DESIRES 2021: Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems 2021 Department of Information Engineering Padua, Italy, September 14-17, 2021 |
Conference website | http://desires.dei.unipd.it/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=desires2021 |
Submission deadline | June 15, 2021 |
DESIRES is a biennial retreat-like systems-oriented conference emphasizing the innovative technical aspects of search and retrieval systems. DESIRES gathers researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to discuss the latest innovative and visionary ideas in the field.DESIRES mainly encourages papers about innovative and risky information access and retrieval system ideas, systems-building experience and insight, resourceful experimental studies, provocative position statements, and new application domains.
DESIRES is about discussing, learning and thinking about new ideas. Hence, no discussion will be shut off with the "let's take this offline" keyphrase, if we discuss longer than expected, we just slightly reschedule the next talks.
DESIRES needs to be done in presence to favor participation and discussion! Hence, we aim to be the first IR conference to go back to the in-presence mode! This is our bet for this year. Nevertheless, we are aware of the risks and the travel limitations that could still be enforced in September 2021. For this reason, DESIRES 2021 will be a hybrid event. If you could/want to travel to Padua, we will welcome you; otherwise, we are happy to talk to you online!
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
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- Papers (up to 6 pages + 1 page of references). Papers usually lack rigorous frameworks, simulations of performance, or prototype implementations but present a radical departure from conventional approaches that enable new applications. Accepted full papers will typically be presented in 20 minutes with (at least) 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will be a discussant for each paper that will read the paper in advance and prepare questions (plus questions from the audience).
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- Prototypes (up to 4 pages + 1 page of references). The prototype descriptions generally are a detailed report on successes and mistakes. Accepted prototype papers will typically be presented in 10 minutes with 5 minutes for questions and discussion.
- Abstracts (1 page + 1 page of references). Ideas that are too half-baked for a paper or demo proposal are good candidates for an abstract. Any author of a paper or prototype demo may additionally submit one abstract. Abstracts are expected to have a single author. Accepted abstracts are presented in a gong-show style.
- *new* Open Problems in IR (up to 2 pages + 1 page of references). This is a new track. We are looking for abstract-like papers framing an important but unsolved problem in IR. "Open-Problems" papers are expected to have a single author. Any author of a paper, prototype demo, or abstract may additionally submit one "Open-Problems" paper.
Organization
General Chairs
- Omar Alonso (Instacart, USA)
- Marc Najork (Google, USA)
- Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padua, Italy)
Invited Speakers
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Brian Johnson, Head of Search Engineering at Apple Media Products. Title: "Apple Media Products Search"
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Fabian M. Suchanek, Professor at Télécom Paris University, Paris. Title: "A hitchhiker’s guide to Ontology"
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Hinrich Schütze, Chair of Computational Linguistics and Director, Center for Information and Language Processing of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Title: TBA
Publication
The accepted (and presented) papers will be published as CEUR-WS proceedings freely available on-line: http://ceur-ws.org/ (Indexed by DBLP and Scopus). Modified or incremental versions of the papers included in the DESIRES proceedings can be submitted to other venues. The scope of DESIRES is discussing ideas, not tying them.
Venue
The conference will be held at the University of Padua, Padua, Italy (https://www.unipd.it/en/).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Gianmaria Silvello: gianmaria.silvello@unipd.it
Sponsors
- EXAMODE EU H2020 project as Gold Sponsor
- Bloomberg and Google as Silver Sponsors
- Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova as Bronze Sponsor