Bibliographie
ACM SIGIR 2019
The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development
in Information Retrieval
July 21-25, 2019. Paris, France
Call for Short Papers
The annual SIGIR conference is the major international forum for the
presentation of new research results, and the demonstration of new
systems and techniques, in the broad field of information retrieval
(IR). The 42nd ACM SIGIR conference, to be held in Paris, welcomes
contributions related to any aspect of information retrieval and access,
including theories and foundations, algorithms and applications, and
evaluation and analysis.
The conference and short paper program chairs invite those working in
areas related to IR to submit original (four-page) short papers, which
will be presented as posters at the conference. Short papers present
original, previously unpublished work that make a novel research
contribution to the field. They provide an opportunity to describe
significant work in progress or research that is best communicated in an
interactive or graphical format. Compared to full papers, their
contribution may be narrower in scope, be applied to a narrower set of
application domains, or have weaker empirical support than that expected
for a full paper. Submissions likely to generate discussions in new and
emerging areas are especially encouraged. We welcome submissions in all
areas related to any aspect of IR, as identified in the call for full
papers on the conference website
(http://sigir.org/sigir2019/submit.html) and repeated in the list below.
Submissions will be peer reviewed, and accepted submissions will be
published in the conference proceedings. At least one author for each
accepted submission is required to register for the conference by the
early registration deadline. Furthermore, an author must be present at
the conference to present the work as a poster during the poster
session, where researchers can obtain direct feedback about their work
from a wide audience. Accepted submissions where authors fail to
register by the early deadline or cannot attend to present are subject
to being withdrawn from the conference proceedings at the discretion of
the chairs. A Best Short Paper Award will be awarded ; nominations will
be decided based on reviewer assessments on the submitted version with
the Awards committee making the final decision among the nominees based
on review of the camera-ready version.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original works by the authors, previously
unpublished, and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or
conference. Submissions of short papers must be in English, in PDF
format, and should not exceed four (4) pages in the current ACM
two-column conference format (including references and
figures). Suitable LaTeX and Word templates are available from the ACM
Website (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). Short
papers must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted
for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review
elsewhere. Submissions should not contain any author identification and
should be submitted electronically via the conference submission system
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2018). The short-paper
review process is double-blind. Authors are required to take all
reasonable steps to preserve the anonymity of their submission. While
authors can upload to institutional or other preprint repositories such
as arXiv.org before reviewing is complete, we generally discourage this
since it places anonymity at risk (which could result in a negative
outcome of the reviewing process). Submissions which violate the
pre-print policy, anonymity, length, or formatting requirements or are
plagiarized are subject to desk-rejection by the chairs. Authors should
carefully go through ACM’s authorship policy
(https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/authorship) before submitting
a paper. Authors should note that changes to the author list after the
submission deadline are not allowed without permission from the PC
Chairs. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to
register for, attend, and present the work at the conference in order
for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital
Library.
All short papers are to be submitted via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2019 to a track named
“Short Paper”.
List of Topics
Upon submission, authors should select one or two relevant topics among
the seven topics indicated below that best represent the area of their
submission. Search and Ranking. Research on core IR algorithmic topics,
including IR at scale, covering topics such as :
* Queries and query analysis
* Web search, including link analysis, sponsored search, search
advertising, adversarial search and spam, and vertical search
* Retrieval models and ranking, including diversity and aggregated
search
* Efficiency and scalability
* Theoretical models and foundations of information retrieval and access
Future Directions. Research with theoretical or empirical contributions
on new technical or social aspects of IR, especially in more speculative
directions or with emerging technologies, covering topics such as :
* Novel approaches to IR
* Ethics, economics, and politics
* Applications of search to social good
* IR with new devices, including wearable computing, neuroinformatics,
sensors, Internet-of-Things, vehicles
Domain-Specific Applications. Research focusing on domain-specific IR
challenges, covering topics such as :
* Local and mobile search
* Social search
* Search in structured data including email search and entity search
* Multimedia search
* Education
* Legal
* Health, including genomics and bioinformatics
* Other domains such as digital libraries, enterprise, news search, app
search, archival search
Content Analysis, Recommendation and Classification. Research focusing
on recommender systems, rich content representations and content
analysis, covering topics such as :
* Filtering and recommender systems
* Document representation
* Content analysis and information extraction, including summarization,
text representation, readability, sentiment analysis, and opinion
mining
* Cross- and multilingual search
* Clustering, classification, and topic models
Artificial Intelligence, Semantics, and Dialog. Research bridging AI and
IR, especially toward deep semantics and dialog with intelligent agents,
covering topics such as :
* Question answering
* Conversational systems and retrieval, including spoken language
interfaces, dialog management systems, and intelligent chat systems
* Semantics and knowledge graphs
* Deep learning for IR, embeddings, and agents
Human Factors and Interfaces. Research into user-centric aspects of IR,
including user interfaces, behavior modeling, privacy, and interactive
systems, covering topics such as :
* Mining and modeling search activity, including user and task models,
click models, log analysis, behavioral analysis, and attention
modeling
* Interactive and personalized search
* Collaborative search, social tagging and crowdsourcing
* Information privacy and security
Evaluation. Research that focuses on the measurement and evaluation of
IR systems, covering topics such as :
* User-centered evaluation methods, including measures of user
experience and performance, user engagement and search task design
* Test collections and evaluation metrics, including the development of
new test collections
* Eye-tracking and physiological approaches, such as fMRI
* Evaluation of novel information access tasks and systems such as
multi-turn information access
* Statistical methods and reproducibility issues in information
retrieval evaluation
Important Dates (Timezone : Anywhere on Earth)
* February 12, 2019 : SIGIR Short paper abstracts due
* February 19, 2019 : SIGIR Short papers due
* April 14, 2019 : SIGIR Short Paper Notifications
* July 21 – July 25, 2019 : SIGIR Conference & Workshops
Committees
Short paper track chairs
* Zhicheng Dou, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
* Mounia Lalmas, Spotify, London, United Kingdom
* Marc Najork, Google LLC, Mountain View, California
Program chairs
* Yoelle Maarek, Amazon, Haifa, Israel
* Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
* Falk Scholer, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
General chairs
* Max Chevalier, CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
* Eric Gaussier, CNRS & Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
* Benjamin Piwowarski, CNRS, LIP6, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Venue
The conference will be held in Paris, France, Sunday July 21 – Thursday
July 25, 2019.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
sigir2019-short@poleia.lip6.fr