WORKSHOPS SIGIR 2009 Workshop Program Overview Diane Kelly, Workshop Chair University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill dianek@email.unc.edu SIGIR workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and more focused way than the main conference. The SIGIR Workshop Program is a venue where discussion, collaboration and the sharing of ideas can take place. In the 2009 call for workshop proposals, workshops that fostered collaboration, discussion, and group problem-solving were encouraged. SIGIR Workshops have spanned a range of topics over the years and this year was no exception. Topics of past workshops include those that represent novel IR research areas and areas from allied fields that have drifted into the IR community. Past workshops have also addressed new (or ongoing) challenges and research problems in the community. Many workshops have developed into successful series and have appeared at consecutive SIGIR Conferences or rotated among various related conferences to draw more diverse participation. This yearâÂÂs program covered a range of topics including evaluation, multilingual retrieval, search in social media, ranking, and advertising. The program contained a mix of new workshops, as well as follow-ups from successful past workshops. Organizers were from academia, industry and government and
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