Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
- Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
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 series, which began in 1978 (there was an initial SIGIR conference in 1971), is considered the most important in the field of information retrieval. The 30th edition, [http://www.sigir2007.org SIGIR 2007] took place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Next editions are [http://www.sigir2008.org SIGIR 2008] in Singapore, and [http://www.sigir2009.org SIGIR 2009] in Boston MA, USA. SIGIR also sponsors the annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries [http://www.jcdl.org/ JCDL] in association with SIGWEB, the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management [http://www.cikm.org/ CIKM] , and in 2008 the International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining [http://wsdm2008.org/ WSDM] in association with SIGKDD, SIGMOD, and SIGWEB.
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".
External links
* [http://www.sigir.org/ SIGIR web site]
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