SIGIR Forum
December 2019, Volume 53 Number 2
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
From the Chair
Ben Carterette, pp 1-2
SIGIR Reports
Report on the 4th Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries at SIGIR 2019
Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran, Philipp Mayr, pp 3-10
Report on the SIGIR 2019 Workshop on eCommerce (ECOM19)
Jon Degenhardt, Surya Kallumadi, Utkarsh Porwal, Andrew Trotman, pp 11-19
FACTS-IR: Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, Transparency, and Safety in Information Retrieval
Alexandra Olteanu, Jean Garcia-Gathright, Maarten de Rijke, Michael D. Ekstrand (Organizers), pp 20-43
Women In IR: Addressing Gender Inequality
Nazli Goharian, Suzan Verberne, pp 44
Workshop Reports
Report on the International Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES 2018)
Omar Alonso, Gianmaria Silvello, pp 45-53
Report on ESSIR 2019: the 12th European Summer School in Information Retrieval
Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro, Gabriella Pasi, Marco Viviani, pp 54-61
Report on the First HIPstIR Workshop on the Future of Information Retrieval
Laura Dietz, Bhaskar Mitra, Jeremy Pickens, pp 62-75
What does good look like?: Report on the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems (KidRec) at IDC 2019
Theo Huibers, Monica Landoni, Maria Soledad Pera, Jerry Alan Fails, Emiliana Murgia, Natalia Kucirkova, pp 76-81
Report on the Ninth International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2019) Workshop held at The Web Conference, WWW2019
Dirk Ahlers, Erik Wilde, Rossano Schifanella, Jalal S. Alowibdi, pp 82-87
Opinions
The Neural Hype, Justified! A Recantation
Jimmy Lin, pp 88-93
Information Retrieval and Its Sister Disciplines
Grace Yang, pp 94-96
Dissertation Abstracts
Neural Generative Models and Representation Learning for Information Retrieval
Qingyao Ai, pp 97
Modeling User Information Needs on Mobile Devices: from Recommendation to Conversation
Mohammad Aliannejadi, pp 98-99
Search and Analytics Using Semantic Annotations
Dhruv Gupta, pp 100-101
Effective Neural Architectures for Context-Aware Venue Recommendation
Jarana Manotumruksa, pp 102-103
Neural Models for Information Retrieval without Labeled Data
Hamed Zamani, pp 104-105
Spoken Conversational Search: Audio-only Interactive Information Retrieval
Johanne R. Trippas, pp 106-107
Late Breaking
Report on CLEF 2019
Martin Braschler, Linda Cappellato, Fabio Crestani, Nicola Ferro, Gundula Heinatz Bürki, David E. Losada, Henning Müller, Andreas Rauber, Jacques Savoy, pp 108-118
Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging 2019
Felix Engl, Robin Jegan, Leon Martin, pp 119-123
ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2019: Secretary’s Notes
Claudia Hauff, pp 124-127