[CPM-SPIRE-L] ACM SIGIR 2019 Call for short papers

[Lorraine Goeuriot]

[Apologies for cross-posting]

ACM SIGIR 2019
The 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
July 21-25, 2019.   Paris, France
Call for Short Papers

The annual SIGIR conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results, and the demonstration of new systems and techniques, in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The 42nd ACM SIGIR conference, to be held in Paris, welcomes contributions related to any aspect of information retrieval and access, including theories and foundations, algorithms and applications, and evaluation and analysis.
 
The conference and short paper program chairs invite those working in areas related to IR to submit original (four-page) short papers, which will be presented as posters at the conference. Short papers present original, previously unpublished work that make a novel research contribution to the field. They provide an opportunity to describe significant work in progress or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. Compared to full papers, their contribution may be narrower in scope, be applied to a narrower set of application domains, or have weaker empirical support than that expected for a full paper. Submissions likely to generate discussions in new and emerging areas are especially encouraged. We welcome submissions in all areas related to any aspect of IR, as identified in the call for full papers on the conference website (http://sigir.org/sigir2019/submit.html <http://sigir.org/sigir2019/submit.html>) and repeated in the list below. 
 
Submissions will be peer reviewed, and accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author for each accepted submission is required to register for the conference by the early registration deadline. Furthermore, an author must be present at the conference to present the work as a poster during the poster session, where researchers can obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience. Accepted submissions where authors fail to register by the early deadline or cannot attend to present are subject to being withdrawn from the conference proceedings at the discretion of the chairs. A Best Short Paper Award will be awarded; nominations will be decided based on reviewer assessments on the submitted version with the Awards committee making the final decision among the nominees based on review of the camera-ready version.
Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original works by the authors, previously unpublished, and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Submissions of short papers must be in English, in PDF format, and should not exceed four (4) pages in the current ACM two-column conference format (including references and figures). Suitable LaTeX and Word templates are available from the ACM Website <http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>. Short papers must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. Submissions should not contain any author identification and should be submitted electronically via the conference submission system <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2018>. The short-paper review process is double-blind. Authors are required to take all reasonable steps to preserve the anonymity of their submission. While authors can upload to institutional or other preprint repositories such as arXiv.org <http://arxiv.org/> before reviewing is complete, we generally discourage this since it places anonymity at risk (which could result in a negative outcome of the reviewing process). Submissions which violate the pre-print policy, anonymity, length, or formatting requirements or are plagiarized are subject to desk-rejection by the chairs. Authors should carefully go through ACM’s authorship policy <https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/authorship> before submitting a paper. Authors should note that changes to the author list after the submission deadline are not allowed without permission from the PC Chairs.  At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, attend, and present the work at the conference in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.
 
All short papers are to be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir2019> to a track named “Short Paper”.
List of Topics

Upon submission, authors should select one or two relevant topics among the seven topics indicated below that best represent the area of their submission.

Search and Ranking. Research on core IR algorithmic topics, including IR at scale, covering topics such as:
Queries and query analysis
Web search, including link analysis, sponsored search, search advertising, adversarial search and spam, and vertical search
Retrieval models and ranking, including diversity and aggregated search
Efficiency and scalability
Theoretical models and foundations of information retrieval and access
Future Directions. Research with theoretical or empirical contributions on new technical or social aspects of IR, especially in more speculative directions or with emerging technologies, covering topics such as:
Novel approaches to IR
Ethics, economics, and politics
Applications of search to social good
IR with new devices, including wearable computing, neuroinformatics, sensors, Internet-of-Things, vehicles
Domain-Specific Applications. Research focusing on domain-specific IR challenges, covering topics such as:
Local and mobile search
Social search
Search in structured data including email search and entity search
Multimedia search
Education
Legal
Health, including genomics and bioinformatics
Other domains such as digital libraries, enterprise, news search, app search, archival search
Content Analysis, Recommendation and Classification. Research focusing on recommender systems, rich content representations and content analysis, covering topics such as:
Filtering and recommender systems
Document representation
Content analysis and information extraction, including summarization, text representation, readability, sentiment analysis, and opinion mining
Cross- and multilingual search
Clustering, classification, and topic models
Artificial Intelligence, Semantics, and Dialog. Research bridging AI and IR, especially toward deep semantics and dialog with intelligent agents, covering topics such as:
Question answering
Conversational systems and retrieval, including spoken language interfaces, dialog management systems, and intelligent chat systems
Semantics and knowledge graphs
Deep learning for IR, embeddings, and agents
Human Factors and Interfaces. Research into user-centric aspects of IR, including user interfaces, behavior modeling, privacy, and interactive systems, covering topics such as:
Mining and modeling search activity, including user and task models, click models, log analysis, behavioral analysis, and attention modeling
Interactive and personalized search
Collaborative search, social tagging and crowdsourcing
Information privacy and security
Evaluation. Research that focuses on the measurement and evaluation of IR systems, covering topics such as:
User-centered evaluation methods, including measures of user experience and performance, user engagement and search task design
Test collections and evaluation metrics, including the development of new test collections
Eye-tracking and physiological approaches, such as fMRI
Evaluation of novel information access tasks and systems such as multi-turn information access
Statistical methods and reproducibility issues in information retrieval evaluation
Important Dates (Timezone: Anywhere on Earth <https://www.worldtimeserver.com/time-zones/aoe/>)

February 12, 2019: SIGIR Short paper abstracts due
February 19, 2019: SIGIR Short papers due
April 14, 2019: SIGIR Short Paper Notifications
July 21 – July 25, 2019: SIGIR Conference & Workshops
Committees

Short paper track chairs

Zhicheng Dou, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Mounia Lalmas, Spotify, London, United Kingdom
Marc Najork, Google LLC, Mountain View, California
Program chairs

Yoelle Maarek, Amazon, Haifa, Israel
Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Falk Scholer, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
General chairs

Max Chevalier, CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Eric Gaussier, CNRS & Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Benjamin Piwowarski, CNRS, LIP6, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Venue

The conference will be held in Paris, France, Sunday July 21 – Thursday July 25, 2019.
Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to sigir2019-short at poleia.lip6.fr <mailto:sigir2019-short at poleia.lip6.fr>










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