------------------------------------------------------------------------ SIGIR 2007 News letter for January 2007 The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference 23-27 July 2007, Amsterdam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this edition: 1. Paper dead line approaching fast 2. Yahoo gold sponsor 3. Textkernel bronze sponsor 4. Keynote speaker: Edwin van Huis 5. Mentoring programme finished 6. Call for workshops and tutorials 7. Call for posters and demonstrations 8. Call for doctoral consortium 9. Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Paper dead line approaching fast Authors are invited to submit research papers representing original, previously unpublished work to SIGIR 2007. The exact time of the submission deadline is 12pm PST on January 28, 2007 (midnight Pacific Standard Time, which is 8:00 UTC on January 29). The deadline will not be extended. Submission guidelines: http://www.sigir2007.org/submissions.html Submission page: http://sigir2007.confmaster.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Yahoo gold sponsor Yahoo! has been confirmed as the first Gold sponsor of SIGIR 2007! YAHOO! http://www.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Textkernel bronze sponsor The new year starts great with a new Bronze sponsor: Textkernel has agreed to support the conference. Textkernel is a company based in Amsterdam that translates text mining and information extraction research into effective business solutions. See: http://www.textkernel.nl/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4. Keynote speaker: Edwin van Huis We are pleased to announce that Edwin van Huis will give a keynote speech at SIGIR 2007. Edwin J.F.B. van Huis (1958) is the Director General of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid) since 1996. Before that he was Managing Director of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and worked for the Ministry of Culture in the Netherlands. The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision was established in 1997 as the result of a merger between three large audiovisual archives and the Broadcast Museum. Substantial collections of radio and television programmes, documentaries, commercials, amateur films, photographs and music are all to be found at this institute. The (total) archival holdings include materials dating from the earliest days of cinema right up to current news broadcasts. The size of the archive is estimated at 700,000 hours worth of viewing and listening. The major collection currently held is that of the (Dutch) public broadcasters, the magnitude of which increases daily. Read more on http://www.sigir2007.org/news/20070124edwinvanhuis.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Mentoring programme finished Our mentoring chair, Mark Sanderson, received around 40 requests: about 25 % more than last year. Experience from past conferences shows that 1 or 2 mentored papers are accepted as full papers each year. A mentor is someone who helps with preparing the mentee's SIGIR submission through one-on-one advising, usually via e-mail. The mentor can also familiarize the mentee with the standards of SIGIR submissions. Mentors are volunteers familiar with successful submissions and experts in the field of information retrieval. The deadline for submitting a mentoring request was 15 November 2006. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Call for workshops and tutorials Proposals are solicited for one-day or half-day workshops to be held on July 27, 2007, the last day of the conference. The purpose of SIGIR workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. As such, they also offer a good opportunity for young researchers to present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community. The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organizers, but it is expected that they contain ample time for general discussion. Workshop proposals must be sent by email to the Workshops Chair, Josiane Mothe by February 25, 2007. Read more on: http://www.sigir2007.org/cfw.html Proposals are solicited for tutorials of either a half-day (3 hours plus breaks) or full day (6 hours plus breaks) on all topics of information retrieval and its applications. Especially encouraged are (1) cross-disciplinary tutorials that educate the IR community about recent technical advancements in related fields (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing, data mining); (2) tutorials about emerging application areas of information retrieval technologies (e.g., Web, bioinformatics). Tutorial proposals must be sent via email by February 25, 2007 to the Tutorial Chair, ChengXiang Zhai. Read more: http://www.sigir2007.org/cft.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. Call for posters and demonstrations Poster presentations offer researchers a unique opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. They further provide researchers with an opportunity to obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide range of persons during the poster session. Posters should focus on problems and methodology of the presented research. Extended abstracts describing the work will be reviewed and published in the conference proceedings. Please note however, that posters describing work at the proposal stage will not be accepted. Submissions need to be received by February 25, 2007. Read more on: http://www.sigir2007.org/cfposters.html Demonstrations present first-hand experience with research prototypes or operational systems. They provide opportunities to exchange ideas gained from implementing IR systems and to obtain feedback from expert users. Demonstration submissions are welcomed in any of the areas identified in the call for papers. One-page demonstration abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings. Demonstration proposals must be submitted by February 25, 2007. Read more on: http://www.sigir2007.org/cfd.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Call for doctoral consortium The ACM SIGIR Doctoral Consortium provides doctoral students with a unique opportunity to have substantive interaction with other researchers regarding their proposed dissertation research. The objectives of the Doctoral Consortium are: * To provide a forum where doctoral students can present and discuss their proposed research with experienced IR researchers the members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. * To give students an opportunity to establish a supportive community of other doctoral students at the same stage of their dissertation research as themselves. The Consortium will take place on the same day as the Tutorials, with the format being: student presentations with plenary discussions, lunch, individual meetings with experienced researchers, and dinner. Submissions must arrive on or before March 11, 2007. Read more on: http://www.sigir2007.org/cfdc.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Important Dates January 28, 2007: Full research papers due February 25, 2007: Poster, demonstration, tutorial, and workshop submissions March 11, 2007: Doctoral consortium submissions due April 11, 2007: Notification of acceptance for all submissions July 23-27, 2007: Conference in Amsterdam See also: http://www.sigir2007.org Syndication: http://www.sigir2007.org/news/feed.rss Mailinglist: Send SUBSCRIBE to sigir07@cs.utwente.nl (leave the list at any time sending "SIGNOFF SIGIR2007") Contact: info@sigir2007.org