FIRE 2025

The 17th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation will be held at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. FIRE was started in 2008 with the aim of building a South Asian counterpart for TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR. It has since evolved continuously to support and encourage research within the information retrieval community and has acted as a unique platform to foster interaction between the researchers of academia and industry. FIRE has continuously adapted to meet the new challenges in multilingual information access and frameworks for large-scale evaluation of information retrieval methods, primarily focusing on text.

In its 17th year, FIRE will continue with the peer-reviewed conference track, shared tasks, industry track, and doctoral consortium. The peer-reviewed conference track aims to encourage novel research among early-stage researchers. The shared tasks aim to bolster research in IR and NLP among the larger research community. The industry track aims to provide the audience with a view of the application of IR research in the industry. The doctoral consortium aims to provide a platform for PhD scholars working in this field and support them through mentorship to improve their research.

Note : Non-Indian nationals would require visas