ACM SIGIR Business Mtg Aug 14 2002 SIGIR

ACM: SIGIR Business Mtg Aug 14, 2002

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

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

SIGIR Extended Family n n n n 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 n Thanks to Fazli Can, who stepped down after many years as the Forum editor.

2001 General Report n Annual Report available online at: n n n 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

SIGIR by the Numbers

Student Travel Awards, 2002 n $20, 400 awarded (up from $13, 350) n n n $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)

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

SIGIR Financial Outlook: The Bad News n n Declining sales of SIGIR proceedings Declining interest income Increasing ACM costs Increasing student travel & other costs n n A good thing, but how do we pay for it? Unpredictable conference income n Exec Committee has had little control

SIGIR Financial Outlook: Assessment SIGIR is healthy financially, but… n Dues cover less than half our expenses n We rely on conference profits to fund services (e. g. , student travel, awards, …) n n Conference profits (and losses) vary greatly Options: n n n Exec Committee assumes greater control over conference finances Raise membership dues Raise publication prices

SIGIR Conferences n SIGIR-Sponsored ($$$): n n 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: n n RCDL 2001 (Russian Conference on Digital Libraries) AH 2002 (Intnl Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia) CIA 2002 (Collaborative Information Agents) HLT 2002 (Human Language Technologies)

CIKM’ 2001, ’ 2002, ‘ 2003 n 2001 General Chair: Carlton Pu n n 2002 General Chair: Charles Nicholas n n n Program Co-Chairs: David Grossman, Ling Liu 60 papers, 10 industry papers, 15 posters Profitable Program Co-Chairs: David Grossman, Konstantinos Kalpakis Date: Nov 4 -9, Mc. Lean VA 2003 General Chair: Don Kraft n Date: Nov. 4 -9 or 11 -16, New Orleans LA

JCDL’ 2001 and ’ 2002 n JCDL’ 2001: First Joint Conf on Digital Libraries n n 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 n n n 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 n Portland OR, July 2002, ? ? preliminaries

SIGIR Conferences … past, present, and future n n 2001: New Orleans, USA (D. Kraft) 2002: Tampere, Finland (K. Jarvelin) n n n 25 th 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)

SIGIR’ 01 … a retrospective n n General Chair: Don Kraft, New Orleans, LA USA Successful n n 360 conference participants, 217 workshops, 153 tutorials Profitable Best Paper, Best Student Paper awards Innovations: n n Invited Keynotes from IR-related Disciplines Area Chairs Mentoring (David D. Lewis, chair; 16 papers mentored) Sept 9 -12 …

SIGIR’ 02 … you are there n General Chair: Kal Jarvelin n n Program Chairs: Micheline Beaulieu, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Sung Hyon Myaeng Things of Note: n Mentoring n n n 25 th SIGIR Meeting n n Peter Anick, chair; 16 papers mentored Edie Rasmussen, chair for 2003 CD w/ 25 years of proceedings Pictorial history Bibliometrics analysis Hope you’re having fun …

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

SIGIR’ 04 – Sheffield, UK n General Chair: Mark Sanderson

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

SIGIR’ 06 – Seattle, USA n General Chair: Efthimis Efthimidias

SIGIR Selection and Schedule n Traditional: n n Alternate between Europe – North America New: n n 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

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

Proceedings/Forum Online n SIGIR Conf Proceedings and Forum Online n n n 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

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

SIGIR Forum n n n Editors: Mark Sanderson and Peter Anick (with help from outgoing editor Fazli Can) Online - http: //www. acm. org/sigs/sigir/forum/ Upcoming content: n n n SIGIR, CIKM, DL workshop overviews TREC Track overviews Ph. D Dissertation abstracts Invited talks Community and SIGIR announcements Your suggestions … Better yet, your content

SIG-IRList n n n 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/sigirlist/

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

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

Volunteers Needed n n Membership coordinator SIGIR 2003 n n SIGIR EC n n Best papers committee chair Elections early 2003 See any of us after meeting, or email sigir-ec@acm. org

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

SIGIR@25: 25 Years of SIGIR Meetings n n n CDs: 25 years of Proceedings Pictorial history Bibliometrics analysis

SIGIR: 1978 -1989 n n n 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. Mc. Gill, (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)

SIGIR: 1990 -2002 n n n n 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)