日本データベース学会のみなさま 大阪成蹊大学 杉山と申します。 アジア-太平洋地域を中心とした情報検索に関する国際会議、SIGIR-AP 2024では、 9月13日を締め切りとして、tutorial の proposal を募集しております。 ACM のテンプレートで4ページ以内の内容で投稿可能です。 主な予定は、次のとおりです。 - Proposal submission: September 13, 2024 - Proposal acceptance notification: September 30, 2024 - Tutorial overview summary due: October 7, 2024 - Tutorial day: December 9, 2024 以下、Call For Tutorials の詳細です。 https://www.sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2024/call-for-tutorials/ みなさまからの tutorial のご提案を、お待ちしております。 ----- The annual SIGIR-AP conference is an annual ACM-sponsored international forum that promotes and disseminates information retrieval research and development within the Asia-Pacific region. The 2nd ACM SIGIR-AP conference (SIGIR-AP 2024) will be held in Tokyo from the 9th to the 12th of December 2024. SIGIR-AP 2024 is looking for proposals for tutorials that explore topics relevant to information retrieval and its practical uses. Each tutorial should focus deeply on a single subject. For example, tutorials might cover well-established areas of information retrieval, introduce new applications of retrieval technologies, or provide updates on recent advances in related fields. [IMPORTANT DATES] Time zone: Anywhere On Earth (AOE) - Proposal submission: September 13, 2024 - Proposal acceptance notification: September 30, 2024 - Tutorial overview summary due: October 7, 2024 - Tutorial day: December 9, 2024 [SUBMISSION GUIDELINES] Submissions should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should include the following elements: - Title and length (either half-day (two 90-minutes sessions with break), or full day (four 90-minutes sessions with breaks)) of the tutorial. - Intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills required. - Detailed contact information of all presenters (and an indication of the main contact person). - Brief biography (max. 2 paragraphs) for each presenter, highlighting relevant experience in presenting tutorials, teaching grad classes, organizing summer schools, etc. The extended abstract (no longer than 4 pages) should include the following sections: - Motivation. - Objectives. - Relevance to the information retrieval community and reference to tutorials in the same area at SIGIR or related conferences (including WSDM, WWW, KDD, ACL, RecSys, ICML, etc.). - Format and detailed schedule. - Type of support materials to be supplied to attendees Tutorial proposals should be prepared in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the “sigconf” proceedings template). The submissions will be reviewed by a tutorial selection committee, and final decisions will be made at the SIGIR-AP Program Committee meeting. Proposals should be submitted in PDF through the EasyChair system (Tutorial track): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirap2024 The organizers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a four-page summary of the tutorial, to be included in the conference proceedings. [Tutorial Chairs] Kazunari Sugiyama, Osaka Seikei University, Japan Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan [Contact] For further information, please contact the SIGIR-AP 2024 Tutorial Co-chairs by email: sigirap-tutorial2024(a)easychair.org