Call for Participation – SciHigh–2026 Shared Task at FIRE 2026 @ISI kolkata

[Tohida Rehman]

Dear Esteemed Professors, Researchers, and Students,

I hope this message finds you well.

I’m reaching out to share details about an upcoming shared task titled “Research Highlight Generation from Scientific Papers (SciHigh–2026)”, which will be organized as part of FIRE 2026 (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation) conference.

📍 Venue: ISI Kolkata, India
📅 Dates: 17th – 20th December 2026
🌐 FIRE Website: https://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/2026/home

🔗 SciHigh Shared Task Website: https://sites.google.com/jadavpuruniversity.in/scihigh2025/home

⭕ SciHigh–2026 brings together researchers working at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), scientific document understanding, summarization, text generation, and multilingual AI.

This year’s shared task includes three subtasks:

🔹 Research Highlight Generation – Generate concise and structured research highlights from scientific paper abstracts using MixSub-SciHigh.

🔹 Title Generation from Abstracts – Generate informative and meaningful scientific titles from abstracts using the SpringerSSAT dataset.

🔹 English → Bengali Title Translation – Translate scientific paper titles while preserving technical meaning and readability using SpringerSSAT-Tiny-Multilingual.

We welcome your participation and would be grateful if you could also circulate this among colleagues, peers, and students who may be interested.

Please feel free to reach out for any further details.

⭕ We look forward to your participation in SciHigh–2026.

Regards,

Dr. Tohida Rehman

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Assistant Professor

Department of Information Technology

Jadavpur University(Salt Lake Campus)

Former

Assistant Professor 

Department of Computer Science
Surendranath college(C.U)

24/2 M.G Road kolkata-700009