December 2016

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