FDIA 2025: PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 

Key Benefits:
·       Present your research to the academic community at FDIA 2025 
(https://2025.essir.eu/fdia)
·       Receive valuable feedback from peers and established scholars
·       Connect with fellow researchers in Information Access and Retrieval
·       For the first time, accepted works can be presented at ECIR 2026 as an 
FDIA Track Poster!

Submission Format:
·       2-page abstract (excluding references)
·       Use one-column CEUR style format (CEURART.zip)
·       Submit as PDF via EasyChair: 
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fdia2025

Important Dates:
·       June 16, 2025: Submission deadline
·       June 30, 2025: Notification of acceptance
·       July 3, 2025: Camera-ready deadline
·       July 9, 2025: FDIA Symposium in Wolverhampton (during ESSIR 2025, July 
7-11)

Are you an early-career researcher seeking a supportive environment to present 
your work and gain constructive feedback? This year's FDIA in Wolverhampton 
provides an ideal stepping stone in your academic journey.

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 this forum, which offers a valuable opportunity 
to present your emerging research and receive feedback from peers and 
established scholars in the field.

For the first time, accepted submissions will also be given the opportunity to 
present their work as a poster at the following European Conference on 
Information Retrieval (ECIR)!

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.

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, reflecting the evolving nature of information systems in practice.

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 particularly encouraged. The symposium provides a 
supportive environment for researchers to share preliminary findings, 
theoretical models, and innovative approaches that contribute to advancing the 
field.

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 Categorisation
·       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 two 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).

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 16th, 2025: Submission Deadline
·       June 30th, 2025: Notification Deadline
·       July 3rd, 2025: Camera Ready Deadline
·       July 9th, 2025: FDIA in Wolverhampton (During ESSIR 07-11th of July, 
2025)

CONTACT: Please email [email protected].

MORE INFO: https://2025.essir.eu/fdia

PC Chairs

Yashar Moshfeghi, University of Strathclyde, UK
Anirban Chakraborty, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Niall McGuire, University of Strathclyde, UK



-- 
Prof. Dr. Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, Dipl.-Inform., FBCS, FHEA
Professor of Applied Data Science, Modul University Vienna, Austria
Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: [email protected]
Bluesky: @frommholz.org | Mastodon: @[email protected]

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