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Call For Papers

FIRE 2017: Ninth meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation
8th - 10th December, Bangalore
Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2017
Website: fire.irsi.res.in

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The 9th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2017 will be held in Bangalore, 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. We are also inviting proposals for tutorials relevant to Information Retrieval and related domains.

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

Submission Guidelines

Detailed submission guidelines are available at http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2017/submission

Important dates

- July 31, 2017 : Full papers, Short papers and tutorial proposals due
- September 15, 2017 : Full papers, Short paper and Tutorial acceptance notifications
- September 30, 2017 : Camera ready copies due
- October 20, 2017 : Early bird Registration deadline
- December 8-10, 2017 : Conference held in Bangalore, India

Overall co-ordinators

- Prasenjit Majumder (DA-IICT)
- Mandar Mitra (ISI Kolkata)

For queries related to conference email us at [ clia@isical.ac.in ]
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