SIGIR Forum
Volume 48 Number 2
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
From the Chair
Charles Clarke, pp 1-1
ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2014: Secretary’s Notes
Jaap Kamps, pp 2-9
SIGIR 2014 Test of Time Award
Fernando Diaz, pp 10-11
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR)
Ryen White, pp 12-13
Articles
Visualization for Relevance Assessments
Omar Alonso, pp 14-21
Experimentation Standards for Crisis Informatics
Fernando Diaz, pp 22-30
CLEF 15th Birthday: Past, Present, and Future
Nicola Ferro, pp 31-55
Conference Reports
CLEF 2014
Linda Cappellato, Paul Clough, Nicola Ferro, Mark Hall, Martin Halvey, Allan Hanbury, Evangelos Kanoulas, Wessel Kraaij, Mihai Lupu, Mark Sanderson, Elaine Toms, Robert Villa, pp 56-62
SIGIR Workshop Reports
ERD’14: Entity Recognition and Disambiguation Challenge
David Carmel, Ming-Wei Chang, Evgeniy Gabrilovitch, Bo-June (Paul) Hsu, Kuansan Wang, pp 63-77
Report on the SIGIR 2014 Workshop on Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR)
Lorraine Goeuriot, Liadh Kelly, Gareth J.F. Jones, Henning Müller, Justin Zobel, pp 78-82
PIR 2014: The First International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR: When Information Retrieval Meets Privacy and Security
Luo Si, Hui Yang, pp 83-88
Other Workshop Reports
Report on the 4th Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation (CaRR 2014)
Alan Said, Ernesto W. De Luca, Daniele Quercia, pp 89-92
Report on the WebQuality 2014 Workshop
Adam Jatowt, Carlos Castillo, James Caverlee, Katsumi Tanaka, pp 93-95
Report on the 1st International Workshop on Information Access in Smart Cities (i-ASC 2014)
M-Dyaa Albakour, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Charles L.A. Clarke, Veli Bicer, pp 96-104
8th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2014)
Pavel Braslavski, Nikolay Karpov, Marcel Worring, Yana Volkovich, Dmitry I. Ignatov, pp 105-110
Report on the 3rd MUMIA Training School on Information Retrieval and Interactive Information Access
Michail Salampasis, Yannis Tzitzikas, pp 111-115
Dissertation Abstracts
Semantic Search as Inference: Large Applications in Health Informatics
Bevan Koopman, pp 116-117
Interactive Exploration of Multi-Dimensional Information Spaces with Preference Support
Panagiotis Papadakos, pp 118-118
Geo-Temporal Mining and Searching of Events from Web-Based Image Collections
Massimiliano Ruocco, pp 119-120