Important Dates

  • Tutorial submissions due: May 4, 2020
  • Tutorials notifications: May 25, 2020
  • The ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR) provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of research related but not limited to IR Theory and Practice, User Aspects, IR System Architectures and Scalability, Content Representation and Processing, Evaluation, Machine Learning for IR, IR Applications, etc. The conference explicitly welcomes tutorials on core IR and on connections between IR and its neighboring disciplines, especially on the topic listed in the call for papers.

    Submissions should include tutorial details as well as an extended abstract specifying:

  • The title and length of the tutorial
  • Prerequisite knowledge or skills required
  • Complete contact information for the organizers along with their brief biography
  • Motivation
  • Objectives
  • The format and the detailed schedule of the tutorial
  • Relevance to the ICTIR community
  • Details of materials to be supplied to attendees