ACM SIGIR Fact Sheet
Mission Statement
SIGIR focuses on all aspects of information storage, retrieval and dissemination, including research strategies, output schemes and system evaluations.
Awards
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Best Paper Award
Awarded at the SIGIR Conference - $1000 (divided evenly among the authors). -
Best Student Paper Award
Awarded at the SIGIR Conference when the Best Paper winner is not a student- $1000 (divided evenly among the authors). -
Salton Award
Awarded triennially at the SIGIR Conference. (Formerly SIGIR Award). -
Vannevar Bush Award
Awarded at the JCDL conference. Co-sponsored with SIGWEB.
Officers and Volunteers
- Elizabeth D. Liddy SIG Chair
- Mounia Lalmas SIG Vice Chair
- David D. Lewis SIG Secretary
- Alistair Moffat SIG Treasurer
- Jamie Callan SIG Past Chair
- Tetsuya Sakai SIG Regional Representative to the Executive Committee (Asia/Pacific)
- Alistair Moffat SIG Awards Chair
- Diane Kelly SIG Newsletter Editor, SIGIR Forum
- Ian Ruthven SIG Newsletter Editor, SIGIR Forum
- Djoerd Hiemstra SIG Information Director
- Mark Smucker SIG-IRList editor
- Fran Spanola Program Director, ACM
Annual Conferences
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Title: International ACM/SIGIR Conference on Research & Development
Acronym: ACM/SIGIR Aprox Dates: July/August. Frequency: 12 months -
Title: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
Acronym: JCDL Aprox Dates: June. Frequency: 12 months -
Title: Conference on
Information & Knowledge Management
Acronym: CIKM Aprox Dates: November. Frequency: 12 months -
Title: Conference on
Web Search and Data Mining
Acronym: WSDM Aprox Dates: February. Frequency: 12 months
Newsletter
Name: SIGIR Forum Frequency: Three times per yearTwo newsletter issues (June, December).
The special issue (the SIGIR conference proceedings, mailed to all members after the SIGIR conference).