Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) aims:
- to encourage research in South Asian language Information Access technologies by providing reusable large-scale test collections for ILIR experiments
- to explore new Information Retrieval / Access tasks that arise as our information needs evolve, and new needs emerge
- to provide a common evaluation infrastructure for comparing the performance of different IR systems
- to investigate evaluation methods for Information Access techniques and methods for constructing a reusable large-scale data set for ILIR experiments.
I know there is a lot of topic map development in South Asia and this looks like a great place to meet current researchers and to interest others in topic maps.