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ACM:SIGIR Business Mtg

ACM:SIGIR Business Mtg. Aug 14, 2002. SIGIR 2002 Business Mtg. Introductions Reports (General, Financial, Membership) Conferences (CIKM, DL, SIGIR) New member initiatives and directions Other issues, questions SIGIR @ 25 … some special events. SIGIR Officers. Chair: Susan Dumais

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ACM:SIGIR Business Mtg

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  1. ACM:SIGIR Business Mtg Aug 14, 2002

  2. SIGIR 2002 Business Mtg • Introductions • Reports (General, Financial, Membership) • Conferences (CIKM, DL, SIGIR) • New member initiatives and directions • Other issues, questions • SIGIR @ 25 … some special events

  3. SIGIR Officers • Chair: Susan Dumais • Vice-Chair: Susan Gauch • Secretary: Liz Liddy • Treasurer: Jamie Callan • sigir-ec@acm.org • http://www.acm.org/sigir

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. SIGIR by the Numbers

  7. 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)

  8. SIGIR Financial Outlook: The Good News • Recent increase in membership • Is it sustainable? • Growth in SIGIR Proceedings Package • But we don’t make money on it • Conferences generally profitable • Usually small profits, but highly variable • Large fund balance

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. SIGIR Conferences • SIGIR-Sponsored ($$$): • SIGIR’01-SIGIR’05 • CIKM’01-’03 (Nov) w/ SIGMIS • JCDL’01 (Jun 01), JCDL’02 (Jul 02) w/ SIGWEB and IEEE’s 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)

  12. CIKM’2001, ’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

  13. JCDL’2001 and ’2002 • JCDL’2001: First Joint Conf on Digital Libraries • Merger of ACM and IEEE DL Conferences … many thanks to the Steering Committee, especially Nick Belkin (SIGIR’s 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 • JCDL’2002, General Chair: Bill Hersh • Portland OR, July 2002, ?? preliminaries

  14. 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)

  15. SIGIR’01 … 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 …

  16. SIGIR’02 … 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 you’re having fun …

  17. SIGIR’03 – Toronto, CANADA • General Chair: Charlie Clarke • Dates: July 28 – Aug 1, 2003

  18. SIGIR’04 – Sheffield, UK • General Chair: Mark Sanderson

  19. SIGIR’05 – Salvador, BRAZIL • General Chairs: Nivio Ziviani and Ricardo Baeza-Yates

  20. SIGIR’06 – Seattle, USA • General Chair: Efthimis Efthimidias

  21. SIGIR Selection and Schedule • Traditional: • Alternate between Europe – North America • New: • 5-year cycle: NA–Europe–NA–Europe-Other • Begin Other w/ 2005, Salvador Brazil • NA 2006, Seattle • Europe 2007, … get your proposals ready for next year

  22. New Directions • Digitizing SIGIR: Conference Proceedings and Forum back issues scanned • Proceedings Package • SIGIR Forum … continues online • SIG-IRList … electronic newsletter • ACM:TOIS • SIGIR Doctoral Consortium

  23. 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 ACM:DL, SIGMOD Anthology • New SIGIR@25 CDs

  24. SIGIR Proceedings Package • Includes CIKM and JCDL proceedings • Cost: $30 / year (“break even”) • An excellent deal for members 2000 2001 2002

  25. 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

  26. 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/

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

  28. Doctoral Consortium –Trial Run at SIGIR’04 • Invitational, senior PhD students • Details to be determined: • When? (Before, same day as tutorials) • How? (Participants only, others?) • Size? (<10 students) • Comments welcome • Contact: David Harper

  29. 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@acm.org

  30. Audience Participation:What Do You Like (Or Not)? • Question … • Issues … • Suggestions … • See any of us after meeting, or email sigir-ec@acm.org • … SIGIR@25

  31. SIGIR@25: 25 Years of SIGIR Meetings • CDs: 25 years of Proceedings • Pictorial history • Bibliometrics analysis

  32. 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)

  33. 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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