Thanks to your feedback,
“…this study estimates that TREC’s existence was responsible for approximately one-third of an improvement of more than 200% in web search products that was observed between 1999 and 2009.”
More here.
SIGIR has posted best paper nominees.
There is a survey being conducted about the impact of TREC on information retrieval research. This feedback is important for organizers and I encourage researchers to participate. If you are outside of the IR community and have ever used TREC collections, this is feedback is also valuable.
SIGIR Poster decisions have been mailed. Full paper decisions should be soon as well. Authors are encouraged to post preprints/drafts of accepted publications in the comments section.
PAPERS
The program committee reviewed 494 full paper submissions and accepted 78, about a 16% acceptance rate.
In 2008, 497 submitted, 85 accepted, about a 17% acceptance rate.
POSTERS
The program committee reviewed 256 poster submissions and accepted 86, about a 34% acceptance rate.
In 2008, 173 submitted, 91 accepted, about a 53% acceptance rate.
UPDATE
Accepted papers published.
Conference URLs:
Important Dates:
| Jan 19, 2009 | Abstracts for full research papers due |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Full research paper submissions due |
| Feb 2, 2009 | Workshop proposals due |
| Feb 23, 2009 | Posters, demonstration, and tutorial proposals due |
| Mar 2, 2009 | Doctoral consortium proposals due |
| Mar 9, 2009 | Notification of workshop acceptances |
| Apr 11, 2009 | All other acceptance notification |
WSDM 2009 accepted papers posted here.
