March 13th, 2025 
Daniela Lopez de Luise The Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025) invites proposals for tracks and competitions, to be hosted by IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India from December 17-20, 2025.
As a premier venue for research in Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), FIRE provides a platform for exploring innovative methodologies, benchmarking datasets, and advancing fairness, explainability, and multilingual access in AI-driven systems.
We welcome proposals for track / competition on topics including but not limited to:
- Multilingual and Low-Resource NLP
- Bias, Fairness, and Explainability in AI/IR
- Hate Speech and Sarcasm Detection
- Recommender Systems and Personalization
- Generative AI in Healthcare, Law, and Finance
- AI-Generated Content Detection
- AI for Disaster Management and Software Engineering
- Code-Mixed IR
- Personalized IR
- Summarization in Indian languages
- Multimodal Tasks (text-to-speech/image/video conversion and vice-versa)
📩 Submit proposals (PDF) to clia@isical.ac.in, CC: fire2025@iitbhu.ac.in, kripa.ghosh@gmail.com, mandl@uni-hildesheim.de.
📅 Key Dates:
✔ March 23, 2025 – Proposal Submission Deadline
✔ April 10, 2025 – Acceptance Notification
✔ December 17-20, 2025 – FIRE 2025 Conference @ IIT (BHU), Varanasi
🔗 Details: https://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/2025/call_for_tracks
We look forward to your contributions and engaging interactions at FIRE 2025!
Thanks and regards,
Call-for-Tracks-FIRE-2025-IITBHU-Varanasi-India.pdf
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