The SIGIR Test of Time Award recognizes research that has had long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of information retrieval research, across subareas of information retrieval research, and outside of the information retrieval research community (e.g. non-information retrieval research or industry). The winning paper is selected from the set of full papers presented at the main SIGIR conference 10-12 years before. The SIGIR 2016 award will be selected from the set of full papers presented at SIGIR 2004, 2005, and 2006. The committee will select a subset of the candidates to evaluate for the award. Of the qualifying papers, the top 5 papers from the SIGIR main conference ranked by citation according to the ACM Digital Library will automatically be nominated for consideration. In addition, we encourage nominations from the community of papers not automatically selected. See the nominations page for further details.
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The SIGIR Test of Time Award recognizes research that has had long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of information retrieval research, across subareas of information retrieval research, and outside of the information retrieval research community (e.g. non-information retrieval research or industry). The winning paper is selected from the set of full papers presented at the main SIGIR conference 10-12 years before. The SIGIR 2015 award will be selected from the set of full papers presented at SIGIR 2003, 2004, and 2005. The committee will select a subset of the candidates to evaluate for the award. Of the qualifying papers, the top 5 papers from the SIGIR main conference ranked by citation according to the ACM Digital Library will automatically be nominated for consideration. In addition, we encourage nominations from the community of papers not automatically selected. See the nominations page for further details.
SIGIR 2014 Best Paper Awards
The SIGIR 2014 Best Paper Award was presented to Giuseppe Ottaviano and Rossano Venturini for their paper Partitioned Elias-Fano indexes.
Leif Azzopardi received a Honourable Mention for his paper Modelling interaction with economic models of search.
The Best Student Paper Award was awarded to Dmitry Lagun, Chih-Hung Hsieh, Dale Webster, and Vidhya Navalpakkam for their paper Towards better measurement of attention and satisfaction in mobile search.
At SIGIR 2014, we introduced a new Test of Time Award, recognizing the best of SIGIR from the years 2002 to 2004. Details on the award process, as well as a reprint of this year’s winner, should appear in the November issue of SIGIR Forum. Many thanks to Fernando Diaz, our Awards Chair, for making this new award happen.
This year the Test of Time Award went to Cheng Xiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, and John Lafferty for their paper Beyond independent relevance: Methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval from SIGIR 2003.
Three papers received Honourable Mention, all from SIGIR 2002: Predicting query performance by Steve Cronen-Townsend, Yun Zhou, and W. Bruce Croft; The importance of prior probabilities for entry page search by Wessel Kraaij, Thijs Westerveld, and Djoerd Hiemstra; Methods and metrics for cold-start recommendations by Andrew I. Schein, Alexandrin Popescul, Lyle H. Ungar, and David M. Pennock.
Congratulations to the winners!
SIGIR 2013 Best Paper Awards
The SIGIR 2013 best paper award was presented to Ryen W. White for his paper “Beliefs and Biases in Web Search”. The best student paper award was awarded to Karthik Raman, Paul N. Bennett, and Kevyn Collins-Thompson for their paper “Toward Whole-Session Relevance: Exploring Intrinsic Diversity in Web Search”.