*Call for Tracks* *FIRE 2025: 17th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation*

Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi 17th - 20th December Website: fire.irsi.org.in http://fire.irsi.org.in/

*Call for Tracks*

We invite proposals for offering evaluation tracks at FIRE 2025.

FIRE 2025 is the 17th edition of the annual meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (fire.irsi.org.in). Since its inception in 2008, FIRE had a strong focus on shared tasks similar to those offered at Evaluation forums like TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR. The shared tasks focus on solving specific problems in the area information access and, more importantly help in generating evaluation datasets for the research community.

It is not required for the tasks to focus on a specific language, and they can broadly cover any problem in the fields related (but not limited) to IR, NLP, multi-modal information access, and ML. However, the organizers especially encourage proposals for tracks related to South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages. In the past, FIRE has hosted tracks from Arabic, Persian, German, Russian, and Urdu languages besides several Indian languages. We aim to continue these efforts and include more language groups from these regions. For knowing more about tracks in past FIRE meetings, you can visit fire.irsi.org.in http://fire.irsi.org.in

Informal inquiries can also be sent to the track chairs.

Please include the following details in your proposal:

1. Track name 2. Track description 3. Use case/s 4. Target Audience and number of expected submissions 5. Data(*) (Fair Details) 6. Evaluation plan 7. Timeline: Please try to align with the FIRE conference dates as given below 8. Organizer/s Details 9. Prior experience in organizing shared task/workshop at relevant venues

*Tentative Timeline*

*23rd March, 2025* Track proposals due *10th April, 2025* Track acceptance notification *15th May, 2025* Open track websites and release of training data *15th June, 2025* Test data release *30th June, 2025* Run submission deadline *15th July, 2025* Track results declaration *30th August, 2025* Working notes due *30th September, 2025* Camera-ready copies of working notes and overview paper due *17th December, 2025* FIRE Conference

Please send these details in a pdf format to clia@isical.ac.in with a copy to fire2025@itbhu.ac.in , kripa.ghosh@gmail.com and mandl@uni-hildesheim.de

(*) We require that after FIRE, the data should be made publicly available through Information Retrieval Society of India. In case, data can not be distributed publicly (e.g., Twitter data), a unique identifier that can be used to recreate the original corpus can be provided (e.g., tweet ids in case of Twitter data). This disbursal will be governed by a copyright form, which the users have to sign before getting the data. A sample form is available at ( fire.irsi.org.in/fire/static/data http://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/static/data ).