ICTIR 2017 - 2017 ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval

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, new or improved models of relevance, ranking, representation, information needs, user information access and evaluation. A foundation is a scientific result that others can build upon and use for their own research. This might be a theoretical result, or a reproducible experimental result. The need for formal frameworks is universal across the many applications of information retrieval. In addition to foundational research into established approaches in IR, the conference encourages the submission of papers that are attempting to define new tasks, develop new search paradigms, or apply methods from related disciplines, such as natural language processing, machine learning, statistics, or quantum mechanics. Large-scale experimental studies are not required for ICTIR papers, although some evidence in support of new theories is expected. However, reproducibility of research results is encouraged (e.g., through sharing the data sets and/or software implementations).