*DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 14*

Fancy a trip to Amsterdam? The 12th edition of our PhD Symposium on Future 
Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2024, https://2024.essir.eu/fdia-2024), 
organised by the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group, will be held in 
conjunction with the 15th European Summer School on Information Retrieval 
(ESSIR 2024, https://2024.essir.eu/, 1-5 July 2024). 

We cordially invite Masters and doctoral (PhD) students as well as early-stage 
researchers to submit a paper on their research topic to the symposium. You’ll 
learn a lot about Information Retrieval while at the school and get great 
feedback on your topic, meet lots of other students, and hear inspiring talks.

The FDIA Symposium provides an excellent opportunity for students to give 
pointers to their work and obtain experience in presenting and communicating 
their research. 

FDIA 2024 is the next chapter in a long list of previous events. Previous 
symposiums were held in 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.

Why future directions, because we encourage submissions that focus on early 
research such as pilot studies, presenting challenges and future opportunities, 
conceptual and theoretical work, and the contributions from doctoral work.

Why information access, because it captures the broader ideas of information 
retrieval, storage, and management to include interaction and usage.

We especially encourage submissions on formative research ideas which present a 
summary of their doctoral work, initial empirical findings/pilot studies, 
explore conceptual and/or theoretical models, and/or describe current 
challenges and opportunities. Submissions focusing on new directions and 
emerging work in Information Access/Retrieval which create discussion and 
provoke a reaction are strongly encouraged. 

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)

Papers should be 4-8 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=fdia2024. We plan to publish 
the proceedings at CEUR-WS.org. Please use the one-column CEUR style 
(CEURART.zip).

We strongly encourage students to submit as a solo author, but papers with 
several authors are welcome as well. A selection of papers will be invited to 
give a short oral and/or poster presentation.


IMPORTANT DATES

June 14, 2024: Submission deadline
July 20, 2024: Notification deadline
July 3, 2024: FDIA in Amsterdam (during ESSIR July 1-5, 2024)


CONTACT

Please email [email protected].

MORE INFO

https://2024.essir.eu/fdia-2024


ORGANISERS

PC Chairs

Haiming Liu, University of Southampton, UK
Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Yashar Moshfeghi, University of Strathclyde, UK

-- 
Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, FBCS, FHEA
Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science
ACM CIKM 2023 General Chair
Head of Data, AI, Interaction, Retrieval and Language Group http://dairel.org 
Deputy Head Digital Innovations and Solutions Centre (DISC)
University of Wolverhampton, UK
Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: [email protected]
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