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ACM SIGIR addresses issues ranging from theory to user demands in the application of computers to the acquisition, organization, storage, retrieval, and distribution of information.
SIGIR News
- Get ready for SIGIR 2010 in Geneva!
- ACM SIGIR honors Susan Dumais
For her innovative contributions to information indexing and retrieval systems that have widely impacted the quality of search from the desktop to the Web, the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) has recognized Susan T. Dumais of Microsoft Research with the 2009 Gerard Salton Award. Her research and development of novel interfaces and algorithms have greatly improved document indexing and search techniques, helping to build an important bridge between human computer interaction and information retrieval. Dumais received the award on July 20, at the ACM SIGIR Conference in Boston, MA, where she gave the opening keynote address. Read more in the ACM Press release. - Jaime Arguello, Fernando Diaz, Jamie Callan, and Jean-Francois Crespo received the best paper award at SIGIR for their paper "Sources of evidence for vertical selection". They address the problem of vertical selection, predicting relevant verticals for queries issued to the search engine's main web search page making use of the query string, logs of queries previously issued directly to the vertical, and corpora representative of vertical content. As Jaime Arguello is a student, there is no separate best student paper awarded this year.
- SIGIR 2012 will be in Portland, Oregon chaired by Bill Hersh. Five cities bid for SIGIR 2013, and made presentations. They are: Barcelona, Spain; Dublin, Ireland; Edinburgh, Scotland; Haifa, Israel; and Vienna, Austria. But first, get ready for SIGIR 2010 in Geneva and SIGIR 2011 in Bejing.
- SIGIR Forum, June 2009 is available.
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Upcoming SIGIR Sponsored Conferences
- CIKM 2009 (Hong Kong, China) - November 2-6, 2009
- WSDM 2010 (New York City, USA) - February 4-6, 2010
- JCDL 2010 (Brisbane, Australia) - June 21-25, 2010
- SIGIR 2010 (Geneva, Switzerland) - July 18-23, 2010
Upcoming Conferences held in Cooperation with SIGIR
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- AIRS 2009 (Sapporo, Japan) - October 21-23, 2009
- RecSys 2009 (New York City, USA) - October 22-25, 2009
- ECIR 2010 (Milton Keynes, UK) - March 28-31, 2010
- See also the upcoming events page, and ACM's online calendar.