This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the
Second and Third Workshops of the Forum for Information Retrieval
Evaluation, FIRE 2010 and 2011, on Multi-lingual Information Access in
South Asian Languages held in Gandhinagar, India, in February 2010 and
in Bombay, India, in December 2011. The volume brings together revised
and expanded versions of a total of 29 papers. The papers are organized
in topical sections on various aspects of multi-lingual information
access.