Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

SIGIR 2024 Opening Session ACM SIGIR 2024 was held in Washington, D.C from July 14 - 18. There were over 900 attendees! The conference also featured two themed days: LLM Day and Government Day. Parallel topic sessions included presentations for full papers, resource papers, and invited Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) journal papers. Short papers were presented as posters altogether in one session. Dr. Nelson ( @phonedude_mln ) and I ( @lesley_elis ) both attended SIGIR 2024.  Monday Opening and Keynote: Gerald Salton Award The conference opened on Monday, with the conference chairs presenting about registration and the program chairs presenting about how papers were selected. The review process used an automated system to match reviewers to papers based on information from DBLP. This also was used to avoid conflicts, to the extent that reviewers and authors had different countries. Next, the opening keynote was reserved for the Gerald Salton Award winner. Congratulation...

The eighth ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval ( #CHIIR2023 ) was held online in Austin, Texas, from March 19 to 23. After three years of virtual conferences, CHIIR 2023 switched to an in-person and online hybrid format. We ( Bhanuka , Mohan , Dr. Vikas Ashok , and Dr. Sampath Jayarathna ) presented our demonstration titled " DisETrac: Distributed Eye-Tracking for Online Collaboration " in person in Texas. Today I'm excited to join my first in-person conference since the start of my Ph.D. @ACM_CHIIR #CHIIIR2023 pic.twitter.com/8Y8nfR0EKs — Bhanuka Mahanama (@mahanama94) March 20, 2023 CHIIR is a well-established multi-and interdisciplinary conference with a research community engaged in human-computer interaction, information retrieval, information behavior, and human-information interaction. The full and perspective paper submissions of CHIIR 2023 comprised 26 accepted publications with an acceptance rate of 39.4%, presented over...