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sigir-topic-selection

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Use when deciding whether a project belongs at SIGIR and in which of its tracks — testing whether retrieval is the contribution or the plumbing, forking across full/short/resources/reproducibility/perspectives/industry, and routing misfits to ECIR, CIKM, WSDM, CHIIR, ICTIR, RecSys, TheWebConf, or NLP/ML venues.

When to use

• deciding if a project belongs at SIGIR
• selecting SIGIR tracks
• testing if retrieval is the contribution
• forking across full/short/resources/reproducibility/perspectives/industry tracks
• routing misfits to ECIR, CIKM, WSDM, CHIIR, ICTIR, RecSys, TheWebConf, or NLP/ML venues
• adjudicating borderline cases like RAG or LLM query rewriting
• evaluating timing and prestige for submission

When not to use

• writing the paper
• conducting experiments
• managing reproducibility hygiene
• participating in TREC/NTCIR/CLEF campaigns

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