SIGIR 2007: Call for Papers

The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on
Research and Development in Information Retrieval
23-27 July 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.sigir2007.org

SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new
research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques
in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and
Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit
original research contributions, posters, and proposals for tutorials,
workshops, and demonstrations of systems. Deadline for full papers:
January 28, 2007.

SIGIR 2007 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, including:

* IR Theory and Formal Models
* Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency
* Content representation, Indexing, Structure, XML, Metadata
* IR Evaluation, Test collections, Evaluation methods and metrics,
Experimental design, Data collection and analysis
* Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies,
User models, Task-based IR, User/Task-based IR theory
* Web IR, Intranet/enterprise search, Citation and link analysis,
Adversarial IR
* Distributed IR, Fusion/Combination
* Digital libraries
* Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine
translation for IR
* Video and image retrieval, Audio and speech retrieval, Music
retrieval
* Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering,
Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
* Question answering, Information extraction, Summarization,
Lexical acquisition
* Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR
* Text Categorization and Clustering
* Genomic IR, IR in software engineering, IR for chemical
structures, Mobile applications

Senior Programme Committee Members

Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)
James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)
Pia Borlund (Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark)
Andrei Broder (Yahoo!)
Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University)
Gord Cormack (University of Waterloo)
Nick Craswell (MSN Search)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Ed Fox (Virginia Tech)
Sanda Harabagiu (University of Texas at Dallas)
Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University)
Rosie Jones (Yahoo!)
Jaana Kekäläinen (University of Tampere)
Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
John Lafferty (CMU)
Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary University of London)
Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia)
Yoelle Maarek (Google)
Isabelle Moulinier (Thomson Legal & Regulatory)
Sung-Hyon Myaeng (Information & Communications University, Daejeon, Korea)
Doug Oard (University of Maryland, College Park)
Jan Pedersen (Yahoo!)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam)
Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow)
Stephen Robertson (Microsoft Research Cambridge)
Stefan Rueger (Imperial College London)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde)
Jacques Savoy (University of Neuchâtel)
Fabrizio Sebastiani (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
Luo Si (Purdue)
Ian Soboroff (NIST)

Important Dates

January 28, 2007: Full research papers due
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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