Call for Workshop Proposals

ECIR 2025 workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in emerging areas in IR in a focused and interactive way.

Workshops can be either a half-day (3.5 hours plus breaks) or a full day (7 hours plus breaks). The organizers of approved workshops are expected to set up a webpage for the workshop, disseminate the call for papers and the call for participation, gather and review submissions, and prepare the final program. A camera-ready summary of the workshop, written by the organizers, will be included in the ECIR conference proceedings.

Workshops are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible and should lead to a concrete outcome, such as the publication of workshop proceedings. Organizers are also encouraged to write a summary article for the June edition of the ACM SIGIR Forum highlighting the main results of the workshop.

Workshops are on site, and at least one organizer is expected to attend the workshop.

Topics of Interest

ECIR 2025 encourages the submission of workshops on the theory, experimentation, and practice of retrieval, representation, management, and usage of textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information. Also, proposals aligned with other IR topics, identified in the general call for papers, are highly welcome.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

User aspects, including information interaction, contextualization, personalisation, simulation, characterization, and behaviors;
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 and interaction;
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 research, including new metrics and novel methods for the measurement and evaluation of retrieval systems, users, and/or applications.
Cross-disciplinary workshops, including IR and other domains such as NLP, data science, etc., are also welcome.

Submission Guidelines

Workshop proposals should contain the following information:

Title and abstract of the workshop;
Motivation and relevance to ECIR;
Workshop goals/objectives and overall vision, coupled with desired outcomes;
Format and Structure, in particular, duration of the workshop (full-day or half-day workshop); mention to the type of papers (e.g., full papers, demo papers, negative papers, etc); type of presentation (e.g., oral; poster, etc); and proceedings (e.g., CEUR; Special Issue, etc); planned activities, the tentative schedule of events etc.; resources needed to deliver the workshop (e.g., poster boards, etc);
Intended audience, including number of expected participants and how they will be selected/invited;
List of organizers with a brief bio highlighting the relevance of their expertise to the workshop topics
Names of potential programme committee members, invited speakers; etc
Indicate if the workshop is related to or follows on from another workshop; if so, please, identify which conference it was previously held at, the past attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed;
Any other relevant information to support your proposal.

Workshop proposals should be prepared using Springer proceedings templates available on the Springer webpage, with a maximum length of 8 pages. All proposals must be in English and will be submitted electronically through the conference submission system. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ECIR 2025 workshop committee based on the quality of their proposal, covered topics, relationship to ECIR, and likelihood of attracting participants. The ECIR workshop co-chairs will make final decisions.

Springer webpage:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Submission page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2025

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:

Workshop Proposals Track Dates

Workshop proposals submission: September 13, 2024, 11:59pm (AoE)
Workshop proposals notification: October 18, 2024
Workshop day: April 10, 2025

Workshop Proposals Track Chairs