July 25-30, 2020 (Xi'an, China)

Scope & Topics

SIGIR conference (since 1971) focuses on research and development in information retrieval. It is the major international forum for the presentation of new research and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval. The 5 days conference including 1 day tutorials, 3 days main conference (keynote speech, panel, research session, doctoral consortium, industry track, demonstration, poster) and 1 day workshops, as well as many academic and social events. We cordially invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit your original works including theories and foundations, algorithms and applications, evaluation and analysis to the conference..

Topics of Interest

• Engaging Users with Multimedia
• Filtering and recommender systems
• Content analysis and information extraction, including summarization, text representation, readability, sentiment analysis, and opinio
• Clustering, classification, and topic models
• Artificial Intelligence, Semantics, and Dialog. Research bridging AI and IR, especially toward deep semantics and dialog with
• Mining and modeling search activity, including user and task models
• click models, log analysis, behavioral analysis, and attention modeling
• Interactive and personalized search
• MCollaborative search, social tagging and crowdsourcing
• Information privacy and security
• Vision and language
  
• Resource-efficient multimedia computing on edges