2019-07-30: SIGIR 2019 in Paris Trip Report
ACM SIGIR 2019 was held in Paris, France July 21-25, 2019 in the conference center of the Cite des sciences et de l'industrie . Attendees were treated to great talks, delicious food, sunny skies, and warm weather. The final day of the conference was historic - Paris' hottest day on record (42.6 C, 108.7 F). There were over 1000 attendees, including 623 for tutorials, 704 for workshops, and 918 for the main conference. The acceptance rate for full papers was a low 19.7%, with 84/426 submissions accepted. Short papers were presented as posters, set up during the coffee breaks, which allowed for nice interactions among participants and authors. ( Conference schedule - contains links to videos of many of the talks ) Several previously-published ACM TOIS journal papers were invited for presentation as posters or oral presentations. We were honored to be invited to present our 2017 ACM TOIS paper, " Comparing the Archival Rate of Arabic, English, Danish, and Korean La...