Topics & Scopes

FQAS is one of the leading conferences focusing on the key issues in the information society of providing flexible, easy, and intuitive acces to information.By targeting this issue,the conference drawn on several reasearch areas, such as:

Topics and Areas of Research

Explore a comprehensive list of key areas:

  • Flexible Query Answering models and Systems
  • Question answering systems
  • Information Retrieval models and Systems
  • (Spatio-temporal) database models and systems
  • Knowledge-based models and systems
  • Decision support models and systems
  • Retrieval Augmented Generation
  • Demographic debiasing for fair answers
  • Opinion mining and sentiment analysis
  • Trustworthiness and credibility of answers
  • Facts checking
  • (FATE) Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Explainability of answers
  • Knowledge discovery
  • Knowledge Graphs generation and querying
  • Feature importance (the importance of questioned object features)
  • Ethics and privacy in information access
  • Anonymous query answering
  • Privacy secure user profiling for needs interpretation
  • Green, scalable and efficient query answering
  • Implicit query answering
  • Synthetic data generation (for development and initial training of intelligent QA systems)
  • Multilinguality and cross-language retrieval
  • Intelligent multi and cross-modal dialogues and question answering (e.g., text to images, image to text, text to speech, speech to image)
  • Connection finding
  • Situation assessment
  • Data and Answer summarization
  • Imprecise needs and query disambiguation
  • Contextualization and personalization of query answering
  • Query intent detection
  • Query answering in a distributed context
  • Query answering (geo-temporal) big data
  • Evaluation of query answering systems
Application Areas

These areas include, but are not limited to:

  • Information search / query-answering (in databases, internet/web, social media, …)
  • Fine-tuning foundation (Multimodal) Large Language Models for specific applications
  • Business intelligence
  • Security intelligence
  • Research/investigation support
  • Community question answering (in forums, social networks)
  • Code search and generation
  • Anomaly detection
  • Healthcare (e.g., Biomedical Question Answering)
  • Cooperative dialogue systems and chatbots
  • Recommender system applications (e.g., for music, films, books, literature, tourist objects, …)
  • Environmental and Earth Observation applications (e.g., geo-data and remote sensing data products for preparedness, emergency, and recovery management)