debasis Ganguly)

Topic: Natural Language Processing

1. Meta-Learning for Offensive Language Detection in Code-Mixed Texts - Gautham Suresh
2. A Survey of Recent Neural Network Models on Code-Mixed Indian Hate Speech Data. - Suman Dowlagar
3. Leveraging Transfer learning techniques- BERT, RoBERTa, ALBERT and DistilBERT for Fake Review Detection - Priyanka Gupta

Plenary Talk

Effective and Efficient Neural Re-Ranking - Allan Hanbury

(Session Chair: Surupendu Gangopadhyay)

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (ALTARS 2022 presentation)

Track Presentations

Artificial Intelligence for Legal Assistance Presentations

(Session Chair: AILA Track co-ordinators)

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Track Presentations

Causality-driven Ad hoc Information Retrieval Presentations

(Session Chair: CAIR Track co-ordinators)

Conference Paper Presentations (~20 minutes each)

(Session Chair: Dr. Debasis Ganguly)

Topic: Natural Language Processing

1. Zero-shot reductive paraphrasing for digitally semi-literate - Prawaal Sharma
2. Attention based end to end Speech Recognition for Voice Search in Hindi and English - Raviraj Joshi

Plenary Talk

Topic-Driven Sentiment Analysis - Yulan He

(Session Chair: Prof. Thomas Mandl)

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Track Presentations

Sentiment Analysis of Dravidian Languages in Code-Mixed Text Presentations

(Session Chair: Dravidian Track co-ordinator)

Conference Paper Presentation

From Opinion Mining to Improvement Mining : Understanding Product Improvements from User Reviews - Roshni Ramnani

Plenary Talk

Elizabeth Churchill

(Session Chair: Prasenjit Majumder)

Plenary Talk

Soumen Chakrabarti

(Session Chair: Pabitra Mitra)

Track Presentations

Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters Presentations

(Session Chair: IRMiDis Track Co-ordinator)

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