Call for SIRIP 2021 (Industry Track) Speaker Proposals

We solicit position papers & speaker proposals for SIRIP talks around the following categories:

• Innovative approaches used in deployed systems and products. We also encourage presentations from small companies, especially startups or spin-offs from either a university project or a large company. Papers discussing domain specific challenges are also welcome.
• Position papers on the current and future state of IR in practice, and the role IR could play in shaping the next generation of information access systems. For example:
  • Building information retrieval systems with an emphasis on trust and safety:
    • Combating misinformation spread
    • Building privacy preserving retrieval systems
    • Algorithmic responsibility & fairness
  • Role of information retrieval in remote & virtual setting
  • Role of search & IR in creator economy (e.g. short video platforms, audio platforms) & marketplaces (e.g. delivery services, hospitality industry, crowdfunding platforms,  retail platforms, rentals)
• System design case-studies from industry practitioners, identifying best practices and design principles for learning systems, scalability aspects
• Metrics and measurement techniques used at scale to understand performance of industrial systems
• Presentations creating a connection with academia to solve interesting problems, including presentations from academics spending time in industry, or vice-versa, covering insights for other practitioners

The presentation format of the Symposium will be decided based on submissions and interest to the wider community, and is likely to be a mix of short and long presentations as well as panels.

Proposals should be at most 2 pages and follow the ACM format. Formatting guidelines are available at the ACM Website (use the ˮsigconf” proceedings template). Please include:

• title, abstract, main contributions, and relevancy to SIRIP 2021 themes
• a brief company portrait (for startup presentations)
• a short CV of the presenters

A condition of acceptance is that at least one author commits to attend SIRIP 2021 to present the work. The authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit a 2-pages camera ready paper.

Submissions are not anonymous and should contain speaker details. Proposals should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=sigir2021