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.
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 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. 48 2025 Padova, Italy 49 2026 Naarm, Melbourne
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 to recognize the highest quality paper at each conference. "Test of time" Award 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 SIGIR Academy is a group of researchers honored by ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. 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.
History The SIGIR Academy was established in 2021 by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) to recognize individuals who have made significant cumulative contributions to the field of information retrieval.
Inductees by year
Here are the inductees into the SIGIR Academy by year:
Year New members2021James 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 Zhai2022Charles L. A. Clarke, William Hersh, Jian-Yun Nie, Maarten de Rijke, Jaime Teevan, Justin Zobel2023Nick Craswell, Nicola Ferro, Jimmy Lin, Tetsuya Sakai, Ryen W. White, Yiming Yang2024Fernando Diaz, Donna Harman, Mounia Lalmas, Mark Sanderson, Yiqun Liu2025David Carmel, Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Don Metzler, Chirag Shah, Ian Soboroff, Min Zhang2026Jiafeng Guo, David Hawking, Iadh Ounis
See also
References
External links
SIGIR awards website