CfP: ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), 2022

ACM ICTIR 2022
The 8th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
July 15, 2022,

The ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) is the premier conference of theoretical Information Retrieval (IR). The conference welcomes papers on core IR, and any paper on connections between IR and its related disciplines, like NLP.

We also welcome experimental and industrial papers that validate approaches from the lens of practical applicability. However, such papers should, apart from validating the practical applicability of an existing approach, provide a clear message to the community as to which aspects need further (theoretical) investigation, based on the experimental findings. ICTIR also encourages papers aimed at defining  new tasks or to apply novel and fundamentally different ideas to tackle information retrieval tasks.

Contributions could be:

●      Theoretical papers that model various phenomena related to IR, and/or between concepts, models and theories;

●      Conceptual papers that explore key concepts, new paradigms and new ways of thinking about problems in IR;

●      Papers that explore the behavior of IR algorithms (why and how an algorithm works);

●      Papers presenting preliminary work on exciting new ideas or approaches applicable to IR;

●      Papers describing failed (but plausible!) approaches along with a thorough failure analysis;

●      Papers studying theory in experimental or industrial settings;

●      Other papers that address foundational aspects of IR.

All IR related topics are a priori relevant to ICTIR, including (but not limited to):

●      IR theory and practice: new retrieval problems, retrieval algorithm behavior analysis, recommendation algorithm behavior analysis, understanding IR models, quantum IR or other non-conventional retrieval and ranking models, new evaluation measures, mathematical analyses of measures, new evaluation paradigms

●      User aspects of IR: interactive and dynamic search, information seeking, modelling and simulation of information interaction, contextual and personalized search, search interfaces, understanding context information, understanding retrieval results, user modeling for ranking and evaluation, user modelling in conversational search

●      IR system architectures and scalability: understanding IR system architecture, efficient content representation, compression for IR, string processing for IR, IR system scalability

●      Content representation and processing: natural language processing for IR, multimodal IR, multilingual IR, linguistic analysis, text representation, topic models

●      Machine learning for IR: deep learning, kernel methods, Markov decision processes, online learning, optimization, learning to rank, hyper-parameter and model selection, reinforcement learning

●      Applications and domain-specific IR: information extraction, information fusion, legal IR, patent search, health-related search, search applied to the Internet of Things, social and collaborative search, voice and image search, search on structured and semi-structured documents, task-based and exploratory search, Web search, digital libraries


************ Key Dates ************

Paper submission deadline: April 29, 2022
Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2022
Camera ready deadline: July 1, 2022
Conference date: July 15, 2022
Time Zone: Anywhere on Earth (AOE)

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Mohammad Aliannejadi
IRLab, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Homepage: https://aliannejadi.com
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