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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 2009 in Boston!- SIGIR presents the first results of a project to digitize the older literature in the information retrieval field. So far 14 of the old reports, such as the Cranfield reports and the SMART reports have been scanned. The PDF versions of these are available from the Digital Museum of Information Retrieval Research.
- SIGIR Forum, June 2009 is available.
- SIGIR 2008 in Singpore was a great success. Best paper awards were handed at the SIGIR banquet. The best SIGIR 2008 paper is written by Jeremy Pickens, Gene Golovchinsky, Chirag Shah, Pernilla Qvarfordt, Maribeth Back. The best SIGIR 2008 student paper is written by Yuting Liu, Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Ying Zhang, Zhiming Ma, Shuyuan He, and Hang Li
- The Digital Symposium Collection DVD-ROM is a SIGIR membership option for an additional $10 per year. Check your ACM membership renewal forms for details.
- To save the SIGIR conference pages for generations to come, we archived some of them at: SIGIR 2002, SIGIR 2003, SIGIR 2004, and SIGIR 2007.
Upcoming SIGIR Sponsored Conferences
- JCDL 2009 (Austin TX, USA) - June 15-19, 2009
- SIGIR 2009 (Boston, MA, USA) - July 19-23, 2009
- CIKM 2009 (Hong Kong, China) - November 2-6, 2009
Upcoming Conferences held in Cooperation with SIGIR
(SIGIR members eligible for lowest registration rates)
- INFOSCALE 2009 (Hong Kong, China) - June 10-12, 2009
- AIRS 2009 (Sapporo, Japan) - October 21-23, 2009
- ECIR 2010 (Milton Keynes, UK) - March 28-31, 2010
- See also the upcoming events page, and ACM's online calendar.