[CPM-SPIRE-L] ACM SIGIR 2016, Pisa, Italy - Call for Contributions

[Fabrizio Sebastiani]

Call for Contributions

39th ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR 2016)
http://sigir.org/sigir2016

Pisa, Italy — July 17-21, 2016

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The Annual ACM SIGIR Conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit high-impact contributions for review. The 39th ACM SIGIR Conference welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR theory and foundations, techniques, or applications.  Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

* Document Representation and Content Analysis (text representation, document structure, linguistic analysis, NLP for IR, cross- and multi-lingual IR, information extraction, sentiment analysis, clustering, classification, topic models, facets, text streams).
* Queries and Query Analysis (query intent, query suggestion and prediction, query representation and reformulation, query log analysis, conversational search and dialogue, spoken queries, summarization, question answering).
* Retrieval Models and Ranking (IR theory, language models, probabilistic retrieval models, learning to rank, combining searches, diversity and aggregated search).
* Search Engine Architectures and Scalability (indexing, compression, distributed IR, P2P IR, mobile IR, cloud IR).
* Users and Interactive IR (user studies, user and task models, interaction analysis, session analysis, exploratory search, personalized search, social and collaborative search, search interface, whole session support).
* Filtering and Recommending (content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, recommender systems).
* Evaluation (test collections, experimental design, effectiveness measures, session-based evaluation, simulation).
* Web IR and Social Media Search (link analysis, click models/behavioral modeling, social tagging, social network analysis, blog and microblog search, forum search, community-based QA, adversarial IR and spam, vertical and local search).
* IR and Structured Data (XML search, ranking in databases, desktop search, entity search).
* Multimedia IR (image search, video search, speech/audio search, music search).
* Search applied to the Internet of Things (billions of devices, sensors, and actuators are now connected to the Web, which will affect how people search and browse the Web).
* IR for social good, including applications for non-profit organizations, governments, and social enterprises.
* Other Applications (digital libraries, enterprise search, genomics IR, legal IR, patent search, text reuse, new retrieval problems).


See the specific calls for the different types of contributions:

- Call for full papers:  
     http://sigir.org/sigir2016/call-for-full-papers/
- Call for short papers:  
     http://sigir.org/sigir2016/call-for-short-papers/
- Call for demos:  
     http://sigir.org/sigir2016/call-for-demonstrations/
- Call for workshops:  
     http://sigir.org/sigir2016/call-for-workshops/
- Call for tutorials:  
     http://sigir.org/sigir2016/call-for-tutorials/
- Call for doctoral consortium (DC) papers: 
     http://sigir.org/sigir2016/call-for-doctoral-consortium-papers/
- Call for industry track papers: 
     http://sigir.org/sigir2016/call-for-industry-track-papers/
     
	
Important Dates

Jan 14, 2016	Abstracts for full research papers due
Jan 21, 2016	Full research papers due
Jan 28, 2016	Workshop proposals due
Feb 11, 2016	Short papers and demonstration proposals due
Feb 18, 2016	Tutorial proposals and DC papers due
Mar  3, 2016	A/R notification for workshops
Mar 17, 2016	A/R notification for tutorials
Mar 31, 2016	A/R notification for full paper, short paper, demo, DC paper 
Apr  7, 2016	Industry track abstracts due
May  5, 2016	A/R notification for industry track papers 
May 19, 2016	Early registration deadline

Jul 17, 2016	ACM SIGIR 2016 - Tutorials and Doctoral Consortium
Jul 18-20, 2016	ACM SIGIR 2016 - Main Conference
Jul 21, 2016	ACM SIGIR 2016 - Workshops

All deadlines are on the date specified at 11:59 pm in the UTC-12 time zone. SIGIR does not accept material that is submitted after the deadline.



General Chairs

Raffaele Perego (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Fabrizio Sebastiani (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
  email: sigir2016-gchairs [AT] isti.cnr.it

Program Chairs

Javed Aslam (Northeastern University, US)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Justin Zobel (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  email: sigir2016-pchairs [AT] isti.cnr.it