[Corpora-List] FIRE 2013 First call for participation

[Parth Mehta]

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                      First CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                                  FIRE
              (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation)
                                Workshop
                 India International Center, New Delhi
                           4-6 December 2013

                     http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire
                  http://www.irsi.res.in/fire (mirror)

TASKS:
- Information access in the legal domain
- Shared Task on Transliterated Search
- Morpheme Extraction Task (MET)
- Cross-Language !ndian News Story Search (CL!NSS)
- FAQ retrieval using Noisy Queries
- Question Answering for the Spoken Web (QASW)
- NER - Named-Entity Recognition Indian Languages

INVITED SPEAKERS:
- Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.
- Doug Oard, University of Maryland, USA.
- Giovanni Sartor, European University Institute, Italy.
- Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK.
- Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Jacques Savoy, Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland.
- Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research, USA.
- Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
- Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Évora, Portugal.
- Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain.
- William Webber, University of Maryland, USA.

REGISTRATION:
Registration for FIRE is now open. Please visit
http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire/registration.html

Participants from India          INR
Full-time registered students  2,000
Academia, non-profit R&D       5,000
Industry                      10,000
CLIA project staff and PIs     4,000

Participants from abroad     USD 200

* Deadline for registration: 22nd November, 2013

* Space is limited. Please register early.

* Please check the FIRE website from time to time for more updates.

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Regards,
Parth Mehta
DA-IICT
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