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Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2018)

Vamshi K G Reddy, Pratibha Rani, Vikram Pudi, Dipti M Sharma presented a paper on Decision Tree Ensemble for Parts-of-Speech Tagging of Resource-poor Languages at Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2018) at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT) Gandhinagar from 6 – 9 December.

The 10th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2018 was started in 2008 with the aim of building a South Asian counterpart for TREC, CLEF and NTCIR. FIRE has since evolved continuously to meet the new challenges in multilingual information access. It has expanded to include new domains like plagiarism detection, legal information access, mixed script information retrieval and spoken document retrieval to name a few. Continuing the trend started in 2015, the FIRE consisted of a peer-reviewed conference track along with evaluation tasks.