Call for Tutorials

The annual SIGIR-AP conference is an annual ACM-sponsored international forum that promotes and disseminates information retrieval research and development within the Asia-Pacific region. The 2nd ACM SIGIR-AP conference (SIGIR-AP 2024) will be held in Tokyo from the 9th to the 12th of December 2024.

SIGIR-AP 2024 is looking for proposals for tutorials that explore topics relevant to information retrieval and its practical uses. Each tutorial should focus deeply on a single subject. For example, tutorials might cover well-established areas of information retrieval, introduce new applications of retrieval technologies, or provide updates on recent advances in related fields.

Important Dates

Time zone: Anywhere On Earth (AOE)
Proposal submission: September 13, 2024
Proposal acceptance notification: September 30, 2024
Tutorial overview summary due: October 7, 2024
Tutorial day: December 9, 2024

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should include the following elements:

• Title and length (either half-day (two 90-minutes sessions with break), or full day (four 90-minutes sessions with breaks)) of the tutorial.
• Intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills required.
• Detailed contact information of all presenters (and an indication of the main contact person).
• Brief biography (max. 2 paragraphs) for each presenter, highlighting relevant experience in presenting tutorials, teaching grad classes, organizing summer schools, etc.

The extended abstract (no longer than 4 pages) should include the following sections:

• Motivation.
• Objectives.
• Relevance to the information retrieval community and reference to tutorials in the same area at SIGIR or related conferences (including WSDM, WWW, KDD, ACL, RecSys, ICML, etc.).
• Format and detailed schedule.
• Type of support materials to be supplied to attendees

Tutorial proposals should be prepared in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the “sigconf” proceedings template). The submissions will be reviewed by a tutorial selection committee, and final decisions will be made at the SIGIR-AP Program Committee meeting.

Proposals should be submitted in PDF through the EasyChair systemsystem (Tutorial track): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirap2024

The organizers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a four-page summary of the tutorial, to be included in the conference proceedings.

Tutorial Chairs

• Kazunari Sugiyama, Osaka Seikei University, Japan
• Masaharu Yoshioka, Hokkaido University, Japan

Contact

For further information, please contact the SIGIR-AP 2024 Tutorial Co-chairs by email: sigirap-tutorial2024@easychair.org