FIRE 2012: 1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

[Prasenjit Majumder]

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          First

         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

          FIRE
              (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation)
         Workshop
                  Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
   17-19 December 2012

                      http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire
                  http://www.irsi.res.in/fire (mirror)

The success of TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR has clearly established the importance
of building reusable, large-scale standard test collections in Information
Access research. The Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE)
follows in the footsteps of TREC, CLEF and NTCIR with the following aims:

* to encourage research in South Asian language Information Access
 technologies by providing appropriate test collections;
* to explore new Information Retrieval / Access tasks that arise as our
 information needs evolve, and new needs emerge.


TASKS:
1. Ad-hoc monolingual retrieval in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi,
  Odia, Tamil
2. Ad-hoc cross-lingual retrieval
  - documents in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Odia and English
  - queries in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, and  English
3. CL!TR (Cross-Language !ndian Text Reuse)
4. SMS-based FAQ retrieval
5. Personalised IR

 Please check the FIRE website from time to time, as task definitions and
              guidelines evolve, and new tasks are defined.


IMPORTANT DATES: http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/dates.html
Corpus release    01 April 2012
Query release     01 May 2012
Run submission    15 August 2012

Qrel release 1    15 October 2012
Qrel release 2    15 November 2012
Working notes due 03 December 2012
Conference        17 - 19 Dec 2012


POSTERS: (*NEW*)
In addition to papers describing your participation in one or more tasks,
we invite short papers (2 pages) describing work on any topic related to
IR. These papers will be peer-reviewed; selected papers will be published
in the Working Notes and can be presented as posters during the Workshop.
Authors of some of these short papers will be invited to submit an extended
version for publication in the LNCS volume.


DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM: (*NEW*)
Doctoral students who have recently written, or are close to completing, a
thesis proposal (or equivalent), may also submit short papers (2 pages)
describing the proposed work and / or any preliminary results. Students
whose papers are selected will get a chance to present their work during
the workshop, and to interact with some of the most eminent researchers in
IR who will be attending the workshop.

The submission deadline and formatting instructions for posters and
doctoral consortium papers will be put up on the FIRE website soon.

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[arpit gupta]

Hello Sir,

I was curious when will the SMS based FAQ retrieval task be released ? 

[sayantan pandey]

Respected Sir,
I am facing a problem while decrypting the Bengali Corpus. It requires passphrase .I don't know the passphrase . It would be very kind if I get the passphrase so that I can start the experiment.

Sayantan Pandey
IIT Kharagpur

[Mandar Mitra]

Hello,

> I am facing a problem while decrypting the Bengali Corpus. It requires
> passphrase .I don't know the passphrase . It would be very kind if I get
> the passphrase so that I can start the experiment.

Three faculty members @ IITKgp -- Profs. Anupam Basu, Pabitra Mitra,
and Sudeshna Sarkar -- have registered to use FIRE data. If you are
working with any one of them, they should be able to give you the
key.

If this is not the case, please let us know.

Best,
Mandar.