SIGIR Forum
December 2017, Volume 51 Number 3
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
From the Chair
Diane Kelly, pp 1-3
ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2017: Secretary’s Notes
Emine Yilmaz, pp 4-9
Test Of Time Award
Personalizing Search via Automated Analysis of Interests and Activities
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz, pp 10-17
Articles
What We Talk About When We Talk About Information Retrieval
Justin Zobel, pp 18-26
Toward Document Understanding for Information Retrieval
Mostafa Dehghani, pp 27-31
Some Common Mistakes In IR Evaluation, And How They Can Be Avoided
Norbert Fuhr, pp 32-41
ACM SIGIR Student Liaison Program
Mohammad Aliannejadi, Maram Hasanain, Jiaxin Mao, Jaspreet Singh, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani, Laura Dietz, pp 42-45
An Information Nutritional Label for Online Documents
Norbert Fuhr, Anastasia Giachanou, Gregory Grefenstette, Iryna Gurevych, Andreas Hanselowski, Kalervo Jarvelin, Rosie Jones, Yiqun Liu, Josiane Mothe, Wolfgang Nejdl, Isabella Peters, Benno Stein, pp 46-66
Conference Reports
Report on CLEF 2017: Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction
Linda Cappellato, Nicola Ferro, Lorraine Goeuriot, Julio Gonzalo, Gareth J. F. Jones, Liadh Kelly, Seamus Lawless, Thomas Mandl, pp 67-77
Report on the 2017 ACM SIGIR International Conference Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR’17)
Hui Fang, Jaap Kamps, Evangelos Kanoulas, Maarten de Rijke, Emine Yilmaz, pp 78-87
Summer School Reports
Asian Summer School in Information Access (ASSIA 2017)
Makoto P. Kato, Takehiro Yamamoto, Hideo Joho, Masatoshi Yoshikawa, pp 88-93
Report on the 11th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2017)
Pavel Braslavski, Jaap Kamps, Julia Kiseleva, Alexander Halperin, pp 94-98
Workshop Reports
Report on the SIGIR 2017 Workshop on Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks (ATIR)
Enrique Amigo, Hui Fang, Stefano Mizzaro, ChengXiang Zhai, pp 99-106
Report on the 2nd Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries (BIRNDL 2017)
Philipp Mayr, Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Kokil Jaidka, pp 107-113
CAIR’17: First International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval at SIGIR 2017
Hideo Joho, Lawrence Cavedon, Jaime Arguello, Milad Shokouhi, Filip Radlinski, pp 114-121
Report on the Second International Workshop on the Evaluation on Collaborative Information Seeking and Retrieval (ECol’2017 @ CHIIR)
Leif Azzopardi, Jeremy Pickens, Chirag Shah, Laure Soulier, Lynda Tamine, pp 122-127
Report on the SIGIR 2017 Workshop on eCommerce (ECOM17)
Jon Degenhardt, Surya Kallumadi, Yiu-Chang Lin, Maarten de Rijke, Luo Si, Andrew Trotman, Sindhuja Venkatesh, Xu Yinghui, pp 128-138
Overview of the First Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval and Analysis (KG4IR)
Laura Dietz, Chenyan Xiong, Edgar Meij, pp 139-144
Report on LEARNER 2017: 1st International Workshop on LEARning Next gEneration Rankers
Nicola Ferro, Claudio Lucchese, Maria Maistro, Raffaele Perego, pp 145-151
Report on the Second SIGIR Workshop on Neural Information Retrieval (Neu-IR’17)
Nick Craswell, W. Bruce Croft, Maarten de Rijke, Jiafeng Guo, Bhaskar Mitra, pp 152-158
Dissertation Abstracts
Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Information Retrieval Systems
Matteo Catena, pp 159-160
Semantic Mapping in Video Retrieval
Maaike H.T. de Boer, pp 161-162
Non-Uniform Information Access in Collaborative Information Retrieval
Nyi Nyi Htun, pp 163-164
Applying Cognitive Learner Models for Recommender Systems in Sparse Data Learning Environments
Simone Kopeinik, pp 165
Modeling Activation Processes in Human Memory to Improve Tag Recommendations
Dominik Kowald, pp 166