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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Apologies for cross posting *<br><br> First CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br><br> FIRE<br> (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation)<br>
Workshop<br> India International Center, New Delhi<br> <span><span>4-6 December 2013</span></span><br><br> <a href="http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire" target="_blank">http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire</a><br>
<a href="http://www.irsi.res.in/fire" target="_blank">http://www.irsi.res.in/fire</a> (mirror)<br><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">TASKS:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Information access in the legal domain</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Shared Task on Transliterated Search</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Morpheme Extraction Task (MET)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Cross-Language !ndian News Story Search (CL!NSS)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- FAQ retrieval using Noisy Queries</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Question Answering for the Spoken Web (QASW)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- NER - Named-Entity Recognition Indian Languages</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">INVITED SPEAKERS:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Doug Oard, University of Maryland, USA.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Jacques Savoy, Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research, USA.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Évora, Portugal.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- William Webber, University of Maryland, USA.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">REGISTRATION:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Registration for FIRE is now open. Please visit</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/registration.html" target="_blank">http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/registration.html</a><br><br>Participants from India INR<br>
Full-time registered students 2,000<br>Academia, non-profit R&D 5,000<br>Industry 10,000<br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">CLIA project staff and PIs 4,000</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Participants from abroad USD 200</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br>* Deadline for registration: <span><span>22nd November, 2013</span></span><br><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Space is limited. Please register early.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Please check the FIRE website from time to time for more updates.</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>
Regards,<div>Parth Mehta</div><div>DA-IICT</div>
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