Probably Irrelevant » Conferences http://probablyirrelevant.org Information Retrieval Research and Development Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:43:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 “Economic Impact Assessment of NIST’s Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Program” http://probablyirrelevant.org/2010/07/economic-impact-assessment-of-nist%e2%80%99s-text-retrieval-conference-trec-program/ http://probablyirrelevant.org/2010/07/economic-impact-assessment-of-nist%e2%80%99s-text-retrieval-conference-trec-program/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:43:14 +0000 Fernando http://probablyirrelevant.org/?p=84 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.

]]> http://probablyirrelevant.org/2010/07/economic-impact-assessment-of-nist%e2%80%99s-text-retrieval-conference-trec-program/feed/ 0 SIGIR 2010 Best Paper Nominees http://probablyirrelevant.org/2010/07/sigir-2010-best-paper-nominees/ http://probablyirrelevant.org/2010/07/sigir-2010-best-paper-nominees/#comments Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:18:57 +0000 Fernando http://probablyirrelevant.org/?p=82 SIGIR has posted best paper nominees.

  • A comparison of general vs personalized affective models for the prediction of topical relevance, I. Arapakis, K. Athanasakos, J. Jose
  • Assessing the Scenic Route: Measuring the Value of Search Trails in Web Logs, R. White, J. Huang
  • Caching Search Engine Results over Incremental Indices, F. Junqueira, R. Blanco, E. Bortnikov, R. Lempel, L. Telloli, H. Zaragoza
  • Comparing the Sensitivity of Information Retrieval Metrics, F. Radlinski, N. Craswell
  • Extending Average Precision to Graded Relevance Judgments, S. Robertson, E. Kanoulas, E. Yilmaz
  • Information Based Model for ad hoc information retrieval, S. Clinchant, E. Gaussier
  • Multi-style language model for web scale information retrieval, K. Wang, J. Gao, X. Li
  • Properties of Optimally Weighted Data Fusion in CBMIR, P. Wilkins, A. Smeaton
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]]> http://probablyirrelevant.org/2010/02/trec-survey/feed/ 0 SIGIR 2009 ACCEPTED PAPERS THREAD http://probablyirrelevant.org/2009/04/sigir-2009-accepted-papers-thread/ http://probablyirrelevant.org/2009/04/sigir-2009-accepted-papers-thread/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:04:09 +0000 Fernando http://probablyirrelevant.org/?p=55 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.

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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
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