SIGIR 2009

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit original papers, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems.

SIGIR 2009 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, including:

Foundations. IR theory, IR architecture, content representation, indexing, ranked retrieval, collaborative IR, relevance feedback, interactive IR, IR evaluation, user studies Techniques. Machine learning for IR, learning to rank, clustering, IR scalability and efficiency, adversarial IR, user modeling for IR, citation analysis for IR, non-topical analysis for IR (genre detection, authorship attribution, attitude detection), privacy in IR Content. Text retrieval, cross-language retrieval, structured documents, language-specific IR, metadata-based IR, social tagging for IR, music IR, speech IR, image IR, video IR Applications. Web IR, advertisement targeting, question answering, enterprise search, filtering, summarization, text mining, digital libraries, domain specific IR, mobile IR SIGIR offers a mentoring program for full papers being submitted to the conference. Mentors are volunteers familiar with successful submissions, and will advise you on appropriateness, structure, prior work, and other high-level issues. Mentoring must be requested by 17 Nov 2008.

Important Dates (all in 2009) -- NOTE: Updates since preliminary call available here

19 Jan Abstracts for full research papers due 26 Jan Full research papers submissions due 02 Feb Workshop proposals due 23 Feb Poster, demonstration, and tutorial proposals due 02 Mar Doctoral consortium proposals due 09 Mar Notification of workshop acceptances 11 Apr All other acceptance notifications

Details will be available at http://sigir2009.org by mid-December. This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP