[dbjapan] [CFA] 情報検索分野トップカンファレンス ACM SIGIR2017 東京開催のご案内

[Takehiro Yamamoto <tyamamot [at] dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

日本データベース学会の皆様
（重複して受け取られた方はご容赦ください）

京都大学の山本岳洋です．

2017年8月に東京にて開催される SIGIR2017 の
参加募集をご案内いたします．
Early-bird registration は5月末までとなっております．

皆様のご参加を心よりお待ちしております．

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ACM 
SIGIRは情報検索分野における国際会議の最高峰で、2017年に40周年を迎えます。
この記念すべきSIGIR 
2017は、2017年8月7-11日に新宿の京王プラザホテルで開催されます。日本で開催される初めてのSIGIRです。

キーノートは、Okapi BM25で名高いStephen Robertson教授とYahoo Vice President of 
ResearchのYoelle Maarek博士です。
78フルペーパー（採択率22%）、121ショートペーパー（30%）、17 
デモ（47%）、9博士コンソーシアム（64%）の発表と、チュートリアルと企業トラックがあります。
ワークショップはまだ論文受付中です。
参加登録を開始しました。早期登録は5月末まで。特に学生のパスポートが非常にお得です。併設のサマースクールASSIA2017＠京都も参加受付中です。
東京観光、着付け、茶の湯など、同伴者用プログラムも充実しています（海外からの参加者向け）。会場には託児サービスもあります。バンケットはホテル椿山荘東京です。
みなさまでお越しくださいませ。

SIGIR 2017 ジェネラルチェア
神門典子（国立情報学研究所） 酒井哲也（早稲田大学） 上保秀夫（筑波大学）


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Call For Participation: 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on 
Research and Development in Information Retrieval (7--11 August 2017)

SIGIR is the premier international forum for the presentation of new 
research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques 
in information retrieval.

Please join us to celebrate the 40th anniversary of SIGIR in Tokyo, a 
city of hospitality, rich culture, exquisite cuisine, brilliant nature 
and neon lights, electronics, Japanimation and otaku!
The conference venue, Keio Plaza Hotel, is close to JR Shinjuku Station, 
which is easily accessible from both Haneda and Narita Airports. The 
conference will run from 7th to 11th August 2017.

Conference Features

SIGIR 2017 will include:
A program of full papers, short papers, and demonstrations
http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/accepted-papers/

Keynote presentations from world-leading experts in information 
retrieval, Yoelle Maarek and Stephen E. Robertson
http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/keynote-speakers/

Workshops on emerging areas in information retrieval [Note: workshop 
submissions are still open!]
http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/workshops/
ATIR’17: Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks
https://www.eecis.udel.edu/‾hfang/ATIR.html
BIRNDL’17: Bibliometric-enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/birndl-sigir2017/
CAIR’17: Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval
https://sites.google.com/view/cair-ws
ECOM’17: eCommerce
http://sigir-ecom.weebly.com/
KG4IR’17: Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval and Analysis
https://kg4ir.github.io/
LIARR’17: Lucene for Information Access and Retrieval Research
https://liarr2017.github.io/
Neu-IR’17: Neural Information Retrieval
http://neu-ir.weebly.com/
OKBQA’17: Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering
http://sigir2017.okbqa.org/

Tutorials on key topics in information retrieval
http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/tutorials/
Statistical Significance Testing in Information Retrieval: Theory and 
Practice
Candidate Selection for Large Scale Personalized Search and Recommender 
Systems
A/B Testing at Scale: Accelerating Software Innovation
Probabilistic Topic Models for Text Data Retrieval and Mining
Neural Networks for Information Retrieval (NN4IR)
Building Test Collections: An Interactive Guide for Students and Others 
Without Their Own Evaluation Conference Series
From Design to Analysis: Conducting Controlled Laboratory Experiments 
with Users
SIGIR 2017 Tutorial on Health Search (HS2017) ? A Full-day from 
Consumers to Clinicians

An industry track, the Symposium on IR in Practice (SIRIP)

An extensive social program
http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/social/

Cultural events for accompanying people
http://sigir.org/sigir2017/attend/tourist-information/

Childcare service
http://sigir.org/sigir2017/attend/childcare/

Registration
http://sigir.org/sigir2017/attend/registration/
Registration for SIGIR'17 is now open. Early-bird registration is 
available until May 31, 2017.
Important: please be sure to register now if you will need a visa to 
enter Japan.

Further Information

Please check the SIGIR'17 website for further information and regular 
updates, and follow us on Twitter (@SIGIR17) or Facebook for breaking 
announcements.
http://sigir.org/sigir2017/
https://twitter.com/sigir17
https://www.facebook.com/sigir2017/

Inquiries:
sigir2017-contact [at] nii.ac.jp


Organization

General chairs
Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics
Tetsuya Sakai, Waseda University
Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba

Program chairs
Hang Li, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
Arjen de Vries, Radboud University
Ryen White, Microsoft Cortana

Short paper chairs
Hui Fang, University of Delaware
Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo!
Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University

Demo chairs
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University
Takehiro Yamamoto, Kyoto University

Best paper chairs
Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland

SIRIP chairs
Sumio Fujita, Yahoo! JAPAN
Vanessa Murdock, Microsoft

Publicity/social chairs
Yukino Baba, Kyoto University
Harumi Murakami, Osaka City University
Falk Scholer, RMIT University

Tutorial chairs
Fernando Diaz, Spotify
Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University

Doctoral consortium chairs
Makoto P. Kato, Kyoto University
Kira Radinsky, Technion

Workshop chairs
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam
Grace Hui Yang, Georgetown University

Proceedings chairs
Takuya Kida, Hokkaido University
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University

Sponsorship chairs
Tsuneaki Kato, The University of Tokyo
Paraic Sheridan, Dublin City University

40th anniversary award chair
Diane Kelly, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Treasurers
Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics
Hiroaki Ohshima, Kyoto University

Local arrangements
Yuka Egusa, National Institute for Educational Policy Research
Emi Ishita, Kyushu University
Masao Takaku, University of Tsukuba

Student volunteer chair
Atsushi Keyaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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Takehiro Yamamoto, Assistant Professor
Department of Social Informatics,
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Email: tyamamot [at] dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Tel: 075-753-4957
http://rerank-lab.org/