SWIRL (http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/swirl12/index.php) is a workshop series that aims to explore the long-range issues in information retrieval. The 2012 meeting will take place next month in Lorn...
https://nonrel.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/swirl-12-looks-at-the-future-of/
A “highlights” post is meant to call attention to a paper which grabbed our attention and we think is worth your time. This paper, “Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: On the Effect of Social ...
https://nonrel.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/sigir-2011-highlight-out-of-sight-not-out-of-mind/
Accepted SIGIR 2011 authors have started posting their papers online, so I have decided to collect them here. Please comment on the ones you think are the most interesting and important. As I...
https://nonrel.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/sigir-2011-previews/
CIKM 2010 is taking place right now in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I have collected all the papers in the IR track below. Please take a moment to vote for those papers you think are the most pr...
https://nonrel.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/vote-for-the-best-cikm-2010-papers/
Gordon V. Cormack, Mark D. Smucker, and Charles L. A. Clarke University of Waterloo The TREC 2009 web ad hoc and relevance feedback tasks used a new document collection, the ClueWeb09 dataset, wh...
Now that we are past the SIGIR camera-ready deadline, I posted a call for submissions to IRlist. We now have two submissions, and I hope we can post them next week. I was asked by a potential a...
https://nonrel.wordpress.com/2010/04/30/news-update-copyright-guidance/
I’m pleased to announce that we are ready to open the gates for submissions. We’ve updated the editorial guidelines (see the link on the side) to include submission guidelines and instruction...
https://nonrel.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-gates-are-now-open/
Things have been moving quickly over the past few days. We’ve added more members to the editorial board, and the board has been discussing the form this journal should take. I’ve set things...
https://nonrel.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/board-correspondence-errata-etc/
One or two people asked me if I am serious, and I guess the initial post was a bit silly in tone. So let’s try that again. Welcome to Not Relevant, a new electronic journal for information re...
https://nonrel.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/welcome-a-little-more-seriously/
This blog was born out of reading complaints from lots of people that their SIGIR paper was rejected. Ok, we’ve all been there, most of it is probably sour grapes but surely there are some ge...
https://nonrel.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/welcome-to-not-relevant/