日本データベース学会の皆様 （重複して受け取られた方はご容赦ください） 京都大学の山本岳洋です． 2017年8月に東京にて開催される SIGIR2017 の 参加募集をご案内いたします． Early-bird registration は5月末までとなっております． 皆様のご参加を心よりお待ちしております． ============================ ACM SIGIRは情報検索分野における国際会議の最高峰で、2017年に40周年を迎えます。 この記念すべきSIGIR 2017は、2017年8月7-11日に新宿の京王プラザホテルで開催されます。日本で開催される初めてのSIGIRです。 キーノートは、Okapi BM25で名高いStephen Robertson教授とYahoo Vice President of ResearchのYoelle Maarek博士です。 78フルペーパー（採択率22%）、121ショートペーパー（30%）、17 デモ（47%）、9博士コンソーシアム（64%）の発表と、チュートリアルと企業トラックがあります。 ワークショップはまだ論文受付中です。 参加登録を開始しました。早期登録は5月末まで。特に学生のパスポートが非常にお得です。併設のサマースクールASSIA2017＠京都も参加受付中です。 東京観光、着付け、茶の湯など、同伴者用プログラムも充実しています（海外からの参加者向け）。会場には託児サービスもあります。バンケットはホテル椿山荘東京です。 みなさまでお越しくださいませ。 SIGIR 2017 ジェネラルチェア 神門典子（国立情報学研究所） 酒井哲也（早稲田大学） 上保秀夫（筑波大学） ----------------- Call For Participation: 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (7--11 August 2017) SIGIR is the premier international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in information retrieval. Please join us to celebrate the 40th anniversary of SIGIR in Tokyo, a city of hospitality, rich culture, exquisite cuisine, brilliant nature and neon lights, electronics, Japanimation and otaku! The conference venue, Keio Plaza Hotel, is close to JR Shinjuku Station, which is easily accessible from both Haneda and Narita Airports. The conference will run from 7th to 11th August 2017. Conference Features SIGIR 2017 will include: A program of full papers, short papers, and demonstrations http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/accepted-papers/ Keynote presentations from world-leading experts in information retrieval, Yoelle Maarek and Stephen E. Robertson http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/keynote-speakers/ Workshops on emerging areas in information retrieval [Note: workshop submissions are still open!] http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/workshops/ ATIR’17: Axiomatic Thinking for Information Retrieval and Related Tasks https://www.eecis.udel.edu/‾hfang/ATIR.html BIRNDL’17: Bibliometric-enhanced IR and NLP for Digital Libraries http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/birndl-sigir2017/ CAIR’17: Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval https://sites.google.com/view/cair-ws ECOM’17: eCommerce http://sigir-ecom.weebly.com/ KG4IR’17: Knowledge Graphs and Semantics for Text Retrieval and Analysis https://kg4ir.github.io/ LIARR’17: Lucene for Information Access and Retrieval Research https://liarr2017.github.io/ Neu-IR’17: Neural Information Retrieval http://neu-ir.weebly.com/ OKBQA’17: Open Knowledge Base and Question Answering http://sigir2017.okbqa.org/ Tutorials on key topics in information retrieval http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/tutorials/ Statistical Significance Testing in Information Retrieval: Theory and Practice Candidate Selection for Large Scale Personalized Search and Recommender Systems A/B Testing at Scale: Accelerating Software Innovation Probabilistic Topic Models for Text Data Retrieval and Mining Neural Networks for Information Retrieval (NN4IR) Building Test Collections: An Interactive Guide for Students and Others Without Their Own Evaluation Conference Series From Design to Analysis: Conducting Controlled Laboratory Experiments with Users SIGIR 2017 Tutorial on Health Search (HS2017) ? A Full-day from Consumers to Clinicians An industry track, the Symposium on IR in Practice (SIRIP) An extensive social program http://sigir.org/sigir2017/program/social/ Cultural events for accompanying people http://sigir.org/sigir2017/attend/tourist-information/ Childcare service http://sigir.org/sigir2017/attend/childcare/ Registration http://sigir.org/sigir2017/attend/registration/ Registration for SIGIR'17 is now open. Early-bird registration is available until May 31, 2017. Important: please be sure to register now if you will need a visa to enter Japan. Further Information Please check the SIGIR'17 website for further information and regular updates, and follow us on Twitter (@SIGIR17) or Facebook for breaking announcements. http://sigir.org/sigir2017/ https://twitter.com/sigir17 https://www.facebook.com/sigir2017/ Inquiries: sigir2017-contact@nii.ac.jp Organization General chairs Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics Tetsuya Sakai, Waseda University Hideo Joho, University of Tsukuba Program chairs Hang Li, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab Arjen de Vries, Radboud University Ryen White, Microsoft Cortana Short paper chairs Hui Fang, University of Delaware Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University Demo chairs Gareth Jones, Dublin City University Takehiro Yamamoto, Kyoto University Best paper chairs Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland SIRIP chairs Sumio Fujita, Yahoo! JAPAN Vanessa Murdock, Microsoft Publicity/social chairs Yukino Baba, Kyoto University Harumi Murakami, Osaka City University Falk Scholer, RMIT University Tutorial chairs Fernando Diaz, Spotify Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University Doctoral consortium chairs Makoto P. Kato, Kyoto University Kira Radinsky, Technion Workshop chairs Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam Grace Hui Yang, Georgetown University Proceedings chairs Takuya Kida, Hokkaido University Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University Sponsorship chairs Tsuneaki Kato, The University of Tokyo Paraic Sheridan, Dublin City University 40th anniversary award chair Diane Kelly, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Treasurers Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics Hiroaki Ohshima, Kyoto University Local arrangements Yuka Egusa, National Institute for Educational Policy Research Emi Ishita, Kyushu University Masao Takaku, University of Tsukuba Student volunteer chair Atsushi Keyaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology -- Takehiro Yamamoto, Assistant Professor Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Email: tyamamot@dl.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp Tel: 075-753-4957 http://rerank-lab.org/