SIGIR 2024: Call for Full Papers

The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval will be held in-person from July 14th to 18th, 2024 in Washington D.C., USA.

SIGIR is the major international forum for presenting new research results and demonstrating new systems and techniques in Information Retrieval (IR).

Important Dates for Full Papers

Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

• Full paper abstracts due: January 18, 2024
• Full papers due: January 25, 2024
• Full paper notifications: March 25, 2024

Full paper authors are required to submit an abstract by midnight January 18, 2024 AoE. Paper submission (deadline: midnight January 25, 2024 AoE) is not possible without a submitted abstract.

Submission Guidelines

• Full research papers must describe original work that has not been previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not simultaneously submitted or currently under review in another journal or conference (including the other tracks of SIGIR 2024).
• Submissions must be in English, in PDF format, and be at most 9 pages (including figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any content except references) in length, with unrestricted space for references, in the current ACM two-column conference format.
• Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use “sigconf” proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word).
• ACM’s CCS concepts and keywords are required for review.
• For LaTeX, the following should be used:
  \documentclass[sigconf,natbib=true,anonymous=true]{acmart}
• Submissions must be anonymous and should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigir24
• At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and the author(s) or their delegate(s) must present the work at the conference in person.
• See this brief checklist to strengthen an IR paper for authors and reviewers.

Anonymity and Pre-Print/ArXiv Policy

The full paper review process is double-blind. Authors are required to take all reasonable steps to preserve the anonymity of their submission. The submission must not include author information; citations or discussion of your own prior work should be written up in third person form. It is acceptable to refer to companies or organizations that provided datasets, hosted experiments or deployed solutions if reviewers can not infer that the authors are currently affiliated with these organizations. You can submit to SIGIR 2024 papers that you have posted to pre-print/archival platforms (e.g. arXiv), or plan to post in the future, after submission. However, your paper must conform to the SIGIR 2024 Pre-Print/ArXiv Policy. Breaking anonymity or pre-print/ArXiv policy puts the submission at risk of being desk rejected.

Authorship Policy

Authors should carefully go through ACM’s authorship policy before submitting a paper. Please ensure that all authors are clearly identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To support the identification of reviewers with conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified at abstract submission time. No changes to authorship will be permitted for the camera-ready submission under any circumstance or after the abstract submission deadline. So please, make sure you have them listed correctly at submission time.

Desk Rejection Policy

Submissions that violate the anonymity, pre-print policy, length, or formatting requirements, or are determined to violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty, including plagiarism, author misrepresentation, falsification, etc., are subject to desk rejection by the chairs. Any of the following may result in desk rejection:

• Figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgements, or any other content after page 9 of the submission.
• Formatting not in line with the guidelines provided above.
• Authors or authors’ institutional affiliations clearly named or easily discoverable.
• Links to source code repositories that reveal author identities, or extended versions of the current paper. It is recommended to hold these for the final published version and submit source code for artifact review.
• Change of authors after the abstract submission deadline.
• Content that has been determined to have been copied from other sources.
• Any form of academic fraud or dishonesty.
• Lack of topical fit for SIGIR.

Relevant Areas

Relevant areas include:

• Search and Ranking
• System, Efficiency and Scalability
• Recommender Systems
• Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for IR
• Conversational IR
• Humans and Interfaces
• Evaluation
• Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Explainability (FATE) in IR
• Multi Modal IR
• Domain-specific Applications
• Other IR Topics

Contact

For any questions about full paper submissions you may contact the Program Chairs by email to sigir24-fullpaperchairs@easychair.org.