FLIRT 2023: 1st Workshop on Federated Learning for Information Retrieval 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Taipei, Taiwan, July 27, 2023

TOPICS AND THEMES

The motivation of the FLIRT workshop is to provide an open forum for researchers and practitioners where they can exchange ideas, identify key challenges, and define the roadmap toward a successful application of federated learning (FL) in the broad IR area.

FLIRT would complement the list of relevant topics of the original SIGIR call for papers, encouraging submissions in the following areas:

• Searching and Ranking with FL
  • Federated query log analysis
  • Federated web search
  • Federated retrieval models and ranking
• Filtering and Recommendation with FL
  • Federated recommender systems
• Natural Language Processing for Search and Recommendation with FL
  • Federated document representation
  • Federated knowledge discovery
  • Federated question-answering systems
• Infrastructure Challenges for FL-based IR systems
  • Data compression
  • Data heterogeneity
  • Device heterogeneity
  • Hardware support for on-device FL-based IR
  • Energy efficiency
• Security and Privacy of FL-based IR systems
  • Confidentiality and integrity of FL-based IR systems
  • Adversarial attacks on FL-based IR systems
  • Defense mechanisms for robust FL-based IR systems
• Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Explainability (FATE) of FL-based IR systems
  • FATE for FL-based search, ranking, and recommendation
• Domain-specific IR Applications with FL
  • Local/mobile, social, multimedia search
  • Education, legal, health, finance, etc.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Originality: Submissions must be original (i.e., not submitted to or accepted to other venues); however, we welcome extensions or revisions of published papers. Also, we encourage submitting early-stage work or position papers.

Anonymity: Submissions are not required to be anonymous (single-blind).

Paper Formatting: Submissions of papers must be in English, in PDF format, and be at most 6 pages (including figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any content except references) in length, with unrestricted space for references, in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use "sigconf" proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word). ACM's CCS concepts and keywords are not required for review but may be required if accepted and published by the ACM.

For LaTeX, the following should be used:

documentclass[sigconf,natbib=true]{acmart}

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=flirt2023

Important Dates

Submission deadline: April 25, 2023^*

Submission deadline (extended): May 31, 2023^*

Author notification: June 23, 2023^*

Camera-ready deadline: TBA

Workshop day: July 27, 2023

CONTACTS

Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/flirt-sigir23

Email: flirtsigir23@gmail.com

Twitter: @flirtsigir

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flirtworkshop

*Anywhere on Earth (AoE)