SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). SIGIR welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR theory and foundation, techniques, and applications.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Document Representation and Content Analysis (e.g., text representation, document structure, linguistic analysis, non-English IR, cross-lingual IR, information extraction, sentiment analysis, clustering, classification, topic models, facets)
Queries and Query Analysis (e.g., query representation, query intent, query log analysis, question answering, query suggestion, query reformulation)
Users and Interactive IR (e.g., user models, user studies, user feedback, search interface, summarization, task models, personalized search)
Retrieval Models and Ranking (e.g., IR theory, language models, probabilistic retrieval models, featur