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SIGIR 2007 News letter for February 2007
The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
23-27 July 2007, Amsterdam
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In this edition:
1. Dead line for posters, demos, workshops and tutorials approaching
2. More paper submissions than ever before
3. Microsoft - the first Diamond Sponsor
4. Industry Day on final day of the conference
5. Call for workshops and tutorials
6. Call for posters and demonstrations
7. Call for doctoral consortium
8. Important Dates
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1. Dead line for posters, demos, workshops and tutorials approaching
Authors are invited to submit proposals for poster presentations,
demonstrations, workshops and tutorials. Please read the submission
guidelines on http://www.sigir2007.org/submissions.html
The dead line for sending in proposals is 25 February 2007.
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2. More paper submissions than ever before
The SIGIR program chairs reported 491 paper submissions, an increase
of 92 compared to last year, and a new record for this conference.
The program committee will prepare a program with more papers than
last year to keep the acceptance rates at a reasonable level.
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3. Microsoft - the first Diamond Sponsor
We are happy to announce that Microsoft supports SIGIR in Amsterdam
at the Diamond level!
Sponsor donations allow the conference registration fees to be kept
as low as possible, both to promote attendance and to offset the cost
of events and provide services and items that benefit all involved in
the event. Thank you Microsoft!
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4. Industry Day on final day of the conference
SIGIR Amsterdam will be the first SIGIR conference to be followed
by a special day for information retrieval practitioners and
companies. Jan Pedersen, Chief Scientist for the Search and
Marketplace Division of Yahoo!, chairs the organisation of this
Industry Day. Jan will be supported by Martine Kunel of TNO
Information and Communication Technology, and Bernd Wondergem
of Thaesis.
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5. Call for workshops and tutorials
Proposals are solicited for one-day or half-day workshops to be held
on July 27, 2007, the last day of the conference. The purpose of SIGIR
workshops is to provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less
formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. As
such, they also offer a good opportunity for young researchers to
present their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community.
The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organizers, but
it is expected that they contain ample time for general discussion.
Workshop proposals must be sent by email to the Workshops Chair,
Josiane Mothe by February 25, 2007. Read more on:
http://www.sigir2007.org/cfw.html
Proposals are solicited for tutorials of either a half-day (3 hours
plus breaks) or full day (6 hours plus breaks) on all topics of
information retrieval and its applications. Especially encouraged are
(1) cross-disciplinary tutorials that educate the IR community about
recent technical advancements in related fields (e.g., machine
learning, natural language processing, data mining); (2) tutorials
about emerging application areas of information retrieval technologies
(e.g., Web, bioinformatics). Tutorial proposals must be sent via email
by February 25, 2007 to the Tutorial Chair, ChengXiang Zhai. Read more:
http://www.sigir2007.org/cft.html
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6. Call for posters and demonstrations
Poster presentations offer researchers a unique opportunity to present
late-breaking results, significant work in progress, or research that
is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. They
further provide researchers with an opportunity to obtain direct
feedback about their work from a wide range of persons during the
poster session. Posters should focus on problems and methodology of the
presented research. Extended abstracts describing the work will be
reviewed and published in the conference proceedings. Please note
however, that posters describing work at the proposal stage will not
be accepted. Submissions need to be received by February 25, 2007.
Read more on: http://www.sigir2007.org/cfposters.html
Demonstrations present first-hand experience with research prototypes
or operational systems. They provide opportunities to exchange ideas
gained from implementing IR systems and to obtain feedback from expert
users. Demonstration submissions are welcomed in any of the areas
identified in the call for papers. One-page demonstration abstracts
will appear in the conference proceedings. Demonstration proposals
must be submitted by February 25, 2007. Read more on:
http://www.sigir2007.org/cfd.html
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7. Call for doctoral consortium
The ACM SIGIR Doctoral Consortium provides doctoral students with a
unique opportunity to have substantive interaction with other
researchers regarding their proposed dissertation research. The
objectives of the Doctoral Consortium are:
* To provide a forum where doctoral students can present and
discuss their proposed research with experienced IR researchers
the members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee.
* To give students an opportunity to establish a supportive
community of other doctoral students at the same stage of their
dissertation research as themselves.
The Consortium will take place on the same day as the Tutorials,
with the format being: student presentations with plenary discussions,
lunch, individual meetings with experienced researchers, and dinner.
Submissions must arrive on or before March 11, 2007. Read more on:
http://www.sigir2007.org/cfdc.html
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8. Important Dates
February 25, 2007: Poster, demonstration, tutorial, and workshop submissions
March 11, 2007: Doctoral consortium submissions due
April 11, 2007: Notification of acceptance for all submissions
July 23-27, 2007: Conference in Amsterdam
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