As of 31. August 2020:
Due to the COVID-19 situation,
the conference will entirely be held online.
Since a physical meeting is not possible this year, we will be using a virtual space from
gather.town
to make the conference a fun experience and not to miss out on the serendipity of running into friends and meeting strangers at the conference.
Theory ≠ Math
– It is about generalizable observations
About ICTIR
The ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of research related to the foundational aspects of Information Retrieval (IR), including, for example, human search
processes; search and recommendation; learning and optimization for IR; language and representations for IR; sensory information related to IR; artificial intelligence, ethics and responsibility in information retrieval.
The conference explicitly welcomes papers on core IR and any paper on connections between IR and its neighboring disciplines. We welcome experimental and industrial papers that validate approaches from the lens of practical applicability.
Such papers should, apart from validating the practical applicability of an existing approach, provide a clear message to the community as to which aspects need further (theoretical) investigation, based on the experimental findings.
Contributions could be:
- Theoretical papers that model various phenomena related to IR, and/or between concepts, models and theories;
- Conceptual papers that explore key concepts, new paradigms and new ways of thinking about problems in IR;
- Behavioral papers that explore the behavior of IR algorithms (why and how an algorithm works);
- Papers presenting preliminary work on exciting new ideas or approaches;
- Papers describing failed (but plausible!) approaches along with athorough analysis of what happened;
- Papers studying theory in experimental or industrial settings; or,
- Other papers that address foundational aspects of IR.
