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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/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a report on the NTCIR-16 conference held online in June 2022. NTCIR is a series of parallel and collective evaluation efforts designed to enhance research on diverse information access technologies, including, but not limited to, cross-language and multimedia information access, question-answering, text mining, and summarization. 53 active research groups from 20 countries/regions participated in one or more of the 10 different tasks in NTCIR-16. This report introduces the highlights of the conference and describes the scope and task designs of 10 tasks organized at NTCIR-16. Date: 14--17 June, 2022. Website: https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-16/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a report on the NTCIR-15 conference held online in December 2020. NTCIR is a sesquiannual research project designed to evaluate various information access technologies, including information retrieval, information recommendation, question answering, natural language processing, etc. 55 active research groups from 22 countries\regions have participated in one or more of the seven tasks in NTCIR-15. This report introduces the highlights of the conference, describes the scope and task designs of the seven tasks organized at NTCIR-15. Date: 8--11 December, 2020. Website: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-15/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a report on the NTCIR-13 conference held in December 2017, in Tokyo, Japan. NTCIR is a series of parallel and collective evaluation efforts designed to enhance research on diverse information access technologies, including, but not limited to, cross-language and multimedia information access, question-answering, text mining and summarization, with an emphasis on East Asian languages such as Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, as well as English. 105 different research groups from 20 countries/regions participated in one or more of the nine different tasks in NTCIR-13, to compete and collaborate on a common ground and thereby advance the state of the art. This report introduces the highlights of the conference, describes the scope and task designs of nine tasks organized at NTCIR-13, and provides a brief introduction to NTCIR-14, which started from January 2018 and will be closed in June 2019, which will be the 20th anniversary since the first NTCIR Conference in the summer of 1999. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The third Asian Summer School in Information Access (ASSIA 2017) was held between 2nd and 5th August, 2017 in Kyoto, Japan. The summer school offered 9 lectures on information retrieval and related topics, along with a poster session and a panel discussion. This report introduces the successful international summer school in Asia attracting 63 participants from a wide range of countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a report on the NTCIR-12 conference held in June 2016, in Tokyo, Japan. NTCIR-12 is the twelfth sesquiannual research project for evaluating information access technologies that organizes a diverse set of tasks related to information retrieval, question answering, and natural language processing. The NTCIR-12 conference is a venue in which task organizers and task participants presented their effort on their participating tasks, and attracted 236 participants from 21 countries/regions in this round. This report introduces the highlights of the conference, describes the scope and task designs of nine tasks organized at NTCIR-12, and provides a brief introduction to NTCIR-13, which started from June 2016 and will be closed in December 2017. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]