Overview
The annual SIGIR conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results, and the demonstration of new systems and techniques, in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The conference welcomes contributions related to any aspect of information retrieval and access, including theories and foundations, algorithms and applications, and evaluation and analysis.

Keynote Speaker
Xin Luna Dong
July 15 at 10 a.m.
Zero to one billion: The path for a rich product graph
Zero to one billion: The path for a rich product graph
Amazon organizing committee members
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Abdigani DiryeWorkshop Chair
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Pablo Castells (Amazon Scholar)Program Chair
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Barbara Poblete (Amazon Visiting Academic)Doctoral Consortium Chair & Diversity and Inclusion
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SIRIP Chair
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Best Paper Chair
Accepted publications
Workshops
SIGIR 2021 Workshop on eCommerce (ECOM21)
July 15
SIGIR 2021 International Workshop on Causality in Search and Recommendation
July 15
Co-located with The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Tutorials
Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing
July 11
Amazon Organizer: Heng Ji
Session 1: 10:00-11:30 EDT - July 11; Live Q&A + Practicum
Session 2: 21:00-22:30 EDT July 11; Live Q&A + Practicum
Website: https://sigir.org/sigir2021/tutorials/
Session 1: 10:00-11:30 EDT - July 11; Live Q&A + Practicum
Session 2: 21:00-22:30 EDT July 11; Live Q&A + Practicum
Website: https://sigir.org/sigir2021/tutorials/
Webinars
SIGIR 2021 DEI panel discussion
July 14, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Join Amazon Alexa senior applied scientist, Luca Soldaini, and other panelists at this year's DEI panel discussion: What should the SIGIR community do to promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity?
Session 1: 14 July 2021 13:00 (EDT)
Session 2: 14 July 2021 22:00 (EDT)
Session 1: 14 July 2021 13:00 (EDT)
Session 2: 14 July 2021 22:00 (EDT)
July 08, 2021
Amazon Visiting Academic Barbara Poblete helps to build safer, more-diverse online communities — and to aid disaster response.
Related content
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July 12, 2021New method uses cross-attention and multitask training to improve the accuracy and training efficiency of video moment retrieval.
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January 12, 2021The applied scientist offers advice on how he utilized his internship to land a full-time job — and talks about how he and his colleagues won an award along the way.
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August 10, 2020Detecting comic product-related questions could improve customer engagement and Amazon recommendations.
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August 06, 2020Tools include optimizations for multicore, multiple-GPU, and distributed-training settings.