FIRE 2015 - Seventh meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation

FIRE 2015: Seventh meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation
Submission Deadline: August 25, 2015
December 4-6th 2015
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology,
Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
http://irsi.res.in/fire
FIRE 2015 invites submissions of full and short papers from information retrieval, natural language processing and related domains.
The 7th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2015 will be held in Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India. Started in 2008 with the aim of building a South Asian counterpart for TREC, CLEF and NTCIR, FIRE has since evolved continuously to meet the new challenges in multilingual information access. It has since expanded to include new domains like plagiarism detection, legal information access, mixed script information retrieval and spoken document retrieval to name a few.
This year's edition of FIRE will show a marked departure from its status as an evaluation workshop for South Asian languages. FIRE 2015 while continuing its traditional evaluation activities, will for the first time introduce a peer-reviewed conference track. ACM DL will publish the conference proceedings, and the workshop proceedings will be published by CEUR-WS.
Topics
Relevant topics for FIRE 2015 include, but are not limited to:
Information Retrieval
Multilingual and cross-lingual information access
Domain specific Information Access
Natural Language Processing
Interactive Information Retrieval / Human Computer Interaction
Computational Linguistics
Semantic Web
Other related fields (Social media analysis, Digital Library, Enterprise search, etc)
Invited Speakers
Charles L. A. Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
Doug Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar
Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Évora, Portugal.
Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna
Tracks
Arabic Plagiarism Detection (AraPlagDet)
Cross-Language detection of SOurce COde re-use (CL-SOCO)
Mixed Script Information Retrieval
Information Access in Legal Domain
Automated Story Illustration
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must describe substantial, original and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. All submissions to FIRE 2015 will be reviewed on the basis of originality, relevance, importance, and clarity by at least three reviewers. The review process will be double-blind and authors should not mention their names or institutional details anywhere in the paper. Authors should refer to themselves in the 3rd person when citing their own work. Expressions like “In our earlier work...” or “We previously showed that...” should be avoided when submitting the paper for review.
There will be two categories of papers:
Full papers: Full paper submissions should not exceed 6 pages with 2 additional pages for references or appendices if needed/applicable.
Short papers: Short paper length will be up to 3 pages plus 1 additional page for references or appendices if needed/applicable.
Authors will decide the category of their paper depending on the length of the paper. They will also decide the area/track of their submissions. The submitted papers must follow ACM SIG’s template available on http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t.... Submission links will be made available on FIRE website. The only accepted format for submissions is PDF. Papers which do not conform to the requirements may get rejected without review.
Please note that it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the PDF submission has been uploaded successfully (we suggest that you try downloading your paper again yourself, to check).
Important dates
August 25, 2015 ? Full and Short papers due
Oct 15, 2015 ? Full and short papers acceptance notifications
Oct 31, 2015 ? Camera ready copies due
Oct 31, 2015 ? Early bird Registration deadline
Nov 15, 2015 ? Latest possible working notes due
Dec 4-6, 2015 ? Conference held in Gandhinagar, India
Program Committee
Michel Beigbeder - Mines Saint-Étienne, France
Pinaki Bhaskar - IIT CNR, Pisa, Italy
Charlie L.A Clarke - University of Waterloo, Canada
Paul Clough - University of Sheffield, UK
Kevyn Collins-Thompson - University of Michigan, USA
Danish Contractor - IBM India
Kareem Darwish - Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Sourish Dasgupta - DAIICT
Luanne Freund - University of British Colombia, Canada
Debasis Ganguly - Dublin City University, Ireland
Manuel Gomez - National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico
Brigitte Grau - Informatics Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, France
Mark Hall - Edge Hill University , UK
Donna Harman - National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Hideo Joho - Information and Media Studies Yubinbango, Tsukuba, Japan
Hardik Joshi - Gujarat University
Jaap Kamps - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Evangelos Kanoulas - Google Inc., Switzerland
Diane Kelly - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Krishna Kummamuru - IBM, India
Michael Kurtz - Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Johannes Leveling - Dublin City University, Ireland
Mihai Lupu - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Walid Magdy - Quatar Computing Research Institue, Qatar
Marie Moens - Departement Computerwetenschappen - KU Leuven, Netherlands
Henning Muller - University of Geneva, Switzerland
Sarif Naik - Philips Research, India
Sudip Naskar - Jadavpur University, India
Jian Nie - University of Montreal, Canada
Doug Oard - University of Maryland, USA
Hemant Patil - DAIICT
Carol Peters - Institute of Science and Technology Information, Pisa, Italy
Vivien Petras - HU Berlin, Germany
Florina Piroi - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Paulo Quaresma - Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Nitin Ramrakhiyani - TRDDC, India
Paolo Rosso - Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Jacques Savoy - University of Neuchâtel, Portugal
Ian Soboroff - National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Efstathios Stamatatos - University of the Aegean, Greece
Bart Thomee - Yahoo! Research, USA
Eliane Toms - University of Sheffield, UK
Theodora Tsikrika - Centre for Research and Technolog-Hellas, Greece
Jerome White - New York University, NY, USA
David Zellhoefer - BTU Cottbus, Germany
Overall co-ordinators
Prasenjit Majumder (DA-IICT)
Mandar Mitra (ISI Kolkata)
For queries related to conference please email us at [fire-AT-isical.ac.in]