Name: FIRE 2026: Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation - Track Proposals
Start: 2026-12-17
End: 2026-12-20
Location: Kolkata, India

About us

FIRE 2026 is the 18th edition of the annual meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation. Since its inception in 2008, FIRE has focused on shared tasks similar to those offered at forums like TREC, CLEF, and NTCIR. The focus is on solving specific problems in information access and generating high-quality evaluation datasets for the research community. The tracks emphasize selecting tasks that introduce new paradigms or generate substantial benchmark data to support future research, specifically encouraging proposals related to South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages.

Important Dates

Wed, Apr 15, 2026

Track proposals due

Fri, Apr 24, 2026

Track acceptance notification

Fri, May 15, 2026

Open track websites and release of training data

Mon, Jun 15, 2026

Test data release

Tue, Jun 30, 2026

Run submission deadline

Wed, Jul 15, 2026

Track results declaration

Sun, Aug 30, 2026

Working notes due

Wed, Sep 30, 2026

Camera-ready copies of working notes and overview paper due

Thu, Dec 17, 2026

FIRE 2026 Conference Start

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Natural Language Processing (Nlp)

Information Retrieval (IR)

Multi-modal information access

Machine Learning (ML)

Evaluation and Benchmarking

South Asian languages

African languages

Middle Eastern languages

Call for Papers Description

We invite proposals for the Evaluation and Benchmarking Track at FIRE 2026. Proposals should focus on solving specific problems in information access and generating high-quality evaluation datasets. Each proposal must include: Track name, description, use cases, target audience, data details, evaluation plan, timeline, and organizer details.