Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

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ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
Parent organization
 Association for Computing Machinery
Website sigir.org

SIGIR is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. The scope of the group's specialty is the theory and application of computers to the acquisition, organization, storage, retrieval and distribution of information; emphasis is placed on working with non-numeric information, ranging from natural language to highly structured data bases.

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Conferences

The annual international SIGIR conference, which began in 1978, is considered the most important in the field of information retrieval. SIGIR also sponsors the annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) in association with SIGWEB, the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and the International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) in association with SIGKDD, SIGMOD, and SIGWEB.

SIGIR conference locations

NumberYearLocation
211998 Melbourne
221999 Berkeley, California
232000 Athens
242001 New Orleans
252002 Tampere
262003 Toronto
272004 Sheffield
282005 Salvador, Bahia
292006 Seattle
302007 Amsterdam
312008 Singapore
322009 Boston
332010 Geneva
342011 Beijing
352012 Portland, Oregon
362013 Dublin
372014 Gold Coast, Queensland
382015 Santiago
392016 Pisa
402017 Tokyo
412018 Ann Arbor
422019 Paris
432020 Xi'an, China
442021 Montreal
452022 Madrid
462023 Taipei
472024 Washington,_D.C.

Awards

The group gives out several awards to contributions to the field of information retrieval. The most important award is the Gerard Salton Award (named after the computer scientist Gerard Salton), which is awarded every three years to an individual who has made "significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval". Additionally, SIGIR presents a Best Paper Award [1] to recognize the highest quality paper at each conference. "Test of time" Award [2] is a recent award that is given to a paper that has had "long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of information retrieval research, across subareas of information retrieval research, and outside of the information retrieval research community". This award is selected from a set of full papers presented at the main SIGIR conference 10–12 years before.

SIGIR Academy

The ACM SIGIR Academy [3] [4] is a group of researchers honored by SIGIR. Each year, 3-5 new members are elected (in addition to other "very senior members of the IR community" who will be "automatically" inducted) for having made significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval and influencing the research of others. These are the principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the discipline and/or industry through significant research, innovation, and/or service.

Inductees by year

Here are the inductees into the SIGIR Academy by year:

YearNew members
2021James Allan, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Nicholas Belkin, Andrei Broder, Jamie Callan, William Cooper, W. Bruce Croft, Susan Dumais, Edward Fox, Ophir Frieder, Norbert Fuhr, Marti Hearst, Kalervo Järvelin, Thorsten Joachims, Noriko Kando, Diane Kelly, Michael Lesk, Yoelle Maarek, Alistair Moffat, Marc Najork, C.J. van Rijsbergen, Stephen Robertson, Tefko Saracevic, Ellen Voorhees, ChengXiang Zhai
2022Charles L. A. Clarke, William Hersh, Jian-Yun Nie, Maarten de Rijke, Jaime Teevan, Justin Zobel
2023Nick Craswell, Nicola Ferro, Jimmy Lin, Tetsuya Sakai, Ryen W. White, Yiming Yang
2024 Fernando Diaz (computer scientist), Donna Harman, Mounia Lalmas, Mark Sanderson, Yiqun Liu

See also

References

  1. ↑ "SIGIR Conference Best Paper Awards" . Retrieved 2012-08-29.
  2. ↑ "SIGIR Conference Test of Time Awards" . Retrieved 2015-12-29.
  3. ↑ "SIGIR Academy". Awards. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "SIGIR Academy: Announcement and Call for Nominations" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-11-05.
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