Call for Full Papers
39th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2016)
http://sigir.org/sigir2016
Pisa, Italy – July 17-21, 2016
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The Annual ACM SIGIR Conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit high-impact original papers for review. The 39th ACM SIGIR Conference welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR theory and foundations, techniques, or applications. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
* Document Representation and Content Analysis (text representation, document structure, linguistic analysis, NLP for IR, cross- and multi-lingual IR, information extraction, sentiment analysis, clustering, classification, topic models, facets, text streams).
* Queries and Query Analysis (query intent, query suggestion and prediction, query representation and reformulation, query log analysis, conversational search and dialogue, spoken queries, summarization, question answering).
* Retrieval Models and Ranking (IR theory, language models, probabilistic retrieval models, learning to rank, combining searches, diversity and aggregated search).
* Search Engine Architectures and Scalability (indexing, compression, distributed IR, P2P IR, mobile IR, cloud IR).
* Users and Interactive IR (user studies, user and task models, interaction analysis, session analysis, exploratory search, personalized search, social and collaborative search, search interface, whole session support).
* Filtering and Recommending (content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, recommender systems).
* Evaluation (test collections, experimental design, effectiveness measures, session-based evaluation, simulation).
* Web IR and Social Media Search (link analysis, click models/behavioral modeling, social tagging, social network analysis, blog and microblog search, forum search, community-based QA, adversarial IR and spam, vertical and local search).
* IR and Structured Data (XML search, ranking in databases, desktop search, entity search).
* Multimedia IR (image search, video search, speech/audio search, music search).
* Search applied to the Internet of Things (billions of devices, sensors, and actuators are now connected to the Web, which will affect how people search and browse the Web).
* IR for social good, including applications for non-profit organizations, governments, and social enterprises.
* Other Applications (digital libraries, enterprise search, genomics IR, legal IR, patent search, text reuse, new retrieval problems).
Submissions of long papers must be in English, in PDF format, and should not exceed ten pages in SIGIR two-column format (including references and figures). Suitable LaTeX and Word templates for SIGIR are available from the ACM Website. Full papers must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere (including as a short-paper submission for SIGIR). Submissions should not contain any author identification and should be submitted electronically via the conference submission system.
General Chairs
Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Fabrizio Sebastiani (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Program Chairs
Javed Aslam (Northeastern University, US)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Justin Zobel (University of Melbourne, Australia)
email: sigir2016-pchairs [AT] isti.cnr.it
Important Dates
January 14, 2016 Abstracts for full research papers due
January 21, 2016 Full research papers due
March 31, 2016 Full papers notification