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SIGIR News
- Get ready for SIGIR 2012 in Portland, Oregon, USA!
- The SIGIR project Saving the Old IR Literature has scanned and released a new batch of historic IR papers, including early papers on the SMART system and papers on the development of test collections. The papers are written by amongst others: Gerard Salton, Karen Sparck Jones, William Cooper, Keith van Rijsbergen, Stepen Robertson, Martin Kay, Michael Lesk, and Nicolas Belkin.
- ACM SIGIR has a limited number of $1K scholarships to award to worthy students to attend the ACM Turing Centenary Celebration, 15-16 June 2012, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA. $500 of the award must be used to cover two nights stay at the Palace Hotel. The remaining balance will go toward travel expenses. Please contact Ian Soboroff.
- SIGIR Forum, December 2011 is available.
- This year's best paper award was presented to Mikhail Ageev (Moscow State University), and Qi Guo, Dmitry Lagun, and Eugene Agichtein (Emory University). The best student paper award was awarded to Shuang-Hong Yang (Georgia Institute of Technology), Bo Long and Alexander J. Smola (Yahoo! Labs), Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Institute of Technology), and Zhaohui Zheng (Yahoo! Labs Beijing).
- more SIGIR news...
SIGIR Sponsored Conferences
- JCDL 2012 (Washington DC, USA) - June 10-14, 2012
- SIGIR 2012 (Portland, Oregon, USA) - August 12-16, 2012
- CIKM 2012 (Maui, Hawaii USA) - October 29-November 2, 2012
Conferences held in Cooperation with SIGIR
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- ECIR 2012 (Barcelona, Spain) - April 1-5, 2012
- UMAP 2012 (Montreal, Canada) - July 16-20, 2012
- IIiX 2012 (Njmegen, the Netherlands) - August 21-24, 2012