Editorial Policy and Forum Editors

Editorial Policy

Several types of either invited or submitted contributions are published in SIGIR Forum, including (but not limited to):

  • Reports of IR-related conferences and workshops: Reports from the chairpersons of IR-related workshops (such as the satellite workshops of SIGIR, JCDL, or CIKM, or other workshops such as NTCIR, INEX) or IR-related conferences other than SIGIR (such as ECIR, HLT, CHIIR, SPIRE, or TREC);
  • Papers from IR-related invited talks which are not published in full in the relevant conference proceedings;
  • Papers describing new public infrastructures for IR research, such as in-depth descriptions of newly available test collections, newly available open-source or public domain IR software of particular relevance, new evaluation campaigns, etc.;
  • Papers about funding initiatives, industry trends, connections between research and industry, legal issues that are of potential interest to the IR community at large;
  • Any paper that, while of general interest to the IR community, is non-technical, and because of this would be unsuitable for publication in technical publishing forums such as the SIGIR Annual Conference;
  • Book reviews, bibliographies of general interest to the IR community;
  • Abstracts of recently published Ph.D. theses of interest to the general IR community.

SIGIR Forum does not generally publish (and thus does not solicit the submission of) technical papers that, provided they are of sufficient quality, would be appropriate for a technical forum such as e.g. the SIGIR Annual Conference.

Notice to Contributing Authors

By submitting your article for distribution in this Special Interest Group publication, you hereby grant to ACM the following non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide rights:

  • to publish in print on condition of acceptance by the editor
  • to digitize and post your article in the electronic version of this publication
  • to include the article in the ACM Digital Library
  • to allow users to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial, educational or research purposes

However, as a contributing author, you retain copyright to your article and ACM will make every effort to refer requests for commercial use directly to you.

Editors

Tirthankar Ghosal
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States
editors_SIGIR@acm.org

Josiane Mothe
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) / SIG team
118, Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse cedex 04, France
editors_SIGIR@acm.org

Julián Urbano
Delft University of Technology
Van Mourik Broekmanweg 6 – 5.E280
2628 XE Delft, The Netherlands
editors_SIGIR@acm.org