The SIGIR Test of Time Award recognizes research that has had long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of information retrieval research, across subareas of information retrieval research, and outside of the information retrieval research community (e.g. non-information retrieval research or industry). The winning paper is selected from the set of full papers presented at the main SIGIR conference 10-12 years before.
The first year this award was given was 2014. Pre-2002 papers that received the award can be found on this page.
SIGIR 2023
Beliefs and biases in web search
Ryen W. White
SIGIR 2013
Honorable Mentions
- A cascade ranking model for efficient ranked retrieval
Lidan Wang, Jimmy Lin, Donald Metzler
SIGIR 2011 - Faster top-k document retrieval using block-max indexes
Shuai Ding, Torsten Suel
SIGIR 2011
SIGIR 2022
Modeling the impact of short- and long-term behavior on search personalization
Paul Bennett, Ryen W. White, Wei Chu, Susan Dumais, Peter Bailey, Fedor Borisyuk, Xiaoyuan Cui
SIGIR 2012
Honorable Mention
- Uncovering social spammers: social honeypots + machine learning
Kyumin Lee, James Caverlee, Steve Webb
SIGIR 2010
SIGIR 2021
Exploiting geographical influence for collaborative point-of-interest recommendation
Mao Ye, Peifeng Yin, Wang Chien Lee, Dik Lun Lee
SIGIR 2011
SIGIR 2020
Learning to recommend with social trust ensemble.
Hao Ma, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
SIGIR 2009
Honorable Mentions
- A user browsing model to predict search engine click data from past observations
Georges E. Dupret, Benjamin Piwowarski
SIGIR 2008 - Selecting good expansion terms for pseudo-relevance feedback
Guihong Cao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jianfeng Gao, Stephen Robertson
SIGIR 2008
SIGIR 2019
Novelty and diversity in information retrieval evaluation
Charles L.A. Clarke, Maheedhar Kolla, Gordon V. Cormack, Olga Vechtomova, Azin Ashkan, Stefan Büttcher, Ian MacKinnon
SIGIR 2008
Honorable Mentions
- AdaRank: a Boosting Algorithm for Information Retrieval
Jun Xu, Hang Li
SIGIR 2007
SIGIR 2018
Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan Dumais
SIGIR 2006
Honorable Mentions
- LDA-based document models for ad-hoc retrieval
Xing Wei, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR 2006 - Formal models for expert finding in enterprise corpora
Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke
SIGIR 2006 - Learning user interaction models for predicting web search result preferences
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan Dumais, Robert Ragno
SIGIR 2006
SIGIR 2017
Personalizing search via automated analysis of interests and activities
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
SIGIR 2005
Honorable Mentions
- A Markov random field model for term dependencies
Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR 2005 - Information retrieval system evaluation: effort, sensitivity, and reliability
Mark Sanderson, Justin Zobel
SIGIR 2005
SIGIR 2016
Accurately interpreting clickthrough data as implicit feedback
Thorsten Joachims, Laura Granka, Bing Pan, Helene Hembrooke, Geri Ga
SIGIR 2005
Honorable Mention
- Retrieval evaluation with incomplete information
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
SIGIR 2004
SIGIR 2015
Stuff I’ve seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use
Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, Daniel C. Robbins
SIGIR 2003
Honorable Mentions
- Document clustering based on non-negative matrix factorization
Wei Xu, Xin Liu, Yihong Gong
SIGIR 2003 - Automatic image annotation and retrieval using cross-media relevance models
J. Jeon, V. Lavrenko, R. Manmatha
SIGIR 2003 - Modeling annotated data
David M. Blei, Michael I. Jordan
SIGIR 2003
SIGIR 2014
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John Lafferty
SIGIR 2003
Honorable Mentions
- Predicting query performance
Steve Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR 2002 - The importance of prior probabilities for entry page search
Wessel Kraaij, Thijs Westerveld, Djoerd Hiemstra
SIGIR 2002 - Methods and metrics for cold-start recommendations
Andrew I. Schein, Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, David M. Pennock
SIGIR 2002