Suzan Verberne 🤹♀️
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1980 | Full Professor of Natural Language Processing (@TMLeiden), @LIACS @UniLeiden | Lives in #Nijmegen | Mother of 2 | 👩🏻💻👩🏻🏫🤹♀️🌱 🎼
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@wuliang211 @South_River1 @andrew_trotman Yes, I agree. That is why recommender systems is a large portion (the largest in fact) of papers that we kept for peer review. The desk rejections are in many areas; we judged each individual paper for its relevance to #SIGIR2025.
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@yongfengzhang9 @QingyaoAi @ACMSIGIR OK, fair enough, I should not have given that as an argument. The roles obviously are completely different: PC chairs decide if the paper is on-topic for the conference (just like editors for a journal), the reviewers judge the quality, impact, clarity, etc.
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@South_River1 @HamedZamani @andrew_trotman Very roughly, IR is about information, and this is what the CfP states: "contributions related to any aspect of information retrieval and access". We worked with internal guidelines for consistency and I can be more precise at a later moment (but a Tweet is too short).
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@South_River1 @HamedZamani @andrew_trotman Very roughly, IR is about information, and this is what the CfP states: "contributions related to any aspect of information retrieval and access". We worked with internal guidelines for consistency and I can be more precise at a later moment (but a Tweet is too short).
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@alberto_mancino @TommasoDiNoia @South_River1 @andrew_trotman True, but not every RecSys paper is a fit to SIGIR. IR is about information. The first paragraph of the CfP: "contributions related to any aspect of information retrieval and access". With the growing scale the need to adhere to this has grown. #SIGIR2025
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@QingyaoAi @ACMSIGIR I understand that. It may feel inconsistent, we tried our best to prevent that. The main guideline was "is this relevant to information retrieval and access", as stated in the call for papers. Every decision has some subjectivity, either from 3 chairs or 3 reviewers #SIGIR2025
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@South_River1 @andrew_trotman The first paragraph of the CfP explicitly states "any aspect of information retrieval and access" We admit that the part about Recommender Systems needs specification. That becomes urgent now we see the immense influx of RecSys papers compared to some years ago #SIGIR2025
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@evil__git @South_River1 @andrew_trotman @ryen_white @CarstenEickhoff Generally, the topics of all tracks are shared (there has to be a connection to information retrieval/access), but the individual paper decisions are made by each track independently. #SIGIR2025
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@tsotfsk @South_River1 @andrew_trotman That is very unfortunate. We aligned the #SIGIR2025 deadline with the notification of TheWebConf, but not with the KDD deadline because traditionally there is little overlap between the communities. That is why it took us by surprise to receive so many 'KDD-submissions'.
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@TommasoDiNoia @alberto_mancino @South_River1 @andrew_trotman I see that @alberto_mancino is a PC member for #SIGIR2025 It is all about scale. We have a high-quality set of reviewers, but we have received way more recommender systems papers than any other topic So many non-recsys people will review recsys-papers and that is not ideal.
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@HamedZamani @South_River1 @andrew_trotman The thing is, not every paper on recommender systems is a fit to SIGIR. Some much better fit in KDD, for example. We really looked at the topic within the recommender category (there are is a large diversity) and at individual papers
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@XiongChenyan Conferences have a multi-year policy. Not every paper on recommender systems is a fit to SIGIR. Some much better fit in KDD, for example. In the papers that we kept and we sent out to review, recommender systems is still /by far/ the largest category.
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Recommender system is not "kicked off" from SIGIR. In fact, in the papers that we kept and we sent out to review, recommender systems is still /by far/ the largest category. We looked at each individual paper to decide if it was on-topic for SIGIR. #SIGIR2025
Recommender system is just "kicked off" from ACM SIGIR, because it is the largest reserach topic in IR. Ridiculous? @suzan @andrew_trotman Hard to believe: SIGIR 2025 desk rejects 35% submissions as OUT-OF-SCOPE, and most of them are recommendation papers. #sigir #sigir2025
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@sonyisme @South_River1 @andrew_trotman @ryen_white @CarstenEickhoff There is no 180 degree turn. Many recommender systems papers were not desk rejected. In fact, in the papers that we kept and we sent out to review, recommender systems is still /by far/ the largest category. But not every RecSys paper is a potential SIGIR paper.
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@HamedZamani @South_River1 @andrew_trotman Hamed is correct. Many recommender systems papers were not desk rejected. In fact, in the papers that we kept and we sent out to review, recommender systems is still /by far/ the largest category.
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