CALL FOR
PAPERS
The 32nd
Annual ACM SIGIR Conference July 19-23 2009, Boston, USA
SIGIR 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 original papers, posters, and
proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems.
SIGIR 2009
welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR theory and
foundation,
techniques, and applications. Relevant topics include, but are not
limited to:
*IR Theory
and Models (e.g., all kinds of formal IR models including language
models and
fusion of results, user/task-based IR theory)
* IR
Platforms and Scalability (e.g., IR architecture including
distributed/P2P,
efficiency, scalability, indexing, compression)
* IR
Evaluation (e.g., test collections, evaluation methods and metrics,
experimental design, data collection and analysis)
* Document
Representation and Content Analysis (e.g., text representation,
document
structure/discourse analysis, linguistic analysis-based representation,
non-topical representation)
* Query
Language and Query Analysis (e.g., structured queries, query
representation,
query intent analysis)
* User
Modeling and Interactive IR (e.g., user models, user studies, user
interface
and visualization, all kinds of feedback techniques, query log
analysis,
personalized search)
* Machine
Learning for IR (e.g., learning to rank, probabilistic topic models,
all kinds
of learning techniques applied to IR)
* Information
Extraction and Summarization (e.g., entity/relation extraction,
sentiment
analysis, summarization, discovery of knowledge/patterns from text)
* Categorization,
Clustering, and Filtering (e.g., text categorization, clustering,
content-based
filtering, collaborative filtering)
* Multimedia
IR (e.g., image IR, video IR, speech/audio IR, music IR, analysis of
multimedia
content)
* Question
Answering and Cross-Language IR (e.g., question answering, non-English
IR,
cross-language IR, machine translation for IR)
* Web IR
(e.g., link analysis, query log analysis, social tagging, social
networks, ad
targeting, blog/forum IR)
* Digital
Libraries and Other IR Applications (e.g., digital libraries,
enterprise/intranet search, distributed IR, genomics IR, mobile IR, any
domain-specific IR application)
* IR and
Database Search (e.g., XML retrieval, structured queries, ranking in
databases)
IMPORTANT
DATES:
Jan 19,
2009 Abstracts for full research papers due
Jan 26,
2009 Full research paper submissions due
Feb 2, 2009
Workshop proposals due
Feb 23,
2009 Posters, demonstration, and tutorial proposals due
Mar 2, 2009
Doctoral consortium proposals due
Mar 9, 2009
Notification of workshop acceptances
Apr 11,
2009 All other acceptance notification
Information
on how to submit will be available by mid-December, 2008 at
http://www.sigir2009.org/
GENERAL
CO-CHAIRS:
James Allan
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
Javed Aslam
(Northeastern University, USA)
TECHNICAL
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Mark Sanderson
(University of Sheffield, UK)
ChengXiang
Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Justin
Zobel (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Senior
Program Committee (Area Chairs):
Eugene
Agichtein, Emory University, USA
Nick
Belkin, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Jamie
Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Soumen
Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Hsin-Hsi
Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Tat-Seng
Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Charlie
Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
Fabio
Crestani, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Bruce
Croft, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
Maarten de
Rijke, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Susan
Dumais, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
Ed Fox,
Virginia Tech, USA
Norbert
Fuhr, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Djoerd
Hiemstra, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands
Rong Jin,
Michigan State University, USA
Gareth
Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Rosie
Jones, Yahoo! Research, USA
Tie-Yan
Liu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Natasa
Milic-Frayling, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Alistair
Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Isabelle
Moulinier, Thomson Reuters, USA
Ian
Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK
Tetsuya
Sakai, NewsWatch, Japan
Jacques
Savoy, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Hinrich
Schütze, University of Stuttgart Germany
Fabrizio
Sebastiani, CNR, Italy
Luo Si,
Purdue University, USA
Nicola
Stokes, University College Dublin, Ireland
Hwee Tou
Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ellen
Voorhees, NIST, USA
Manmatha R,
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
For other
details, please see the conference web site.
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