Report on the 17th Meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE)
The Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) is developing language resources for information access mainly in languages of India. The FIRE workshop was held in Varanasi in December 2025. FIRE included a scientific program and 12 evaluation tracks. These tracks provide recent insights into the domain of natural language processing and information retrieval. Many tracks are related to cross-lingual information access and analysis of social media data. More and more tasks are directed towards visual content. Languages of India are in the focus and in this edition, the following languages were addressed within the evaluation tracks: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Bodo, Telugu, Tamil, Tulu, Kannada and Malayalam. Several tasks were offered for English. Date: 17–20 December 2025. Website: https://fire.irsi.org.in.
Authors
- Koyel Ghosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5347-4961)
- Sukomal Pal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8743-9830)
- Krishna P. Tewari
- Thomas Mandl
Institutions
- SRM Institute of Science and Technology (IN)
- University of Hildesheim (DE)
- Indian Institute of Technology BHU (IN)
- Banaras Hindu University (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACM SIGIR Forum
- Published
- 2025-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3799914.3799933
- Primary Topic
- Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00