The SIGIR Symposium on IR in Practice (SIRIP), formally known as the SIGIR Industry Track, provides an opportunity for researchers, engineers, practitioners, analysts and consumers to meet and discuss the latest related IR technologies as deployed in companies, big and small, and to achieve knowledge transfer across the boundary between academia and industry. SIRIP 2019 will be held as part of ACM SIGIR 2019 which will take place July 21-25, 2019 in Paris, France.
We encourage paper and panel proposals for SIRIP on the following categories:
- Position papers or panel proposals on the current and future state of IR in practice (controversy welcomed). For example:
- Do home voice-enabled devices require new IR science or is it all the same? What are other successes and challenges in user experience and interfaces for search?
- Now that IR services are mainstream, what is the role of IR research both in academia and industry?
- Will Deep Learning be the answer to all IR problems? Are there IR specific issues that need to be addressed? Can IR contribute to some of the current hot ML issues such as explainability, fairness, causality.
- Should we merge IR back into NLP? Where is the frontier?
- Applications of IR in areas not well covered by the main conference. We would prefer contributions to IR for the legal domain, bioinformatics, genomics, gaming, politics, etc over web search, e-commerce search, and advertising.
- Startup presentations, creating a connection with academia to solve interesting problems.
The presentation format of the Symposium will be decided based on submissions and interest to the wider community, and is likely to be a mix of short and long presentations as well as panels.
Proposals should be at most 4 pages and follow the ACM format. Formatting guidelines are available at the ACM Website (use the ˮsigconf” proceedings template). Please include:
- title, abstract, main contributions, and relevancy to SIRIP 2019 themes
- a brief company portrait for startup presentations
- a short CV of the presenters
A condition of acceptance is that at least one author commits to attend SIRIP 2019 to present the work. The authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit a 2-pages camera ready paper.
Submission website
Authors should submit proposals via the submission website here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirip2019
Important dates
SIRIP proposal due | Sun, Mar 17, 2019 |
SIRIP notifications | Sun, Apr 28, 2019 updated |
SIRIP camera-ready deadline | TBD |
SIRIP chairs


All questions about submissions should be emailed to sirip2019@gmail.com (or the easychair address).