FDIA

Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access

About

The 13th edition of our PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2025) will be held in conjunction with the 16th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2025, https://2025.essir.eu/home, 07-11 July 2025).

We cordially invite Masters and doctoral (PhD) students as well as early-stage researchers to participate in the Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA). This forum offers a valuable opportunity to present your emerging research and receive feedback from peers and established scholars in the field.

Accepted submissions will also be allowed to present their work as a poster at the following European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR).

The symposium focuses on "Future Directions" by welcoming submissions that explore early-stage research, including pilot studies and initial findings, conceptual frameworks, current challenges, and doctoral work in progress. We use the term "Information Access" to encompass the broader spectrum of information retrieval, storage, and management, including interaction and usage aspects. This reflects the evolving nature of information systems in practice.

By participating in the FDIA Symposium, you will gain experience presenting your research, receive constructive feedback, connect with fellow researchers, deepen your understanding of Information Retrieval concepts, and engage with thought-provoking presentations from experienced scholars.

We welcome submissions that present new research directions and emerging work in Information Access and Retrieval. Papers that stimulate discussion and offer fresh perspectives are encouraged. The symposium provides a supportive environment for researchers to share preliminary findings, theoretical models, and innovative approaches that contribute to advancing the field.

FDIA 2025 is the next chapter in a long list of previous events. Previous symposiums were held in Amsterdam, Netherlands (with ESSIR 2024), Vienna, Austria (with ESSIR 2023), Lisbon, Portugal (with ESSIR 2022), Milan, Italy in 2019 (with ESSIR 2019), Tianjin, China in 2018 (with ICTIR 2018), Barcelona, Spain in 2017 (with ESSIR 2017); Thessaloniki, Greece in 2015 (with ESSIR 2015); Granada, Spain in 2013 (with ESSIR 2013); Koblenz, Germany in 2011 (with ESSIR 2011), Padova, Italy in 2009 (with ESSIR 2009); London, England in 2008, and Glasgow, Scotland in 2007 (with ESSIR 2007). They have provided an entertaining and exciting forum for early-stage researchers for sharing new research ideas.

Topics

Areas of research include, but are not limited to:

Information Retrieval Theory
Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, User Modelling, Interactive IR
Collaborative Information Seeking and Searching
IR for Good
IR Evaluation
Learning to Rank
Retrieval-augmented Generation
Neural and Generative IR
Multimedia and Multimodal IR
Recommender Systems
Web IR
Clustering and Categorization
Enterprise Search
Conversational Agents, knowledge graphs
IR Applications (e.g. Digital Humanities, News IR, Legal IR, IR and Bibliometrics, Academic Search and Recommendation, etc.)
NeuraSearch (use of fMRI, EEG, fNTIR, Eye Tracking, etc. in IR)

Submission

Papers should be 2 pages in length excluding references for presentation and poster (e.g., an outline of the PhD or Master’s project, a discussion of topics and ideas). Submissions should be converted to PDF and submitted via Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fdia2025. We plan to publish the proceedings at CEUR-WS.org. Please use the one-column CEUR style (CEURART.zip).

Important Dates

June 16th, 2025: Submission Deadline
June 30th, 2025: Notification Deadline
July 3rd, 2025: Camera Ready Deadline

Deadline Extension

June 27th, 2025: Submission Deadline
July 4th, 2025: Notification Deadline
July 8th, 2025: Camera Read Deadline
July 9th, 2025: FDIA in Wolverhampton (During ESSIR 07-11th of July, 2025)

Contact

Please email fdia2025@easychair.org.

Organisers

FDIA is organized by the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group.

PC Chairs

Yashar Moshfeghi, University of Strathclyde, UK

Anirban Chakraborty, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Niall McGuire, University of Strathclyde, UK

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