ACM:SIGIR Business Mtg

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ACMSIGIR Business Mtg

• Aug 14, 2002

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SIGIR 2002 Business Mtg

• Introductions
• Reports (General, Financial, Membership)
• Conferences (CIKM, DL, SIGIR)
• New member initiatives and directions
• Other issues, questions
• SIGIR _at_ 25 some special events

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SIGIR Officers

• Chair Susan Dumais
• Vice-Chair Susan Gauch
• Secretary Liz Liddy
• Treasurer Jamie Callan
• sigir-ec_at_acm.org
• http//www.acm.org/sigir

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SIGIR Extended Family

• Chair Susan Dumais
• Vice-Chair Susan Gauch
• Secretary Liz Liddy
• Treasurer Jamie Callan
• Regional Reps David Harper Ross Wilkinson
• Information Officer Eric Brown
• SIGIR Forum Eds Mark Sanderson Peter Anick
• Thanks to Fazli Can, who stepped down after many
  years as the Forum editor.

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2001 General Report

• Annual Report available online at
• http//www.acm.org/sigir/
• Strong quality and good international
  participation in conferences and publications
• Continue to work on membership benefits, student
  involvement, international appeal, relevance to
  industrial members

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SIGIR by the Numbers
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Student Travel Awards, 2002

• 20,400 awarded (up from 13,350)
• 1,100 IBM, remainder SIGIR
• 26 students (up from 17 last year)
• North America (11)
• Europe / Middle East (8)
• Australia / Asia (6)
• South America (1)

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SIGIR Financial Outlook The Good News

• Recent increase in membership
• Is it sustainable?
• Growth in SIGIR Proceedings Package
• But we dont make money on it
• Conferences generally profitable
• Usually small profits, but highly variable
• Large fund balance

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SIGIR Financial Outlook The Bad News

• Declining sales of SIGIR proceedings
• Declining interest income
• Increasing ACM costs
• Increasing student travel other costs
• A good thing, but how do we pay for it?
• Unpredictable conference income
• Exec Committee has had little control

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SIGIR Financial Outlook Assessment

• SIGIR is healthy financially, but
• Dues cover less than half our expenses
• We rely on conference profits to fund services
  (e.g., student travel, awards, )
• Conference profits (and losses) vary greatly
• Options
• Exec Committee assumes greater control over
  conference finances
• Raise membership dues
• Raise publication prices

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SIGIR Conferences

• SIGIR-Sponsored ()
• SIGIR01-SIGIR05
• CIKM01-03 (Nov) w/ SIGMIS
• JCDL01 (Jun 01), JCDL02 (Jul 02) w/ SIGWEB and
  IEEEs TCDL
• In Cooperation
• RCDL 2001 (Russian Conference on Digital
  Libraries)
• AH 2002 (Intnl Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia)
• CIA 2002 (Collaborative Information Agents)
• HLT 2002 (Human Language Technologies)

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CIKM2001, 2002, 2003

• 2001 General Chair Carlton Pu
• Program Co-Chairs David Grossman, Ling Liu
• 60 papers, 10 industry papers, 15 posters
• Profitable
• 2002 General Chair Charles Nicholas
• Program Co-Chairs David Grossman, Konstantinos
  Kalpakis
• Date Nov 4-9, McLean VA
• 2003 General Chair Don Kraft
• Date Nov. 4-9 or 11-16, New Orleans LA

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JCDL2001 and 2002

• JCDL2001 First Joint Conf on Digital Libraries
• Merger of ACM and IEEE DL Conferences many
  thanks to the Steering Committee, especially Nick
  Belkin (SIGIRs rep), in pulling off the merger
  and successful new conference
• General Chair Ed Fox
• Virginia USA, June 2001
• Extremely successful 425 attendees!!!
• 40 papers, 36 short papers, 9 panels, 10 demos,
  16 posters, 6 tutorials, 3 workshops, 3 keynotes
• Small profit
• JCDL2002, General Chair Bill Hersh
• Portland OR, July 2002, ?? preliminaries

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SIGIR Conferences past, present, and future

• 2001 New Orleans, USA (D. Kraft)
• 2002 Tampere, Finland (K. Jarvelin)
• 25th anniversary
• 2003 Toronto, Canada (C. Clarke)
• 2004 Sheffield, UK (M. Sanderson)
• 2005 Salvador, Brazil (N. Ziviani, R.
  Baeza-Yates)
• 2006 Seattle, WA USA (E. Ethimidias)

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SIGIR01 a retrospective

• General Chair Don Kraft, New Orleans, LA USA
• Successful
• 360 conference participants, 217 workshops, 153
  tutorials
• Profitable
• Best Paper, Best Student Paper awards
• Innovations
• Invited Keynotes from IR-related Disciplines
• Area Chairs
• Mentoring (David D. Lewis, chair 16 papers
  mentored)
• Sept 9-12

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SIGIR02 you are there

• General Chair Kal Jarvelin
• Program Chairs Micheline Beaulieu, Ricardo
  Baeza-Yates, Sung Hyon Myaeng
• Things of Note
• Mentoring
• Peter Anick, chair 16 papers mentored
• Edie Rasmussen, chair for 2003
• 25th SIGIR Meeting
• CD w/ 25 years of proceedings
• Pictorial history
• Bibliometrics analysis
• Hope youre having fun

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SIGIR03 Toronto, CANADA

• General Chair Charlie Clarke
• Dates July 28 Aug 1, 2003

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SIGIR04 Sheffield, UK

• General Chair Mark Sanderson

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SIGIR05 Salvador, BRAZIL

• General Chairs Nivio Ziviani and Ricardo
  Baeza-Yates

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SIGIR06 Seattle, USA

• General Chair Efthimis Efthimidias

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SIGIR Selection and Schedule

• Traditional
• Alternate between Europe North America
• New
• 5-year cycle NAEuropeNAEurope-Other
• Begin Other w/ 2005, Salvador Brazil
• NA 2006, Seattle
• Europe 2007, get your proposals ready for next
  year

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New Directions

• Digitizing SIGIR Conference Proceedings and
  Forum back issues scanned
• Proceedings Package
• SIGIR Forum continues online
• SIG-IRList electronic newsletter
• ACMTOIS
• SIGIR Doctoral Consortium

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Proceedings/Forum Online

• SIGIR Conf Proceedings and Forum Online
• SIGIR Proceedings 1978-present scanned
• SIGIR Forum 1975-present scanned some missing
  issues 1965-1975
• Special thanks to Stephen Robertson, Donna
  Harman, Bruce Croft, Dagobert Soergel, Ernst
  Schuegraf, and Jack Minker for loan of materials
• Included in the ACMDL, SIGMOD Anthology
• New SIGIR_at_25 CDs

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SIGIR Proceedings Package

• Includes CIKM and JCDL proceedings
• Cost 30 / year
• (break even)
• An excellent deal
  for members

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SIGIR Forum

• Editors Mark Sanderson and Peter Anick (with
  help from outgoing editor Fazli Can)
• Online - http//www.acm.org/sigs/sigir/forum/
• Upcoming content
• SIGIR, CIKM, DL workshop overviews
• TREC Track overviews
• PhD Dissertation abstracts
• Invited talks
• Community and SIGIR announcements
• Your suggestions Better yet, your content

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SIG-IRList

• Editors Mark Sanderson and Asaad Alberair (Univ
  Sheffield)
• Electronic newsletter of IR information.
  SIG-IRList contains job announcements, notices of
  publications, conferences, workshops, calls for
  participation, and project announcements.
• http//www.acm.org/sigir/sigirlist/

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ACM TOIS

• ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
• Loose affiliation w/ SIGIR
• Outgoing editor Bruce Croft
• New editor Gary Marchionini

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Doctoral Consortium Trial Run at SIGIR04

• Invitational, senior PhD students
• Details to be determined
• When? (Before, same day as tutorials)
• How? (Participants only, others?)
• Size? (
• Comments welcome
• Contact David Harper

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Volunteers Needed

• Membership coordinator
• SIGIR 2003
• Best papers committee chair
• SIGIR EC
• Elections early 2003
• See any of us after meeting, or email
  sigir-ec_at_acm.org

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Audience ParticipationWhat Do You Like (Or Not)?

• Question
• Issues
• Suggestions
• See any of us after meeting, or email
  sigir-ec_at_acm.org
• SIGIR_at_25

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SIGIR_at_25 25 Years of SIGIR Meetings

• CDs 25 years of Proceedings
• Pictorial history
• Bibliometrics analysis

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SIGIR 1978-1989

• 1978, Rochester, Robert Dattola, (James Iverson,
  P. Bruce Berra, R. Dattola)
• 1979, Dallas, Robert Korfhag, (Christine Borgman)
• 1980, Cambridge UK, C.J. van Rijsbergen (Robert
  Oddy, Stephen Robertson, C.J. van Rijsbergen)
• 1981, Berkeley, William Cooper, (Jess Herr)
• 1982, Berlin, Hans-Jochen Schneider and Gerard
  Salton, (Hans-Jochen Schneider and Gerard Salton)
• 1983, Washington, Michael J. McGill, (Matthew
  Koll)
• 1984, Cambridge UK, Steven Pollitt, (C.J. van
  Rijsbergen)
• 1985, Montreal, Jean Tague, (Vijay Raghavan)
• 1986, Pisa, Luigi Rossi Bernardi, (Fausto
  Rabitti)
• 1987, New Orleans, Don Kraft, (Clement Yu C.J.
  van Rijsbergen)
• 1988, Grenoble, Yves Chiaramella, (E. Chouraqui,
  Gerard Salton)
• 1989, Cambridge USA, Bruce Croft, (Nick Belkin,
  C.J. van Rijsbergen)

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SIGIR 1990-2002

• 1990, Brussels, Jean-Luc Vidick, (Leo Egghe,
  Gerard Salton)
• 1991, Chicago, Abraham Bookstein, (Y.
  Chiaramella, G. Salton, V. Raghavan)
• 1992, Copenhagen, Peter Ingwersen, (Nick Belkin,
  Annelise Mark Pejtersen)
• 1993, Pittsburgh, Edie Rasmussen, (Robert
  Korfage, Peter Willett)
• 1994, Dublin, Alan Smeaton, (Bruce Croft, C.J.
  van Rijsbergen)
• 1995, Seattle, Raya Fidel, (Ed Fox, Peter
  Ingwersen)
• 1996, Zurich, Hans-Peter Frei, (P. Schauble, D.
  Harman, R. Wilkinson)
• 1997, Philadelphia, Ellen Voorhees, (N. Belkin,
  Peter Willett, Desai Narasimhulu)
• 1998, Melbourne, Alistair Moffat and Justin
  Zobel, (Ross Wilkinson, Bruce Croft, C.J. van
  Rijsbergen)
• 1999, Berkeley, Fred Gey, (Marti Hearst, Richard
  Tong)
• 2000, Athens, E. J. Yannakoudakis, (N. Belkin,
  Mun-Kew Leong, P. Ingwersen)
• 2001, New Orleans, Don Kraft, (Bruce Croft, David
  Harper, Justin Zobel)
• 2002, Tampere, Kal Jarvelin, (Michline Beaulieu,
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Sun Hyon Myaeng)

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• 1978, Rochester, Robert Dattola, (James Iverson,
  P. Bruce Berra, Robert Dattola)
• 1979, Dallas, Robert Korfhag, (Christine Borgman)
• 1980, Cambridge UK, C.J. van Rijsbergen (Robert
  Oddy, Stephen Robertson, C.J. van Rijsbergen)
• 1981, Berkeley, William Cooper, (Jess Herr)
• 1982, Berlin, Hans-Jochen Schneider and Gerard
  Salton, (Hans-Jochen Schneider and Gerard Salton)
• 1983, Washington, Michael J. McGill, (Matthew
  Koll)
• 1984, Cambridge UK, Steven Pollitt, (C.J. van
  Rijsbergen)
• 1985, Montreal, Jean Tague, (Vijay Raghavan)
• 1986, Pisa, Luigi Rossi Bernardi, (Fausto
  Rabitti)
• 1987, New Orleans, Don Kraft, (Clement Yu C.J.
  van Rijsbergen)
• 1988, Grenoble, Yves Chiaramella, (E. Chouraqui,
  Gerard Salton)
• 1989, Cambridge USA, Bruce Croft, (Nick Belkin,
  C.J. van Rijsbergen)
• 1990, Brussels, Jean-Luc Vidick, (Leo Egghe,
  Gerard Salton)
• 1991, Chicago, Abraham Bookstein, (Yves
  Chiaramella, Gerard Salton, Vijay Raghavan)
• 1992, Copenhagen, Peter Ingwersen, (Nick Belkin,
  Annelise Mark Pejtersen)
• 1993, Pittsburgh, Edie Rasmussen, (Robert
  Korfage, Peter Willett)
• 1994, Dublin, Alan Smeaton, (Bruce Croft, C.J.
  van Rijsbergen)
• 1995, Seattle, Raya Fidel, (Ed Fox, Peter
  Ingwersen)
• 1996, Zurich, Hans-Peter Frei, (Peter Schauble,
  Donna Harman, Ross Wilkinson)