FIRE (Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                                 FIRE
             (Forum for Information Retrieval
Evaluation)
                               Workshop
                            Kolkata, India
                        12-14th December 2008

                    http://www.isical.ac.in/~fire

The success of TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR has clearly
established the importance
of building reusable, large-scale standard test
collections in Information
Access research. The aim of FIRE is to encourage
research in Indian language
Information Access by creating a similar platform for
Indian languages that
provides the data and a common forum for comparing
models and techniques.


The Tasks:
==========
1) Ad-hoc monolingual document retrieval in six Indian
languages viz.
   Hindi, Bangla, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi.
2) Ad-hoc cross-lingual document retrieval
   a) from Hindi, Bangla, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu,
Punjabi to
      English and Hindi.
   b) from English to any of the six Indian languages
      (Hindi, Bangla, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu,
Punjabi).

The Time Line:
==============
Training data released                   May 31 2008
Test data released                       July 1 2008
Ad-Hoc monolingual run submission        September 15
2008
Ad-hoc cross-lingual run submission      September 15
2008
Relevance judgements released            December 1
2008
Workshop                                 December
12-14 2008


Task Co-ordinators: (mono- and cross-lingual)
===================
Hindi: Pushpak Bhattacharyya (pb-IRBnI7/bi/[email protected])
Bangla: Mandar Mitra ([email protected])
Marathi: Om Damani (damani-IRBnI7/bi/[email protected])
Tamil: L. Sobha ([email protected])
Telugu: Vasudev Verma (vv-mKB7MiNPmUif0DUV/[email protected])
Punjabi: Karunesh Arora ([email protected])

Overall co-ordinators:
Mandar Mitra, Prasenjit Majumder
Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
{mandar,prasenjit_t}@isical.ac.in
International Advisory Committee for FIRE:
    Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Labs, Spain
    Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei,
Taiwan
    Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
    Christian Fluhr, CEA, France
    Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg, Germany
    Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, USA
    Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics,
Tokyo, Japan
    Krishna Kummamuru, IBM Research Lab, India
    Mun Kew Leong, Institute for Infocomm Research,
Singapore
    Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University, USA
    Sung Hyon Myaeng, Information and Communications
University, South Korea
    Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
    Doug Oard, University of Maryland, USA
    Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK
    Lim Ee Peng, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
    Carol Peters, ISTI-CNR, Italy
    Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research, Cambridge,
UK
    Tetsuya Sakai, NewsWatch Inc., Japan
    Mark Sanderson, University Of Sheffield, UK
    Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel,
Switzerland
    Fabrizio Sebastiani, ISTI-CNR, Italy
    Amit Singhal, Google Fellow, USA
    Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and
Technology, USA
    Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards
and Technology, USA





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