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 47th ACM SIGIR conference, will be run as an in-person conference from July 14th to 18th, 2024 in Washington D.C., USA. For the full paper call, we welcome high-impact original papers with contributions related to any aspect of information retrieval and access, including theories, foundations, algorithms, evaluation, analysis, and applications. Please note CFPs for other paper tracks, as well as workshops, tutorials, doctoral consortium, industry day, and other SIGIR 2024 venues will be released separately.
Important Dates for Full Papers
- Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
- Full paper abstracts due: January 18, 2024
- Full papers due: January 25, 2024
- Full paper notifications: March 25, 2024
Full paper authors are required to submit an abstract by midnight January 18, 2024 AoE. Paper submission (deadline: midnight January 25, 2024 AoE) is not possible without a submitted abstract. We recommend authors waiting for notification from other conferences to submit an abstract, even if they do not ultimately submit a paper. Immediately after the abstract deadline, PC Chairs will desk reject submissions that lack informative titles and abstracts (“placeholder abstracts”).
Submission Guidelines
See this brief checklist to strengthen an IR paper, for authors and reviewers.
Full research papers must describe original work that has not been previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not simultaneously submitted or currently under review in another journal or conference (including the other tracks of SIGIR 2024).
Submissions of full research papers must be in English, in PDF format, and be at most 9 pages (including figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any content except references) in length, with unrestricted space for references, in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use “sigconf” proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word). ACM’s CCS concepts and keywords are required for review.
For LaTeX, the following should be used:
documentclass[sigconf,natbib=true,anonymous=true]{acmart}
Submissions must be anonymous and should be submitted electronically via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir24
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and the author(s) or their delegate(s) must present the work at the conference in person.
Anonymity and Pre-Print/ArXiv Policy
The full paper review process is double-blind. Authors are required to take all reasonable steps to preserve the anonymity of their submission. The submission must not include author information; citations or discussion of your own prior work should be written up in third person form. It is acceptable to refer to companies or organizations that provided datasets, hosted experiments or deployed solutions if reviewers can not infer that the authors are currently affiliated with these organizations. You can submit to SIGIR 2024 papers that you have posted to pre-print/archival platforms (e.g. arXiv), or plan to post in the future, after submission. However, your paper must conform to the SIGIR 2024 Pre-Print/ArXiv Policy. Breaking anonymity or pre-print/ArXiv policy puts the submission at risk of being desk rejected.
Authorship Policy
Authors should carefully go through
ACM’s authorship policy before submitting a paper. Please ensure that all authors are
clearly identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To support the identification
of reviewers with conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified at abstract
submission time. No changes to authorship will be permitted for the camera-ready submission
under any circumstance or after the abstract submission deadline. So please, make sure you
have them listed correctly at submission time.
Desk Rejection Policy
Submissions that violate the anonymity, pre-print policy, length, or formatting requirements, or are determined to violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty, including plagiarism, author misrepresentation, falsification, etc., are subject to desk rejection by the chairs. Any of the following may result in desk rejection:
- Figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgements, or any other content after page 9 of the submission.
- Formatting not in line with the guidelines provided above.
- Authors or authors’ institutional affiliations clearly named or easily discoverable.
- Links to source code repositories that reveal author identities, or extended versions of the current paper. It is recommended to hold these for the final published version and submit source code for artifact review.
- Change of authors after the abstract submission deadline.
- Content that has been determined to have been copied from other sources.
- Any form of academic fraud or dishonesty.
- Lack of topical fit for SIGIR.
Relevant Areas
Relevant areas include:
Search and Ranking. Research on core IR algorithmic topics, such as:- Queries and query analysis (e.g., query intent, query understanding, query suggestion and prediction, query representation and reformulation, spoken queries)
- Web search (e.g., ranking of web content, ranking at web scale, link analysis, sponsored search, search advertising, adversarial search and spam, vertical search)
- Retrieval models and ranking (e.g., ranking algorithms, learning to rank, language models, retrieval models, combining searches, diversity, aggregated search, dealing with bias)
- Theoretical models and foundations of information retrieval and access (e.g., new theory, fundamental concepts, theoretical analysis)
- Efficient and scalable indexing, crawling, compression, search, and more
- Energy efficiency and green computing for IR
- Search engine architecture, distributed search, metasearch, peer-to-peer search, search in the cloud, edge IR
- Filtering and recommendation (e.g., content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, recommendation algorithms, zero-query and implicit search, personalized recommendation)
- Cross-domain recommendation, socially- and context-aware recommender systems, multi-stakeholder recommendations
- Data characteristics, data quality, and processing challenges underlying recommender systems
- Novel approaches to recommendation, including voice, VR/AR, etc.
- Preference elicitation, interactive recommender systems
- Other theoretical models and foundations of recommender systems (e.g., economic models)
- Core ML applied to IR, e.g. deep learning for IR, embeddings, reinforcement learning for IR, learning from noisy/few/biased/problematic IR data, generative AI for IR, etc.
- Large Language Models for IR
- Retrieval Augmented Machine Learning
- Question answering (e.g., factoid and non-factoid question answering, interactive question answering, community-based question answering, question answering systems)
- End-to-end conversational IR models and optimization
- Modualized IR techniques (e.g., query understanding, user modeling, intent prediction, context and discourse management, reranking and results presentation)
- Session based search or recommendation, user engagement
- Conversational question answer, conversational IR for tasks, dialog systems, spoken language interfaces, intelligent chat systems
- Intelligent personal assistants and agents
- Mining and modeling users (e.g., user and task models, click models, log analysis, behavioral analysis, modeling and simulation of information interaction, attention modeling).
- Interactive search (e.g., search interfaces, information access, exploratory search, search context, whole-session support, proactive search, personalized search)
- Social search (e.g., social media search, social tagging, crowdsourcing)
- Collaborative search (e.g., human-in-the-loop, knowledge acquisition)
- Information security (e.g., privacy, surveillance, censorship, encryption, security)
- User studies comparing theory to human behaviour for search and recommendation
- User-centered evaluation (e.g., user experience and performance, user engagement, search task design)
- System-centered evaluation (e.g., evaluation metrics, test collections, experimental design, evaluation pipelines, crowdsourcing)
- Beyond Cranfield (e.g., online evaluation, task-based, session-based, multi-turn, interactive search)
- Beyond labels (e.g., simulation, implicit signals, eye-tracking and physiological signals)
- Beyond effectiveness (e.g., value, utility, usefulness, diversity, novelty, urgency, freshness, credibility, authority)
- Methodology (e.g., statistical methods, reproducibility, dealing with bias, new experimental approaches, metrics for metrics)
- Fairness, accountability, transparency and explainability (e.g. confidentiality, representativeness, discrimination and harmful bias)
- Ethics, economics, and politics (e.g., studies on broader implications, norms and ethics, economic value, political impact, social good)
- Two-sided search and recommendation scenarios (e.g. matching users and providers, marketplaces)
- Multimedia search (e.g., image search, video search, speech and audio search, music search)
- Multimedia recommendation (e.g., image, video, music recommendations)
- Multimodal for IR (e.g., multimodal IR optimization, user intent prediction, multimodal personalization, multimodal for collaborative or exploratory algorithms)
- Local and mobile search (e.g., location-based search, mobile usage understanding, mobile result presentation, audio and touch interfaces, geographic search, location context in search)
- Social search (e.g., social networks in search, social media in search, blog and microblog search, forum search)
- Search in structured data (e.g., XML search, graph search, ranking in databases, desktop search, email search, entity-oriented search)
- Education (e.g., search for educational support, peer matching, info seeking in online courses)
- Legal (e.g., e-discovery, patents, other applications in law)
- Health (e.g., medical, genomics, bioinformatics, other applications in health)
- Other applications and domains (e.g., digital libraries, enterprise, expert search, news search, app search, archival search, music search, new retrieval problems including applications of search technology for social good)
- Explicit semantics (e.g. semantic search, named-entities, relation and event extraction)
- Knowledge acquisition (e.g. information extraction, relation extraction, event extraction, query understanding, human-in-the-loop knowledge acquisition)
- Knowledge representation and reasoning (e.g., link prediction, knowledge graph completion, query understanding, knowledge-guided query and document representation, ontology modeling)
- Document representation and content analysis (e.g., cross-lingual and multilingual search, summarization, text representation, linguistic analysis, readability, opinion mining and sentiment analysis, clustering, classification, topic models for search and recommendation)
AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Program Chairs
- Claudia Hauff, Spotify, The Netherlands
- Guido Zuccon, University of Queensland, Australia
- Yi Zhang, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Contact
For any questions about full paper submissions you may contact the Program Chairs by email to sigir24-fullpaperchairs@easychair.org.