Call for Papers
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
NOTE: We plan to include accepted papers in CEUR-WS proceedings. Nevertheless, authors may ask to opt-out.