SIGIR-AP 2026 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 11th, 2026
Proposal acceptance notification: September 25th, 2026
Tutorial overview summary due: October 1th, 2026
Tutorial day: December 13th, 2026
Submission Guidelines
All tutorial submissions must adhere to the following format:
- Title
- Authors (indication of the main contact person, if it's not the first author)
- Abstract
- Motivation
- Objectives
- Format and Length: format may be lecture-style or hands-on, or a combination; length is either half-day (two 90-minute sessions with a break) or full day (four 90-minute sessions with breaks)
- Intended Audience and Prerequisites
- 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.).
- Content: Main content of the tutorial organized into sessions
- Materials: Type of support materials to be supplied to attendees
- Presenters: Brief biography (max. 2 paragraphs) for each presenter, highlighting relevant experience in presenting tutorials, teaching grad classes, organizing summer schools, etc.
Submissions must not exceed 4 pages, excluding references.
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 system (Tutorial track): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirap2026.
The organizers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a four-page summary of the tutorial to be included in the conference proceedings.
Contact
For further information, please contact the SIGIR-AP 2026 Tutorial Co-chairs by email: sigirap-tutorial2026@easychair.org
