FIRE 2016

The 8th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2016 will be held in Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. We are seeking the submission of high-quality and original full papers, short papers and demos. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of IR.Authors are encouraged to describe work in progress and late-breaking research results.

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• IR theory and practice
• Web and social media IR
• User Aspects
• IR system architectures
• Content representation and processing
• Evaluation
• Multimedia and cross-media IR
• Application
  

For detailed list of topics visit: http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2016/call_for_papers

Submission Guidelines are available at: http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/submission

• Fabrizio Sebastiani, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation
• Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
• Hoa T. Dang​, NIST USA
• Thomas Mandl, Universität Hildesheim, Germany

• Consumer Health Information Search (CHIS)
• Detecting Paraphrases in Indian Languages (DPIL)
• Information Extraction from Microblogs posted during disaster
  
• Persian Plagiarism Detection (PersianPlagDet)
• Personality Recognition in SOurce COde (PR-SOCO)
• Shared Task on Mixed Script Information Retrieval
  

•     July 30, 2016       August 31, 2016 – Short Papers due
•     August 20, 2016 August 31, 2016 – Full papers due
•     Oct 15, 2016 – Full papers and Short paper acceptance notifications
•     Oct 31, 2016 – Camera ready copies due
•     Oct 31, 2016 – Early bird Registration deadline
•     Dec 8-10, 2016 – Conference held in Kolkata, India