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ACM SIGIR 2018<\/b> July 8-12, 2018. \u00a0\u00a0Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Call for Short Papers<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The annual SIGIR conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results, and the demonstration of new systems and techniques, in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The 41st ACM SIGIR conference, to be held in Ann Arbor, U.S.A, welcomes contributions related to any aspect of information retrieval and access, including theories and foundations, algorithms and applications, and evaluation and analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n The conference and short paper program chairs invite those working in areas related to IR to submit\u00a0<\/span>original (four-page) short papers<\/b>, which will be presented as posters at the conference. Short papers present original, previously unpublished work that make a novel research contribution to the field. They provide an opportunity to describe significant work in progress or research that is best communicated in an interactive or graphical format. Compared to full papers, their contribution may be narrower in scope, be applied to a narrower set of application domains, or have weaker empirical support than that expected for a full paper. Submissions likely to generate discussions in new and emerging areas are especially encouraged. We welcome submissions in all areas related to any aspect of IR, as identified in the call for full papers on the conference website (<\/span>https:\/\/easychair.org\/cfp\/sigir2018<\/span><\/a><\/span>) and repeated in the list below. Short papers will follow the same track structure as full papers and authors should choose an appropriate short paper track when submitting their paper. The paper might be switched to another track by program chairs or track chairs when it is necessary.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Submissions will be peer reviewed, and accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. At least one author for each accepted submission is required to register for the conference by the early registration deadline. Furthermore, an author must be present at the conference to present the work as a poster during the poster session, where researchers can obtain direct feedback about their work from a wide audience. Accepted submissions where authors fail to register by the early deadline or cannot attend to present are subject to being withdrawn from the conference proceedings at the discretion of the chairs. A Best Short Paper Award will be awarded; nominations will be decided based on reviewer assessments on the submitted version with the Awards committee making the final decision among the nominees based on review of the camera-ready version.<\/span><\/p>\n Submission Guidelines<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n All papers must be original works by the authors, previously unpublished, and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.\u00a0Submissions of short papers must be in English, in PDF format, and should not exceed four (4) pages in the current ACM two-column conference format (including references and figures). Suitable LaTeX and Word templates are available from the\u00a0<\/span>ACM Website<\/span><\/a>. Short papers must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. Submissions should not contain any author identification and should be submitted electronically via the\u00a0<\/span>conference submission system<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0The short-paper review process is double-blind.\u00a0Authors are required to take all reasonable steps to preserve the anonymity of their submission.\u00a0While authors can upload to institutional or other preprint repositories such as\u00a0<\/span>arXiv.org<\/span><\/a>\u00a0before reviewing is complete, we generally discourage this since it places anonymity at risk (which could result in a negative outcome of the reviewing process).\u00a0Submissions which violate the pre-print policy, anonymity, length, or formatting requirements or are plagiarized are subject to desk-rejection by the chairs. Authors should carefully go through\u00a0<\/span><\/span>ACM\u2019s authorship policy<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0before submitting a paper.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Authors should note that changes to the author list after the submission deadline are\u00a0<\/span>not allowed<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0without permission from the PC Chairs.\u00a0 At least one author of each accepted paper is\u00a0<\/span>required<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0to register for,\u00a0attend, and present the work at the conference in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n All short papers are to be submitted via EasyChair at\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=sigir2018<\/b><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/b>to a track named \u201cShort Paper – <Track Name>\u201d where <Track Name> is one of the tracks listed below that the authors feel match the content of the paper.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b>The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n