Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval

Parent organization

| Association for Computing Machinery
Website| sigir.org

SIGIR is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. The scope of the group's specialty is the theory and application of computers to the acquisition, organization, storage, retrieval and distribution of information; emphasis is placed on working with non-numeric information, ranging from natural language to highly structured data bases.

## Contents

* 1 Conferences
* 1.1 SIGIR conference locations
* 2 Awards
* 2.1 SIGIR Academy
* 2.1.1 Inductees by year
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Conferences

The annual international SIGIR conference, which began in 1978, is considered the most important in the field of information retrieval. SIGIR also sponsors the annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) in association with SIGWEB, the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and the International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) in association with SIGKDD, SIGMOD, and SIGWEB.

### SIGIR conference locations

Number  | Year  | Location

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21  | 1998  | Melbourne
22  | 1999  | Berkeley, California
23  | 2000  | Athens
24  | 2001  | New Orleans
25  | 2002  | Tampere
26  | 2003  | Toronto
27  | 2004  | Sheffield
28  | 2005  | Salvador, Bahia
29  | 2006  | Seattle
30  | 2007  | Amsterdam
31  | 2008  | Singapore
32  | 2009  | Boston
33  | 2010  | Geneva
34  | 2011  | Beijing
35  | 2012  | Portland, Oregon
36  | 2013  | Dublin
37  | 2014  | Gold Coast, Queensland
38  | 2015  | Santiago
39  | 2016  | Pisa
40  | 2017  | Tokyo
41  | 2018  | Ann Arbor
42  | 2019  | Paris
43  | 2020  | Xi'an, China
44  | 2021  | Montreal
45  | 2022  | Madrid
46  | 2023  | Taipei
47  | 2024  | Washington, D.C.

## Awards

The group gives out several awards to contributions to the field of information retrieval. The most important award is the Gerard Salton Award (named after the computer scientist Gerard Salton), which is awarded every three years to an individual who has made "significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval". Additionally, SIGIR presents a Best Paper Award [1] to recognize the highest quality paper at each conference. "Test of time" Award [2] is a recent award that is given to a paper 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". This award is selected from a set of full papers presented at the main SIGIR conference 10–12 years before.

### SIGIR Academy

The ACM SIGIR Academy[3][4] is a group of researchers honored by SIGIR. Each year, 3-5 new members are elected (in addition to other "very senior members of the IR community" who will be "automatically" inducted) for having made significant, cumulative contributions to the development of the field of information retrieval and influencing the research of others. These are the principal leaders of the field, whose efforts have shaped the discipline and/or industry through significant research, innovation, and/or service.

#### Inductees by year

Here are the inductees into the SIGIR Academy by year:

Year  | New members

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2021  | James Allan, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Nicholas Belkin, Andrei Broder, Jamie Callan, William Cooper, W. Bruce Croft, Susan Dumais, Edward Fox, Ophir Frieder, Norbert Fuhr, Marti Hearst, Kalervo Järvelin, Thorsten Joachims, Noriko Kando, Diane Kelly, Michael Lesk, Yoelle Maarek, Alistair Moffat, Marc Najork, C.J. van Rijsbergen, Stephen Robertson, Tefko Saracevic, Ellen Voorhees, ChengXiang Zhai
2022  | Charles L. A. Clarke, William Hersh, Jian-Yun Nie, Maarten de Rijke, Jaime Teevan, Justin Zobel
2023  | Nick Craswell, Nicola Ferro, Jimmy Lin, Tetsuya Sakai, Ryen W. White, Yiming Yang
2024  | Fernando Diaz (computer scientist), Donna Harman, Mounia Lalmas, Mark Sanderson, Yiqun Liu

## See also

* Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

## References

1. ↑ "SIGIR Conference Best Paper Awards". https://sigir.org/awards/awards.html#bestpaper.
2. ↑ "SIGIR Conference Test of Time Awards". https://sigir.org/awards/test-of-time-awards/.
3. ↑ "SIGIR Academy". https://sigir.org/awards/sigir-academy/.
4. ↑ "SIGIR Academy: Announcement and Call for Nominations". https://sigir.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/p02.pdf.

## External links

* Official website
* SIGIR awards website

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Awards|

| ACM|

* Turing Award
* ACM Fellowship
* ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
* Athena Lecturer Award
* Eckert–Mauchly Award
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* SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering

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SIGs|

* CHI Academy
* Gödel Prize
* Knuth Prize
* Steven A. Coons Award

Publications|

* Journal of the ACM
* Communications of the ACM
* RISKS Digest
* ACM Digital Library
* ACM Computing Surveys
* Computers in Entertainment
* ACM Interactions
* ACM Queue
* ACM XRDS

Conferences|

* ACM-MM
* ASPLOS
* CHI
* CIKM
* DAC
* DEBS
* FAT*
* FCRC
* GECCO
* GHC
* HOPL
* Hot Chips
* Hypertext
* SenSys
* ISCA
* ISMM
* ISPD
* ISSAC
* JCDL
* MobiCom
* PLDI
* PODC
* PODS
* POPL
* PPoPP
* SC
* SIGCOMM
* SIGCSE
* SIGGRAPH
* SoCG
* SODA
* SOSP
* SPAA
* SPLASH
* STOC
* TAPIA
* UIST
* VRIC

Educational programs|

* ACM-W
* ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
* ACM Student Research Competition
* Upsilon Pi Epsilon

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