Connectionists: SIGIR Call for Industry Track speaker proposals (SIRIP 2021)

[Rishabh Mehrotra]

Digital version of the call:
https://sigir.org/sigir2021/call-for-sirip-2021-industry-track/

tl;dr: 2 page speaker proposals, due April 9 AOE

The SIGIR Symposium on IR in Practice (SIRIP), formally known as the SIGIR
Industry Track, provides an opportunity for researchers, engineers,
practitioners, analysts and consumers to meet and discuss the latest
related IR technologies as deployed in companies, big and small, and to
achieve knowledge transfer across the boundary between academia and
industry. SIRIP 2021 will be held as part of ACM SIGIR 2021 which will take
place on July 11-15, 2021.

*Important Dates*

   - Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
   - Talk proposal due: Fri, Apr 9, 2021 23:59 AOE
   - Notifications : Wed, Apr 28, 2021
   - Camera ready due date: Wed, May 5, 2021

Submissions must contain author details and should be submitted
electronically via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=sigir2021

*Submission Guidelines*
We solicit position papers & speaker proposals for SIRIP talks around the
following categories:

   - Innovative approaches used in deployed systems and products. We also
   encourage presentations from small companies, especially startups or
   spin-offs from either a university project or a large company. Papers
   discussing domain specific challenges are also welcome.
   - Position papers on the current and future state of IR in practice, and
   the role IR could play in shaping the next generation of information access
   systems. For example:
      - Building information retrieval systems with an emphasis on trust
      and safety:
         - Combating misinformation spread
         - Building privacy preserving retrieval systems
         - Algorithmic responsibility & fairness
      - Role of information retrieval in remote & virtual setting
      - Role of search & IR in creator economy (e.g. short video platforms,
      audio platforms) & marketplaces (e.g. delivery services, hospitality
      industry, crowdfunding platforms,  retail platforms, rentals)
   - System design case-studies from industry practitioners, identifying
   best practices and design principles for learning systems, scalability
   aspects
   - Metrics and measurement techniques used at scale to understand
   performance of industrial systems
   - Presentations creating a connection with academia to solve interesting
   problems, including presentations from academics spending time in industry,
   or vice-versa, covering insights for other practitioners


The presentation format of the Symposium will be decided based on
submissions and interest to the wider community, and is likely to be a mix
of short and long presentations as well as panels.

Proposals should be at most 2 pages and follow the ACM format. Formatting
guidelines are available at the ACM Website (use the ˮsigconf” proceedings
template). Please include:

   - title, abstract, main contributions, and relevancy to SIRIP 2021 themes
   - a brief company portrait (for startup presentations)
   - a short CV of the presenter(s)


A condition of acceptance is that at least one author commits to attend
SIRIP 2021 to present the work. The authors of accepted proposals will be
invited to submit a 2-pages camera ready paper.

-
Hema Raghavan & Rishabh Mehrotra
SIRIP 2021 co-chairs

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Rishabh Mehrotra
Staff Research Scientist
Spotify, London
Web: www.rishabhmehrotra.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/erishabh
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