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

Call For Paper

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

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.

Committee

Overall Track Coordinators

Thomas Mandl

Universitat Hildesheim, Germany

Kripabandhu Ghosh

IISER Kolkata, India

Srijoni Majumdar

University of Leeds, UK