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Submitting Papers For Doctoral Consortium Please note, the deadline for paper submissions has now passed. General
The main idea of the Consortium is to give Doctoral students the opportunity to discuss their PhD thesis
proposal with experienced IR researchers and other Doctoral students.
Attendance at the Doctoral Consortium will be based on a written paper, singly authored by the student
wishing to attend the Consortium. Abstracts of the papers will be published in the SIGIR Conference
Proceedings.
Papers must be submitted electronically, via the Doctoral Consortium Submission System. We can accept papers in
either PDF or Postscript. It is the responsibility of authors to ensure that their papers use no unusual
format features and are printable on a standard Postscript printer. PDF or Postscript submissions must
arrive by February 27, 2004. Submission checklist:
Content Guidelines
Your paper will be the basis for detailed discussions at the Consortium, and to get the most out of the
discussion of your paper should include the following: motivation for the proposed research, background
and related work (with key references), description of proposed research including main research questions,
research methodology and proposed experiments (where appropriate), and particular issues which you want
to highlight for discussion.
In addition, a one page Appendix to the paper should include the following: a detailed statement by the
student saying why he/she wants to attend the Consortium; a description of the (IR) research group in
which you work (including numbers of faculty and graduate students); and a statement by your
advisor/supervisor saying how you would benefit by attending the Consortium. Advisors should also state
that the student has written, or is close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent). These
statements should be placed in an Appendix after the references.
All papers will be reviewed with respect to overall quality of presentation, the potential for future
impact of the proposed PhD research on the field of Information Retrieval, and the likely benefit to the
student of attending the Consortium. Given that the abstract will be published, the abstract will be
critically reviewed.
Format
Effectively, the same format is used for Consortium papers as for full SIGIR papers. LaTeX and Word templates for SIGIR submissions are available from the ACM Website. The first page must contain the title
of the paper, full author name, affiliation and contact details, and an abstract of not more than 150
words, and up to 3 topic areas. Papers should contain up to 2,500 words (with a minimum of 1200 words),
should have wide margins, and font sizes must be 10 point or greater. The final version of the paper will
have to fit within 2-4 double-column pages in the standard SIGIR format, including all figures and
bibliography, so plan accordingly. The Appendix containing the statements by the student and advisor will
not be included in the final paper. All correspondence with the author will be through email.
All Consortium paper submissions must include a set of ACM Computing Reviews categories and keywords that
describe the contents of the paper. These categories and keywords must appear after the Abstract and
before the Introduction. Information about selecting and formatting categories and keywords can be found
in ACM Web pages on how to use the computing
classification system and in the LaTeX and Word templates.
The Consortium Chair is David Harper (The Robert Gordon University, UK) who can be emailed at
sigir2004dc@comp.rgu.ac.uk
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