SIGIR

Recently, the ACM created a policy on Artifact Review and Badging, which presents a framework to help SIGs recognize repeatability, replicability and reproducibility in published research. While the ACM policy established a vocabulary and definitions, ...

Recently, there has been a growing number of questions about the relationship between preprints and double-blind peer-review at the SIGIR conference. These questions come from authors who wish to post papers which are under review to preprint servers ...

The purpose of the Strategic Workshop in Information Retrieval in Lorne is to explore the long-range issues of the Information Retrieval field, to recognize challenges that are on - or even over - the horizon, to build consensus on some of the key ...

This paper reports the findings of the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 17442 on performance modeling and prediction in the domains of Information Retrieval, Natural language Processing and Recommender Systems. We present a framework for further research, ...

This is a report on the NTCIR-13 conference held in December 2017, in Tokyo, Japan. NTCIR is a series of parallel and collective evaluation efforts designed to enhance research on diverse information access technologies, including, but not limited to, ...

The 11th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2017) was held in Barcelona, Spain from the 4th to the 8th of September 2017 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. ESSIR consisted of a week of lectures and seminars delivered by top invited ...

The Workshop on Evaluation of Personalisation in Information Retrieval (WEPIR 2018) was held in conjunction with the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR 2018) in New Brunswick, USA. The purpose of WEPIR 2018 was to ...

The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR) workshop series has started at ECIR in 2014 and serves as the annual gathering of IR researchers who address various information-related tasks on scientific corpora and bibliometrics. We welcome ...

The news industry has undergone a revolution in the past decade, with substantial changes continuing to this day. News consumption habits are changing due to the increase in the volume of news and the variety of sources. Readers need new mechanisms to ...

The 2nd Workshop on Social Aspects in Personalization And Search was held on March 26, 2018 in conjuction with the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2018). The scientific program included paper presentations and a final discussion. ...

The 1st International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts (Text2Story 2018) was held in conjunction with the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2018, Grenoble on the 26 th March 2018. The workshop aimed to help foster the ...

We present in this manuscript a report on KidRec 2017 workshop, the first edition of the international workshop on Children & Recommender Systems, co-located with the 11th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) held in Como, Italy. While ...

This is a report on the eighth edition of the International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access (EVIA 2017), co-located with the 13th NTCIR Conference on the Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR13) held in Tokyo, Japan, on December ...

Verifiability is one of the core editing principles in Wikipedia, where editors are encouraged to provide citations for the added statements. Statements can be any arbitrary piece of text, ranging from a sentence up to a paragraph. However, in many ...

Past decade witnessed an explosive growth in the amount of unstructured data, especially in the public domain, mainly due to Web 2.0 and social media. This led to the creation of applications, called information extractors, that extract structured ...