SIGIR Forum
June 2017, Volume 51 Number 1
Table of Contents
SIGIR News
From the Chair
Diane Kelly, pp 1-3
SIGIR 2016 Test of Time Award
Accurately Interpreting Clickthrough Data as Implicit Feedback
Thorsten Joachims, Laura Granka, Bing Pan, Helene Hembrooke, Geri Gay, pp 4-11
ECIR and Satellite Event Reports
Report on the Information Retrieval Festival (IRFest2017)
Leif Azzopardi, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis, Martin Halvey, pp 12-28
Report on the 5th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR 2017)
Philipp Mayr, Ingo Frommholz, Guillaume Cabanac, pp 29-35
ECIR 2017 Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP 2017)
Saptarshi Ghosh, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Debasis Ganguly, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Gareth J.F. Jones, Marie-Francine Moens, pp 36-41
Report on the Workshop on Social Media for Personalization And Search (SoMePeAS)
Ludovico Boratto, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Giovanni Stilo, pp 42-44
Other Workshop Reports
Report on RecSys 2016 Workshop on New Trends in Content-Based Recommender Systems
Toine Bogers, Marijn Koolen, Cataldo Musto, Pasquale Lops, Giovanni Semeraro, pp 45-51
Report on the Seventh International Workshop on Location and the Web (LocWeb 2017)
Dirk Ahlers, Erik Wilde, pp 52-57
Report on the Second Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks
Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps, Toine Bogers, Nicholas Belkin, Diane Kelly, Emine Yilmaz, pp 58-66
Practical Issues in Information Access System Evaluation
Evangelos Kanoulas, Jussi Karlgren, pp 67-72
Dissertation Abstracts
Scalability and Performance of Random Forest based Learning-to-Rank for Information Retrieval
Muhammad Ibrahim, pp 73-74
Literature-Based Discovery by Learning Heterogeneous Bibliographic Information Networks
Yakub Sebastian, pp 75-76