Report on the 46th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023): Reflections from the Program Co-Chairs

Abstract

The ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval has been experiencing significant growth over the past few years. In 2023, SIGIR received a total of 822 full paper submissions and 1,787 papers/proposals. This has brought several challenges to the conference program organization. This article reports some of the main aspects of the work conducted by the program committee (PC) co-chairs for SIGIR 2023, and discusses emergent issues of the review process and program design. We expect that this document serve as a reference for future PC co-chars and as a starting point for further discussions towards improving the review process and overall conference experience. Date : 23--27 July 2023. Website : https://sigir.org/sigir2023/.