SIGIR Forum
December 2016, Volume 50 Number 2
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
From the Chair
Diane Kelly, pp 1-2
ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2016: Secretary’s Notes
Emine Yilmaz, pp 3-9
Articles
Data-Driven Information Retrieval
Maristella Agosti, Omar Alonso, Maarten de Rijke, Raffaele Perego, pp 10-14
Women in IR
Laura Dietz, Elinor Brondwine, Shiri Dori-Hacohen, Ellen Voorhees, pp 15-17
Conference Reports
Report on NTCIR-12: The Twelfth Round of NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research
Makoto P. Kato, Kazuaki Kishida, Noriko Kando, Tetsuya Sakai, Mark Sanderson, pp 18-27
Summer School Reports
10th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2016)
Alexander Kotov, Elena Treshcheva, Leonid Bessonov, Dmitry I. Ignatov, Yana Volkovich, Maria Eskevich, Pavel Braslavski, pp 28-35
Workshop Reports
Report on the Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2016)
Guillaume Cabanac, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Ingo Frommholz, Kokil Jaidka, Min-Yen Kan, Philipp Mayr, Dietmar Wolfram, pp 36-43
EVIA 2016: The Seventh International Workshop on Evaluating Information Access
Charles L. A. Clarke, Emine Yilmaz, pp 44-46
GamifIR 2016 – SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Gamification for Information Retrieval
Michael Meder, Frank Hopfgartner, Gabriella Kazai, Udo Kruschwitz, pp 47-50
Report on the Sixth International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2016)
Dirk Ahlers, Erik Wilde, pp 51-57
Report on the Lucene4IR workshop: Developing Information Retrieval Evaluation Resources using Lucene (L4IR2016)
Leif Azzopardi, Yashar Moshfeghi, Martin Halvey, Rami S. Alkhawaldeh, Krisztian Balog, Emanuele Di Buccio, Diego Ceccarelli, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Charlie Hull, Jake Mannix, Sauparna Palchowdhury, pp 58-75
Report on the SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR)
Lorraine Goeuriot, Steven Bedrick, Gareth J.F. Jones, Anastasia Krithara, Henning Müller, George Paliouras, pp 76-81
Report on the 2nd Workshop on Managing the Evolution and Preservation of the Data Web (MEPDaW 2016)
Jeremy Debattista, Javier D. Fernández, Jürgen Umbrich, pp 82-88
ECIR 2016 Workshop on Modeling, Learning and Mining for Cross/Multilinguality (MultiLingMine ’16)
Dino Ienco, Mathieu Roche, Salvatore Romeo, Paolo Rosso, Andrea Tagarelli, pp 89-95
Report on the SIGIR 2016 Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR)
Nick Craswell, W. Bruce Croft, Jiafeng Guo, Bhaskar Mitra, Maarten de Rijke, pp 96-103
Dissertation Abstracts
Exploiting Linked Data in Exploratory Search
Pavlos Fafalios, pp 104-105
Targeted Search Engines for Children: Search User Interfaces and Information-Seeking Behaviour
Tatiana Gossen, pp 106
Knowledge Work in Context: User Centered Knowledge Worker Support
Maya Sappelli, pp 107-108