FIRE 2025

Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi

17th - 20th December


All time written are in IST
Day 1 : Wednesday, 17 December
Venue - Dev and Vardhana Goswami Lecture Theatre, IIT(BHU) Varanasi
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Inauguration & Opening Ceremony
9:30 - 10:00 Hi-Tea
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote address : Joemon Jose
"Beyond Hostility: Detecting Subtle and Overt Forms of Online Conflict with Multi-Objective Learning"
Session Chair: Jaap Kamps
11:00 - 11:45 Misinformation Detection and Prompt Recovery (PROMID)
Session Chair: TBD
11:45 - 12:30 Multilingual Story Illustration: Bridging Cultures through AI Artistry (MUSIA)
Session Chair: Krishna Tewari, Supriya Chanda
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Code-Mixed Information Retrieval from Social Media Data (CMIR)
Session Chair: Supriya Chanda
14:30 - 15:30 Keynote address : Jaap Kamps
"How to Simplify Scientific Text (and Nothing More)?"
Session Chair: Joemon Jose
15:30 - 15:45 Tea Break
15:45 - 17:00 Offensive Language Identification in Dravidian Languages (DravidianCodeMix)
Session Chair: Prasanna Kumar Kumaresan
17:30 - 18:45 Steering Committee Meeting


Day 2 : Thursday, 18 December
Venue - Dev and Vardhana Goswami Lecture Theatre, IIT(BHU) Varanasi
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Information Retrieval in Software Engineering (IRSE)
Session Chair: Srijoni Majumdar
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote address : Bhaskar Mitra
"Emancipatory Information Retrieval: Radically Reorienting Information Retrieval Research to Resist Corporate and Authoritarian Capture of our Information Ecosystems"
Session Chair: Liana Ermakova
10:30 - 10:45 Tea Break
10:45 - 11:30 Information Retrieval in Software Engineering (IRSE)
Session Chair: Srijoni Majumdar
Spoken-Query Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for the Indic Languages (SqCLIR)
Session Chair: Bhargav Dave
11:30 - 12:30 Research Highlight Generation from Scientific Papers (SciHigh)
Session Chair: Tohida Rehman
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Conference Paper Presentation(~10 minutes each)
Session Chair: Debasis Ganguly
  • Novel Zero-Shot Framework for Sanskrit-English Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval: Kuricheti (Online)
  • Cross-Lingual Transfer vs. Minimal Fine-Tuning for Indic Question Answering: An Empirical Study on the Indic-QA : Manash Lahkar
  • Analyzing Abusive Content in Indian Vernacular Languages: A Case Study of Marathi and Bangla: Harshvardhan Nerpagar
  • Towards Ayurveda Information Retrieval – Challenges and Opportunities: Vandana Dhingra
14:30 - 15:30 Keynote address : Utpal Garain
"On Multi-role Alignment of Language Models"
Session Chair: Ingo Frommholz
15:30 - 15:45 Tea Break
15:45 - 17:00 Cross-Lingual Mathematical Information Retrieval (CLMIR)
Session Chair: Pankaj Kundan Dadure
After 18:00 Banquet Dinner


Day 3 : Friday, 19 December
Venue - Dev and Vardhana Goswami Lecture Theatre, IIT(BHU) Varanasi
8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Conference Paper Presentation(~10 minutes each)
Session Chair: Debasis Ganguly
  • MDA GenUro: Semantically Inclined Medical Document Annotation for Genito-Urinary and Urological Pathology: Mohammed Salman S A
  • From Climate Headlines to Stock Trends: A Sentiment-Aware Financial Model: Diya Saha
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote address : Ingo Frommholz
"Information Overload in Academia – Challenges and Opportunities for IR Research"
Session Chair: Thomas Mandl
10:30 - 10:45 Tea Break
10:45 - 11:30 Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Memes in Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati and Bodo (HASOC-meme)
Session Chair: Thomas Mandl, Koyel Ghosh
11:30 - 12:30 Keynote address : Mark Sanderson
"LLM as an Evaluation Forum?"
Session Chair: Prasenjit Majumder
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Conference Paper Presentation(~10 minutes each)
Session Chair: Debasis Ganguly
  • Soft Prompt Improves Direct Search Responses: Nilanjan Sinhababu
  • ConVart: A Framework for Evaluating Confidence and Variability in Large Language Models for Domain-Specific Reliability: Diya Saha
  • EventTempEx: A Tool for Interpreting Event-Anchored Temporal Expressions: Kishan Gurumurthy
  • Automating Exam Evaluation Using Generative AI (GenAI): Sandeep Udmale
14:30 - 15:30 Hate Speech and Offensive Content Identification in Memes in Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati and Bodo (HASOC-meme)
Session Chair: Thomas Mandl, Koyel Ghosh
15:30 - 15:45 Tea Break
15:45 - 17:00 Industry Track


Day 4 : Saturday, 20 December
Venue - Dev and Vardhana Goswami Lecture Theatre, IIT(BHU) Varanasi
9:00 - 9:30 Opinion Extraction and Question Answering from CryptoCurrency-Related Tweets and Reddit posts (CryptOQA)
Session Chair: Kripabandhu Ghosh
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote address : Liana Ermakova
"Smart Tools, Critical Minds: How Users Shape the Reliability of AI"
Session Chair: Sukomal Pal
10:30 - 10:45 Tea Break
10:45 - 11:30 Word-Level Identification of Languages in Dravidian Languages (WILD)
Session Chair: Asha Hegde, Thomas Mandl
11:30 - 12:30 Varanasi Tourism in Question Answer System (VATIKA)
Session Chair: Praveen Gatla
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:30 Conference Paper Presentation(~10 minutes each)
Session Chair: Debasis Ganguly
  • Dynamics of Character Embeddings in Indian Mythology: A Physics-Informed Neural Networks Approach: Anish Goswami
  • Prosodic Features as Universal Ranking Signals: Cross-Lingual Speech Summarization in Indic Languages: Priyanjana Chowdhury
  • HALO-GPT Hindi Active Learning with Oracle GPT-3.5: Ajanta Maurya
14:30 - 15:30 Keynote address : Arun Verma
"NLP in Finance: Sentiment analysis, Topic Modeling and Geopolitical biases in LLMs"
Session Chair: Mark Sanderson
15:30 - 15:45 Tea Break
15:45 - 17:00 Photo and Closing Ceremony

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