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SIGIR News
- Get ready for SIGIR 2013 in Dublin, Ireland!
- This year's best paper award was presented to Mark Smucker and Charles Clarke for their paper "Time-based calibration of effectiveness measures". The best student paper award was awarded to Shuzi Niu, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, and Xueqi Cheng for their paper "Top-k learning to rank: labeling, ranking and evaluation". There was an honorable mention for Lidan Wang, Paul Bennett, and Kevyn Collins-Thompson for "Robust ranking models via risk-averse optimization".
- ACM SIGIR honors Norbert Fuhr
For pioneering contributions to approaches that now dominate the search industry, ACM SIGIR honors Norbert Fuhr from the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) with the 2012 Gerard Salton Award. Fuhr developed probabilistic retrieval models for databases and XML, and his research on probabilistic models anticipated the current interest in learning to rank approaches in search operations. Fuhr receives the award at the ACM SIGIR Conference in Portland, Oregon, USA, where he gives the opening keynote address. Read more in the ACM Press release. - SIGIR Forum, June 2012 is available.
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SIGIR Sponsored Conferences
- CIKM 2012 (Maui, Hawaii USA) - October 29-November 2, 2012
- WSDM 2013 (Rome, Italy) - February 4-8, 2013
- JCDL 2013 (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) - June, 2013
- SIGIR 2013 (Dublin, Ireland) - July 28-August 1, 2013
Conferences held in Cooperation with SIGIR
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- AIRS 2012 (Tianjin, China) - December 17-19, 2012
- ECIR 2013 (Moscow, Russia) - March 24-28, 2013