Call for Demonstration Papers

The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of Information Retrieval.

ECIR 2025 is seeking original, high-quality submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field Information Retrieval. ECIR 2025 wishes to highlight significant contributions addressing the main challenges of providing effective search and retrieval, but also the related and equally important issues of recommender systems and interaction, multimedia and multi-modal content management, user interaction, large-scale search and recommendation, machine learning, and corresponding societal and technical challenges.

Topics of Interest

ECIR 2025 encourages the submission of high-quality and original papers on demonstrations of theory, experimentation, and practice of information retrieval and interaction; this primarily includes textual information but could also include visual, audio, and multi-modal information. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• User aspects, including information interaction, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and behaviours;
• System and foundational aspects, including retrieval models and architectures, content analysis and classification, recommendation algorithms, query processing and ranking, efficiency and scalability;
• Machine learning, deep learning and neural models, natural language processing, and graph models applied to information retrieval, recommender systems, and interaction;
• Conversational search systems, focusing on natural language understanding and generation, dialogue management, multimodal interaction, and user engagement in search processes;
• Explainability methods, addressing the transparency, interpretability, and accountability of AI-driven systems, particularly for information retrieval, recommendation, and personalisation;
• Applications, such as web search, recommender systems, web and social media apps, professional and domain-specific search, novel interfaces to search tools, intelligent search, and conversational agents;
• Evaluation, including new metrics and novel methods for the measurement and evaluation of retrieval systems, users, and/or applications;
• Social and technical challenges, such as bias, ethics, fake news and hate speech, IR-focused trustworthy & explainable AI methodologies and techniques.

Demonstration Paper Track

The Demo Track provides the opportunity for researchers to present their research prototypes and operational systems which they wish to share with the community, obtain feedback from experts, and exchange knowledge on implementing and developing such systems.

• Submissions should clearly define their purpose, scope, and audience of the demo. 
• All submissions should provide a URL to a live online version of their demo or, alternatively, provide a URL to a video showcasing the main features of their demo.
• Demonstrations that make their source code freely available are especially encouraged. 
• Demo papers are up to 4 pages in length plus additional pages for references.  Appendices count toward the page limit.
• Demo papers will be refereed through single-blind peer review (demo submissions are not anonymous).

Submission Guidelines

Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word (to be found at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/orcid). 

All submissions must be written in English. All papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2025) 

In addition, the corresponding author of each accepted paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the paper has been submitted, changes relating to its authorship cannot be made.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. Accepted papers will have to be presented at the conference by one of the authors in person – and at least one author for each accepted contribution will be required to register and attend.

Dual Submission Policy

Papers submitted to ECIR 2025 should be substantially different from papers that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that are under review at other venues. Exceptions to this rule are:

• Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings.
• Submission is permitted for papers that have previously been made available only as a technical report (e.g., in institutional archives or preprint archives like arXiv).

Ethics and Professional Conduct

ECIR 2025 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organising committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely:

• The ACM’s Policy on Authorship,
• The ACM’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct,
• The ACM’s Conflict of Interest Policy,
• The ACM’s Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification,
• The ACM’s Policy Against Harassment.

Demonstration Paper Track Dates

• Demo paper submission: October 23, 2024, 11:59pm (AoE)
• Demo paper notification: December 16, 2024
• Main conference: April 06-10, 2025

Demonstration Paper Track Chairs

• Dawn Lawrie (HLTCOE, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Andrew Yates (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Contact: ecir25-demo at easychair.org