Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

On July 25, more than 1,300 registrants around the world opened their laptops and started attending SIGIR 2020 . Via Zoom and the streaming capabilities of the conference web portal , we were able to watch speakers, raise hands, ask questions, and chat with attendees.  SIGIR 2020 was in Xi'an, China , but few registrants could attend in person due to the travel restrictions imposed to curb the COVID-19 pandemic . The SIGIR 2020 program committee successfully converted their in-person conference to an online variant. They reduced conference fees so more people could attend and made much of the live streaming content available to the public. ACM SIGIR is the premier conference for information retrieval. I have always wanted to attend. I have no papers to present, but Los Alamos National Laboratory was kind enough to pay for my time and attendance. SIGIR 2020 was my first pandemic video conference. I witnessed impressive work in this rapidly changing landscape. The age o...

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...

Mat Kelly reviews "A Personal Privacy Preserving Framework..." by Song et al. at SIGIR 2018.                                                                                                                                                            ...