ILSUM 2022 Working notes guidelines

[Parth Mehta]

Dear Participants,

We have received several inquiries about the submission format and other details for ILSUM 2022 Working notes. Please find attached the details below:

Deadlines:

Working note submission: 3rd October  2022

Reviews due: 23rd October 2022

Camera Ready Due: 30th October 2022

The working notes will be published with CEUR as has been the trend for last several years. We need the following from each team:

a) Working notes
b) Copyright agreement

1. Formatting Requirements

Each article should follow single column CEUR format. The templates can be found in the attachment. For overleaf users, the template can also be found here: https://www.overleaf.com/read/xrcstxnnzmnc

While do not have any limit on lengths of the working notes, CEUR mandates classifying the papers as Long (>10 pages), short (5-9 pages) and extended abstract (< 5 pages). There will not be any distinction between these categories of papers as long as inclusion in CEUR proceedings or indexing (by dblp, scopus, etc) is concerned.

- Copyright information within the footer of the first page should be "Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, December 9-13, 2022, India" and should not be changed to include track names or any other details/modifications.

- Use emphasizing capitalized style in the title of each paper.  Some hints on correctly emphasizing titles in English are available at MusicBrainz.

2. Copyright Agreement

Each group also has to submit a copyright agreement form. This year there are two different forms (both attached below):

a. copyright-ntp This agreement is to be filled by teams who have not used any third-party data/resource for their working notes. This will be the case for most of the teams

b. copyright-tp In case a group has used some third party material, they have to submit this form, which states that they have obtained the necessary permissions for use of such material.

The partially filled copyright agreements are attached to this email. CEUR mandated physical signing of the forms after taking a printout. CEUR does not allow (i) pasting image of a sign or (ii) signing using a digital pen. A partially/incorrectly filled or digitally signed copyright form is the most common error that authors usually make, and special attention should be paid to it. Kindly ensure Date, place, title and author names are not missing from the copyright agreement forms.

For more details please read: http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#AUTHORAGREEMENT

3. Common Issues

Following are some common errors that the authors must try to avoid:

-  Inclusion of names of teams and tracks in titles of working notes is highly discouraged.
For instance titles like "Avengers@AILA: Legal document retrieval" should rather be written as "Legal Document Retrieval"
-  Author names should not have any prefixes like Dr., Prof., etc
- Copyright information within the footer of the first page should be "Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, December 9-13, 2022, India" and should not be changed to include track names or any other details/modifications.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fire22

Please make sure you submit under the ILSUM 2022 Track and not under the main conference track.

In case of any queries feel free to reach out to us.

Looking forward to your support for a successful FIRE 2022.

Regards,
Parth Mehta