SIGIR Forum
Volume 47 Number 2
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
From the Chair…
Charles Clarke, p 1
ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2013: Secretary’s Notes
Jaap Kamps, pp 2-7
Article
Evaluation as a Service for Information Retrieval
Jimmy Lin and Miles Efron, pp 8-14
Conference Reports
CLEF 2013
Nicola Ferro, Pamela Forner, Henning Müller, Roberto Navigli, Roberto Paredes, Paolo Rosso, Benno Stein, Dan Tufis, pp 15-20
INEX 2013
P. Bellot, G. Kazai, M. Preminger, M. Trappett, A. Doucet, M. Koolen, E. SanJuan, A. Trotman, S. Geva, A. Mishra, R. Schenkel, M. Sanderson, S. Gurajada, V. Moriceau, X. Tannier, F. Scholer, J. Kamps, J. Mothe, M. Theobald, Q. Wang, pp 21-32
HCIR 2013: The Seventh International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Robert Capra, Luanne Freund, Catherine L. Smith, Mark D. Smucker, Ryen W. White, pp 33-40
ECIR 2013: 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval
Pavel Serdyukov, Pavel Braslavski, Jaap Kamps, pp 41-57
Workshop Reports
Asian Summer School in Information Access (ASSIA 2013)
Hideo Joho, Noriko Kando, Yohei Seki, Tetsuya Sakai, Shigeo Sugimoto, pp 58-63
Report on the SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Benchmarking Adaptive Retrieval and Recommender Systems
Pablo Castells, Alan Said, Frank Hopfgartner, Mounia Lalmas, pp 64-67
ENRICH 2013: The First Workshop on the Exploration, Navigation and Retrieval of Information in Cultural Heritage
Seamus Lawless, Owen Conlan, Maristella Agosti, Paul Clough, pp 68-73
The Second Workshop of the European Network for Work Information (ENWI)
Pia Borlund, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser-Hacker, pp 74-77
Report on EuroHCIR 2013: The 3rd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval
Preben Hansen, Max L. Wilson, Birger Larsen, Kristian Norling, Tony Russell-Rose, pp 78-83
Report on the SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Modeling User Behavior for Information Retrieval Evaluation (MUBE 2013)
Charles L. A. Clarke, Luanne Freund, Mark D. Smucker, Emine Yilmaz, pp 84-95
7th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2013)
Pavel Braslavski, Nikita Zhiltsov, Stefan Rüger, Yana Volkovich, pp 96-100
Report on the SIGIR 2013 Workshop on Health Search and Discovery
Ryen W. White, Elad Yom-Tov, Eric Horvitz, Eugene Agichtein, William Hersh, pp 101-108
Report on the Scottish Informatics and Computing Science Alliance’s Information Retrieval Workshop (IRFest)
Martin Halvey, Leif Azzopardi, pp 109-115
NSF Workshop on Task-based Information Search Systems
Diane Kelly, Jaime Arguello, Robert Capra, pp 116-127
Report on the Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries (WADL 2013)
Edward A. Fox, Mohamed M. Farag, pp 128-133
Report on the WebQuality 2013 Workshop
Adam Jatowt, Carlos Castillo, Zoltan Gyongyi, Katsumi Tanaka, pp 134-136
Dissertation Abstracts
Disambiguating Implicit Temporal Queries for Temporal Information Retrieval Applications
Ricardo Campos, pp 137-138
Living Analytics Methods for the Social Web
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, pp 139-139
Fast and Reliable Online Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval
Katja Hofmann, pp 140-140
Context-Based Health Information Retrieval
Carla Teixeira Lopes, pp 141-142