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- 5.1 Gerard Salton Award
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5 Awards made by SIGIRIn addition to Best Paper Award(s), SIGIR provides the triennial Gerard Salton Award (to be awarded next in 2018), and funds JCDL’s Vannevar Bush Award jointly with SIGWEB. SIGIR continues working to put forth deserving nominees for the general ACM Awards. All SIGIR awards are documented on the SIGIR website. For 2015, we introduced a new Test of Time Award to recognize research that has had long lasting influence in our field. 5.1 Gerard Salton AwardThis award is presented every three years to an individual who has made "... significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval". It was established as the SIGIR Award in 1983 and renamed in 1997 in honor of Professor Gerard Salton, who is considered by many to be the person most responsible for the establishment, survival, and recognition of the field of IR. The Salton Award Committee is comprised of the available prior winners of the Salton Award, in consultation with the SIGIR Chair. At SIGIR 2015 the award was presented to Nicholas J. Belkin of Rutgers for “forty years of significant, sustained and continuing contributions to, and advocacy of, the study of information retrieval in the context of human information seeking. Of particular importance are his contributions to the study of user-system interaction, to the understanding of human information seeking tasks and strategies, and to the twin challenges of designing systems which accommodate these tasks and strategies, and of evaluating such systems in the context of these tasks and strategies.” 5.2 Test of Time AwardIn 2015, SIGIR introduced a new Test of Time Award. The SIGIR Test of Time Award recognizes research that has had long-lasting influence, including impact on a subarea of information retrieval research, across subareas of information retrieval research, and outside of the information retrieval research community (e.g. non-information retrieval research or industry). The winning paper is selected from the set of full papers presented at the main SIGIR conference 10-12 years before. At SIGIR 2015 the award was presented to Susan Dumais, Edward Cutrell, JJ Cadiz, Gavin Jancke, Raman Sarin, and Daniel C. Robbins for their SIGIR 2003 paper “Stuff I’ve seen: a system for personal information retrieval and re-use”. 5.3 Vannevar Bush Best Paper AwardAlong with SIGWEB, SIGIR jointly funds the Vannevar Bush award honoring the best paper at the Joint Conference for Digital Libraries. 5.4 SIGIR Best Paper AwardsThe SIGIR 2015 conference Best Paper Award was presented to Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Nicola Tonellotto and Rossano Venturini for their paper “QuickScorer: A Fast Algorithm to Rank Documents with Additive Ensembles of Regression Trees” that “develops a novel representation of binary regression trees based on bitvectors and an algorithm to perform a fast interleaved traversal of the trees in a cache-aware fashion, and demonstrates significant efficiency gains on publically available learning-to-rank data sets with various models that use ensembles of regression trees.” SIGIR awards a parallel Best Student Paper Award if the Best Paper award is not given to a student paper. At SIGIR 2015 the award went to Eugene Kharitonov, Aleksandr Vorobev, Craig Macdonald, Pavel Serdyukov, and Iadh Ounis for their paper “Sequential Testing for Early Stopping of Online Experiments” that “extends sequential statistical testing procedures by adjusting stopping thresholds based on observed log data, and demonstrates how this significantly reduce the time required for online A/B and interleaving experiments.” 6 CommunicationsThe SIGIR Website provides timely information about SIGIR-sponsored conferences, “in cooperation” conferences, and SIGIR activities, as well as Business Meeting slides, the annual report, and other information about how SIGIR operates and SIGIR’s history. In addition to providing information about the organization, the SIGIR website also hosts the SIGIR Forum and SIG-IRList sites. Our Information Director, Krisztian Balog, maintains the site. During the past year, he updated the site with a new look and new content management software. In conjunction with the Web site, SIGIR operates a Twitter feed and a maintains a Facebook page, both managed by our Social Media Director. During the last year, the SIGIR Forum was co-edited by Craig Macdonald and Ben Carterette. The Forum is published twice a year, covering IR conferences, workshops and symposia. It includes in-depth essays based on the Salton Award Lecture and other keynote addresses, as well as short papers on current research trends. The Forum appears both online (http://www.acm.org/sigir/forum/) and in paper. The SIG-IRList is a SIGIR-sponsored electronic newsletter (http://www.acm.org/sigir/sigirlist/), edited by Claudia Huff. The SIG-IRList provides a regular newsletter of IR information and nicely compliments the archival publication SIGIR Forum. The SIG-IRList contains job announcements, notices of publications, conferences, workshops, calls for participation, and project announcements.
SIGIR has been collecting archive publications from the early days of the Information Retrieval field. Most of the information is unavailable anywhere online, so this archive provides new access to the historical information. A description of the gathered information is available at http://sigir.org/resources/museum. It continues to be updated with new (old) material on an on-going basis, as the information is found and can be scanned. SIGIR is exploring ways to make this information a more valuable resource for the community. Directory: binaries -> content -> assets -> sigs -> volunteer resources -> sig-governing-board-annual-reports -> fy-16-annual-report assets -> Members Members of the Council (from June 30th, 2015) assets -> Acm education Board Annual Report for fy 16 October 2016 Contents assets -> 1. basic information 1 List of Award Subcommittee Members and Terms of Office assets -> Basic Information Members of the Board assets -> Annual Report of the Publications Board For the Period July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011 assets -> Annual Report of the Publications Board fy-16-annual-report -> Annual Report of the sig governing Board For the period 1-July-15 through 30-June-16 Submitted by: Patrick Madden September 1, 2016 sig-governing-board-annual-reports -> Sigaccess fy’17 Annual Report Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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