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- 2 Finances
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- 4.2 International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval
- 4.3 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
- 4.3 Co-sponsored Conferences
- 4.4 In-cooperation Conferences
- 4.5 Conferences and Events Supported as “Friends”
1. OverviewThe SIGIR Executive Committee consists of five elected officers, elected for a three-year term. During FY’16 the committee consisted of Charles Clarke (Chair), Yoelle Maarek (Vice Chair), Diane Kelly (Treasurer), Jaap Kamps (Secretary) and James Allan (Past Chair). The term of the current Executive Committee ended on June 30, 2016. Over the past year, elections were held for a new committee, with the following outcome:
Charles Clarke continues on the committee as Past Chair. SIGIR thanks the outgoing members of the Executive Committee for their service. SIGIR currently solely sponsors three conferences (SIGIR, ICTIR, and CHIIR) and co-sponsors three conferences (CIKM, WSDM, and JCDL). Both ICTIR (the ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of IR) and CHIIR (the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval) are new, with the first occurrence of ICTIR happening in September 2015 and the first occurrence of CHIIR happening in March 2016. Our SIGIR Forum newsletter is published twice a year (June and December). We also maintain a website, mailing list, Facebook page, and Twitter feed. SIGIR offers its over 800 members the following benefits: SIGIR Forum (paper & online); reduced conference registration fees to sponsored and “in cooperation” conferences; access to the ACM Digital Library, in particular SIGIR, CIKM, JCDL, and WSDM conference proceedings. In addition, we devote a substantial portion of our surplus funds to supporting student travel to our conferences, as well as student events at our conferences. 2 FinancesThe SIG’s reserves of approximately $1.5 million remain greater than one times the annual conference expenditure of approximately $500K. The Executive Committee attempts to run a “break even” budget in which SIGIR neither gains nor loses much money. To maintain this steady-state, profits from the digital library and conferences are used to fund student travel to our conferences, particularly for students with accepted papers. 3 Volunteers In addition to the elected officers, SIGIR is served by a large community of volunteers, including some with named roles: Forum Editor, June edition: Craig MacDonald Forum Editor, December edition: Ben Carterette SIG-IRList Editor: Claudia Huff Awards Chair: Fernando Diaz Information Director: Krisztian Balog Social Media Director: Guido Zuccon Student Travel Awards Chair: Jamie Auguello JCDL Liaison: Edie Rasmussen CIKM Liaison: Jimmy Lin WSDM Liaison: Ricardo Baeza-Yates SIGIR thanks all of our volunteers for their work on behalf of the IR community during the last year.
4.1 SIGIR Main ConferenceOur main conference is the Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. SIGIR 2015 was held in Santiago, Chile, August 9-13. SIGIR 2016 will be held in Pisa, Italy, July 17-21; SIGIR 2017 will be held in Tokyo, Japan; SIGIR 2018 will be held in Ann Arbour, Michigan; and SIGIR 2019 will be held in Paris France. Our annual business meeting is held at the conference, where major announcements are officially made and feedback from the community is heard. Preliminary expressions of interest will be presented at the 2015 conference for SIGIR 2019, which will be held in Europe, Africa, or the Middle East. Interested groups will be asked to prepare formal bid documentation to be reviewed by the Executive Committee, following the ACM protocol. The bid process is documented at http://sigir.org/bid.html. 4.2 International Conference on the Theory of Information RetrievalIn early 2014, we officially welcomed the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) into the family of conferences we sponsor and co-sponsor. The first SIGIR-sponsored ACM ICTIR was held at Northampton, Massachusetts in September 2015, with James Allan and Bruce Croft as the General Chairs. ICTIR 2016 will be held at the University of Delaware with Ben Carterette and Hui Fang as General Chairs. 4.3 Conference on Human Information Interaction and RetrievalThe first ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) was held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 13-17, 2016 with Diane Kelly and Rob Capra as General Chairs. CHIIR 2017 will be held in Oslo, Norway, March 7-11, 2017 with Nils Pharo and Ragnar Nordlie as General Chairs. 4.3 Co-sponsored ConferencesSIGIR also co-sponsors three other ACM conferences: CIKM, JCDL, and WSDM. JCDL 2015 was held in Knoxville in June; JCDL 2016 will be held in Newark, New Jersey. CIKM 2015 was was held in Melbourne, Australia in October 2015; CIKM 2016 will be held in Indianapolis. WSDM 2016 was held in San Francisco in February 2016; WSDM 2017 will be held in Cambridge England. 4.4 In-cooperation ConferencesIn addition to the four conferences that SIGIR sponsors or co-sponsors, we “cooperate” with several other IR-related conferences but have no financial stake in them. These conferences complement the technical focus of our own conferences. As a cooperating society, SIGIR members obtain reduced registration fees and other member benefits at these conferences. Current conferences we are regularly “in cooperation” with include the Australiasian Document Computing Symposium, the Asia Information Retrieval Society Conference, and the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. 4.5 Conferences and Events Supported as “Friends”SIGIR offers a limited amount funding (up to $5,000) to support events related to SIGIR’s mission (our “friends”). Such events include small workshops and regional events directly related to information retrieval or of strong interest to the SIGIR community. For more information see http://sigir.org/general-information/funding-for-sigir-related-events/. 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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