FIRE 2025

The 17th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2025 will be held at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. It will be an in-person conference. We are inviting proposals for half-day tutorials covering topics relevant to information retrieval (IR) and its applications. We welcome topics that range from the theoretical foundations of IR to practical applications, as well as tutorials on IR and machine learning (ML) systems. Each tutorial should cover a single topic in depth. Tutorial proposals should include details according to guidelines below.

Submission Guidelines

Proposals should be at most 4 pages (excluding references) must follow ACM SIG's template available on https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/taps-production-workflow. The only accepted format of submissions is PDF. We strongly encourage the proposers to attend and present in-person. Submissions should include:

• Title and abstract
• Duration: Half Day
• Proposed content of the tutorial
• Target Audience
• Speaker's bio: Name, affiliations, contact and short bio.

Submissions are not anonymous (reviewing will be single-blind) and should contain speaker details. Proposals which do not conform to the requirements are likely to be rejected without review.

All proposals should be submitted via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2025

Important dates 

Note: All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE Time Zone (Anywhere on Earth).

Presentation Requirements

If accepted, at least one author will have to register for the conference and present tutorial in-person.

Tutorial Co-ordinator

For queries related to conference please email us at [ clia@isical.ac.in, fire2025@itbhu.ac.in ]
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