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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.sigir200
7.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.sigir200
7.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.si
gir2007.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.sigir200
7.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.sigir20
07.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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