FIRE 2024

Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation

DAIICT , Gandhinagar

12th - 15th December


All time written are in IST
Day 1 : Thursday, 12 December (Tutorial Day)
Venue - DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 11:30 Tutorial 1
  • TBA
11:45 - 12:45 Tutorial 2
  • Transforming Business Text Processing with Generative AI - Manjira Sinha / Tirthankar Dasgupta
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 - 14:45 Tutorial 2
  • Transforming Business Text Processing with Generative AI - Manjira Sinha / Tirthankar Dasgupta
14:45 - 16:45 Tutorial 3
  • In-Context Learning in LLMs to Improve Retrieval Models - Nilanjan Sinhababu


Day 2 : Friday, 13 December
Venue - DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15 - 10:00 Keynote address:
  • TBA - Allan Hanbury
10:00 - 10:15 Tea Break
10:15 - 11:00 Track overview (~15 minutes each)
Session Chair: Kripabandhu Ghosh
  • Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM) - Parth Mehta
  • Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages (HASOC) - Thomas Mandal
  • Personalized Information Retrieval (PIR) - TBA
11:00 - 12:00 Track overview (~15 minutes each)
Session Chair: Kripabandhu Ghosh
  • Spoken-Query Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for the Indic Languages (SqCLIR) - Bhargav Dave
  • Code-Mixed Information Retrieval from Social Media Data - TBA
  • CryptOQA: Opinion Extraction and Question Answering from CryptoCurrency-Related Tweets and Reddit posts - Koustav Rudra
12:00 - 12:45 Keynote address:
  • TBA - Mohammad Alian Nejadi
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Track overview (~15 minutes each)
Session Chair: Kripabandhu Ghosh
  • Conversational System for Differential Diagnosis of GI Cancer - Manjira Sinha / Tirthankar Dasgupta
  • Word-level Language Identification in Dravidian Languages (CoLi-Dravidian) - Sharal Coelho
  • Information Retrieval in Software Engineering (IRSE) - Srijoni Majumdar
  • Sarcasm Identification of Dravidian Languages Tamil & Malayalam (DravidianCodeMix) - D. Thenmozhi
14:30 - 15:30 Conference Track
15:30 - 15:45 Tea Break
15:45 - 16:45 Spoken-Query Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for the Indic Languages (SqCLIR) Presentation (~5 minutes each)
Session Chair: Bhargav Dave
  • Spoken Query Retrieval in Monolingual Contexts with Whisper and SBERT Models - Prabhu Ram Nagrajan / Livin
Code-Mixed Information Retrieval from Social Media Data Presentation (~5 minutes each)
Session Chair: TBA
Personalized Information Retrieval (PIR) Presentation (~5 minutes each)
Session Chair: TBA


Day 3 : Saturday 14 December
Venue - DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
9:00 - 10:00 Information Retrieval in Software Engineering (IRSE) Presentation
Session Chair: TBA
10:00 - 10:15 Tea Break
10:15 - 11:00 Keynote address:
  • TBA - Yiqun Liu
11:00-12:00 Sarcasm Identification of Dravidian Languages Tamil & Malayalam (DravidianCodeMix) - Presentation (~5 minutes each)
Session Chair: TBA
12:00 - 12:45 Sarcasm Identification of Dravidian Languages Tamil & Malayalam (DravidianCodeMix) - Presentation (~5 minutes each)
Session Chair: TBA
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM) - Presentation (~5 minutes each)
Session Chair: TBA
14:30 - 15:30 Keynote address:
  • On Soft Permutation, Set Alignment, and Graph Matching - Soumen Chakrabarti
15:30 - 15:45 Tea Break
15:45 - 16:15 Industry Track Keynote address
Session Chair: TBA
16:15 - 16:45 Doctoral Consortium - TBA
17:15 - 18:15 Steering Commitee


Day 4 : Sunday, 15 December
Venue - DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
9:00 - 10:00 Conversational System for Differential Diagnosis of GI CancerTrack Presentation (~5 minutes each)
Session Chair: TBA
10:00 - 10:15 Tea Break
10:15 - 11:00 Keynote address:
  • Hate Speech: Platform Needs, Detection Technologies and Regulation - Thomas Mandl
11:00-12:00 Word-level Language Identification in Dravidian Languages Presentation (~5 minutes each)
Session Chair: Sharal Coelho
  • Prompt Engineering Using GPT for Word-Level Code-Mixed Language Identification in Low-Resource Dravidian Languages - Aniket Deroy / Subhankar Maity
  • Enhancing Word-Level Language Identification in Code-Mixed Dravidian Languages - Kavya G
  • Finding the Right Language Model Goes a Long Way Towards Accurate Language Identification-rob van der goot (Online)
  • Machine Learning Based Model for Word-level Language Identification in Code-mixed Kannada Texts - Abdollah Abadian (Online)
  • Word-Level Language Identification in Dravidian Code-Mixed Text Using Machine Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Models and Vectorization Techniques - Ponsubash Raj R (Online)
12:00 - 12:45 Keynote address:
  • Flexible Representations with Learned Sparse Retrieval - Andrew Yates
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in English and Indo-Aryan Languages (HASOC) - Presentation (~5 minutes each)
Session Chair: Thomas Mandal
  • HateGPT: Unleashing GPT-3.5 Turbo to Combat Hate Speech on X - Aniket Deroy / Subhankar Maity
  • Zero-Shot and Multitask Learning Synergy for Robust Hate Speech Detection across English and Bangla - Kavya G
14:30 - 15:30 CryptOQA: Opinion Extraction and Question Answering from CryptoCurrency-Related Tweets and Reddit posts - Presentation (~5 minutes each)
Session Chair: Koustav Rudra
  • CryptoLLM: Unleashing the Power of Prompted LLMs for SmartQnA and Classification of Crypto Posts - Aniket Deroy / Subhankar Maity
  • Navigating Crypto Conversations: A Multi-Level Approach to Classify Cryptocurrency Opinions on Social Media - Kavya G
  • CryptoOpinionMining: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchical and Flat Classification Models for Social Media Content - Rudra Roy
  • From Tweets to Trends: Classifying Cryptocurrency-Related Posts Using State-of-the-Art Transformer Models - Rakshit Kumar Singh / Kunal Kushwaha
15:30 - 15:45 Tea Break
15:45 - 16:45 Conference Paper Presentation: TBA

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