<div dir="ltr">Apologies if you receive multiple copies<br><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div><div>                                                     <span>CALL</span> FOR <span>PARTICIPATION</span></div><font size="4"><b><br></b></font><div><font size="4"><b> </b></font><i><font size="4"><b>Sixth Workshop of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation<br>                                                (FIRE 2014)</b></font><br>                                           
                   Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore <br>                                                     
                            5^th-7^th December 2014<br><br>

                       <a href="http://www.isical.ac.in/%7Efire" 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 (mirror)</a></i></div><br><br><i><p>
          The importance of reusable, large-scale standard test
          collections in Information Access research has been widely
          recognized. The success of TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR has clearly
          established the importance of an evaluation workshop that
          facilitates research by providing the data and a common
          forum for comparing models and techniques. The Forum for
          Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) follows in the
          footsteps of TREC, CLEF and NTCIR with the following aims:
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        <ul><li>Encourage research in South Asian language Information
            Access technologies by providing reusable large-scale test
            collections for ILIR experiments.</li><span><li>Explore new Information Retrieval / Access tasks that
            arise as our information needs evolve, and new needs
            emerge.</li></span><li>Provide a common evaluation infrastructure for comparing
            the performance of different IR systems.</li><li>Investigate evaluation methods for Information Access
            techniques and methods for constructing a reusable
            large-scale data set for ILIR experiments.</li></ul></i><br><i><h2>Invited Speakers</h2>
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<ul><li>
  <a href="http://ir.shef.ac.uk/cloughie/" target="_blank">
  Paul Clough, The University of Sheffield, UK.
  </a>
  </li><li>
    <a href="http://www.computing.dcu.ie/%7Egjones/" target="_blank">
      Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland.
    </a>
  </li><li>
  <a href="http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Ekamps/" target="_blank">
  Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  </a>
  </li><li>
  <a href="http://www.henningmueller.info/" target="_blank">
  Henning Müller, University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Switzerland.
  </a>
  </li><li>
  <a href="http://www.qcri.com/our-people/bio?par=acc&name=KareemDarwish&pid=23" target="_blank">
  Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar.
  </a>
  </li><li>
<a href="http://ims.dei.unipd.it/websites/archive/ims2009/members/ferro/" target="_blank">
Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy.
</a>
</li></ul><p><br></p></i></i></div><div><i><h2>Tracks</h2>


<ul><li>
        <a href="http://users.dsic.upv.es/grupos/nle/soco/" target="_blank">Detection of <font size="3"><b>SO</b></font>urce <font size="3"><b>CO</b></font>de Re-use <font size="3"><b>(SOCO)</b></font></a>
 </li><li>
        <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/fire13_st_on_transliteratedsearch/FIRE14ST.aspx" target="_blank">Shared Task on Transliterated Search</a>
 </li><li>
        <a href="http://bit.ly/1n8c4bD" target="_blank">Document Similarity Amid Automatically Detected Terms</a>
 </li><li>
        <a href="http://www.isical.ac.in/%7Efire/MET2014/MET.html" target="_blank">Morpheme Extraction Task</a>
 </li><li>
        <a href="http://www.isical.ac.in/%7Efire/legal.html" target="_blank">Information Access in the Legal Domain</a></li><li><i>
        <a href="http://www.au-kbc.org/nlp/NER-FIRE2014/" target="_blank">NER - Named Entity Recognition Indian Langauges</a>
 </i></li><br><br></ul></i></div><h2>REGISTRATION DETAILS:</h2>
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<tbody><tr><td width="400"><b>Participants from India</b></td><td><b>INR</b></td></tr>
<tr><td><br></td><td><br></td><td><br></td></tr>
<tr><td>Full-time registered students</td><td>   2,000</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Early Bird Academia, non-profit R&D</b>              </td><td> <b>5,000</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Academia, non-profit R&D       </td><td>   6,000</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>Early Bird Industry</b>                               </td><td><b>     10,000</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>Industry                               </td><td>     15,000</td></tr>
<tr><td>CLIA project staff and PI </td><td> 4,000 </td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<b>Participants from abroad (Early Bird)             200 USD</b>.<br>
Participants from abroad                  <b>250 USD</b>.<br>
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* Deadline for early bird registration: 25^th November, 2014</p><div><div><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><span></span></div></div>-- <br><div>Regards,<div>Parth Mehta</div><div>DA-IICT</div></div>
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