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Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
FIRE 2024: 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation
12th - 15th December 2024
DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India
Submission Deadline: 20th September 2024
Submission Link : https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE202
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The 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE)
2024 will be held at DA-IICT, India. It will be an in-person conference.
FIRE brings in the Doctoral Consortium (DC) to provide a unique opportunity
for doctoral students to share their work with peers as well as with senior
researchers and also further shape their research and develop new ones
under an extended mentorship program under the guidance of distinguished
researchers from both academia and industry.
The goals of the symposium are to:
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provide the participants with an independent and constructive assessment
of their current research and possible future research scopes;
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develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative
research;
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provide a platform for the doctoral participants to share and discuss
their ideas with distinguished researchers from their domain; and support
the participants further with an individual mentorship session with a
distinguished researcher.
Who should participate?
Students should consider participating in the Doctoral Consortium if they
are at least twelve months away from completing their dissertation at the
time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or thesis
topic.
In the area of research which largely covers AI / ML, and information
science-related, we do not have any fixed set of research areas for the DC.
However, it would be desirable to have information retrieval as a paradigm
in your research that can be in any domain like software engineering,
machine translation and image processing, etc.
Submission
Submissions can be based on early ideas or results (communicated elsewhere)
for further feedback, or well-rounded study, results, and analysis, on
approach to convert PhD work into a product, and the like.
The paper should be 4 pages long (including references) and may contain the
following aspects:
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the problem to be solved in the research; a justification of why the
problem is important; a summary of the previous research and related work
has not yet solved that problem,
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the expected contributions of the research,
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how the student aims to evaluate and analyze the results; acceptable
evidence of the results to the community,
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an outline and characterization of the results achieved so far, and
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the planned timeline for completion.
Students, whose submissions are accepted, will be invited to present a
poster at the consortium. They will also need to give a short talk at the
consortium.
Paper submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE202
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Format
The submitted papers must follow follow LNCS (Springer conference) template
available on https://www.overleaf.com/project/66c745b6dd0f2aa8880bff51. The
only accepted format of submissions is PDF. Papers which do not conform to
the requirements may get rejected without review. Please note that it is
the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the PDF submission has
been uploaded successfully (we suggest that you try downloading your paper
again yourself, to check). Authors are invited to submit in any of the
following tracks:
Paper Length: 4 page single column
The author names and affiliations of the PhD Student or supervisors should
be included in the paper during submission. The first author of the paper
should be the PhD Student.
Review Process
Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Doctoral Symposium
Committee. Participants will be selected on the basis of their anticipated
contribution to the Doctoral Consortium goals as well as the potential
benefit to the participants. Among the criteria that will be considered in
reviewing submissions are:
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the potential quality of the anticipated contributions
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the stage of the research;
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the diversity of backgrounds, research topics, and approaches.
An additional review would be done to assess if the participants are
eligible for the PhD clinic, where potential research work can be reviewed
and discussed individually by a distinguished researcher.
Consortium and PhD Clinic
Authors of submissions selected for participation will have the opportunity
to present their work during the Doctoral Consortium and to have a
camera-ready version of their papers published in a companion volume to the
FIRE 2024 Conference Proceedings.
The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is
impossible due to travel limitations (related to, e.g., health, visa, or
COVID-19 prevention).
Selected participants will be also be eligible for the PhD clinic wherein
they will be assigned to a distinguished researcher who will conduct an
individual mentoring session with the participants. This session can be
constructively used by the participants to discuss their ideas, get more
insights and feedback and also directions for future work.
Important dates
25th July 2024
Paper submission link available
30th October 2024
Paper acceptance notification
10th November 2024
Camera ready copy submission deadline
12th-15th December 2024
In-person conference
Note: All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE Time Zone (Anywhere on
Earth).
Presentation Requirements
If accepted, at least one author will have to register for the conference
and present in person.
Consortium Co-ordinators
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Soumen Paul
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Srijoni Majumdar
For queries related to the conference please email us at [ clia(a)isical.ac.in
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