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,