C ONTENTS
General chairs’ welcome

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Conference Organization

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Detailed Schedule

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Keynotes and Panel

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Sponsors

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Main Social Events

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Other social events

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Conference Venue

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G ENERAL CHAIRS ’ WELCOME
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to SIGIR 2019, the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. This year, the conference takes place in Paris, France.
Paris is an important scientific center in Europe, with an estimated 670.000
students in all disciplines, from Arts and Humanities to Medecine and Computer Science.
The conference starts on the 21th of July, with tutorials and doctoral
consortium sessions. The three following days are dedicated to the main
conference, with both research and application sessions. The last day isdedicated to workshops.
The technical program includes two highly stimulating keynotes by Bruce
Croft and Cordelia Schmid. On Tuesday, July 23, we put an highlight on
the SIRIP (Industry) session, with an attractive panel on the topic "To what
degree is academic research in IR/Search useful for industry, and viceversa?”, moderated by Ricardo Baeza-Yates. There are two SIRIP keynotes(Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon), by Yoelle Maarek and Jochen L. Leidner.
We also want to point out the "Diversity & Inclusion Lunch” (Tuesday,
July 22), with a keynote from Jennifer Rode, and the "Women in IR” meeting, just before the Gala on Tuesday, July 23, with a keynote by Mounia
Lalmas.
Lastly, we would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody whohelped us in setting up SIGIR 2019. First of all, we want to thank all oursponsors who provided generous support allowing us to fund many students and to keep the registration fees as low as possible.
Organizing this conference was a hard teamwork. SIGIR 2019 was
mainly backed up by the French Association for Information Retrieval andApplications (ARIA). We want to thank everybody involved in making SIGIR 2019 an exciting and (hopefully) successful conference. First and foremost, we thank all the chairs involved in selecting papers and proposals

2and putting together an exciting scientific program.
We also warmly thank all the chairs involved in the organization of SIGIR
2019. You will find their names in the next pages.
As nothing could have been done without them, we also want to thankall the members of the program committee, and more generally all those
who reviewed papers and proposals. Our final thanks go to all who will invest their time during the conference to help make SIGIR 2019 a successful
event.
We wish you a very enjoyable SIGIR 2019!
Benjamin Piwowarski, Max Chevalier and Eric Gaussier3

C ONFERENCE O RGANIZATION
General Chairs

Program Chairs

Benjamin Piwowarski
CNRS - Sorbonne UniversitéFranceYoelle Maarek
Amazon Research, Israel

Max Chevalier
Université de Toulouse, CNRSFranceJian-Yun Nie
University of Montreal, Canada

Éric Gaussier
Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS

Falk Scholer
RMIT University, Australia

FranceShort Paper Chairs
Zhicheng Dou
Renmin University of China
China

Tie-Yan Liu
Microsoft Research Asia, China

Mounia Lalmas
Spotify, UK

Arjen P. de Vries
Radboud University and Spinque
The Netherlands

Marc Najork
Google, USA

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Demo Chairs

Doctoral Consortium Chairs Industry Chairs
Charles L. A. Clarke
University of Waterloo, Canada

Hugo Zaragoza
Amazon, Spain

Gabriella Kazai
Microsoft, UK

Isabelle Moulinier
Capital One, USA

Tutorial Chairs

Workshop Chairs

Yashar Moshfeghi
University of Strathclyde, UK

Claudia Hauff
TU DELFT, The Netherlands

Min Zhang
Tsinghua University, China

Tat-Seng Chua
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Best Paper Chair

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Evgeniy Gabrilovich
Google, USA

Local Arrangements Chairs
Laure Soulier
Sorbonne Université, CNRS, France

Sylvain LamprierSorbonne Université, CNRS, France

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Julien Velcin
Université Lyon 2, FranceTreasury Chairs

Registration Chairs

Vincent Claveau
Université de Rennes, CNRSFranceMichel Beigbeder
EMSE, France

Jean-Michel Renders
Naver Labs Europe, France

Sylvie Calabretto
INSA Lyon, CNRSFranceSocial Events Chair

Web Chair

Brigitte Grau
CNRS, ENSIIE
Université Paris-Saclay, France

Publicity Chairs

Patrice Bellot
Aix-Marseille Université, CNRSFranceSponsorship Chairs

Catherine Berrut
Université Grenoble Alpes
CNRS, France

Josiane Mothe
Université de Toulouse
CNRS, France

Lorraine Goeuriot
Université Grenoble Alpes
CNRS, France

Julien Velcin
Université Lyon 2, France

Mohand Boughanem
Université de Toulouse
CNRS, France

Patrick Gallinari
Sorbonne Université
CNRS, France

Proceeedings Chairs
Pierre Zweigenbaum
CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France

Lynda Tamine
Université de Toulouse, CNRS, France

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D ETAILED S CHEDULE
Sunday, July 21
08:15-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:30 Tutorials & Doctoral Consortium
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Tutorials & Doctoral Consortium
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Tutorials & Doctoral Consortium
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Tutorials & Doctoral Consortium
20:00-23:00 Welcome Reception at Natural History Museum
Full-day tutorials
Learning to Rank in theory and practice: From Gradient Boosting to Neural Networks andUnbiased Learning
Gaston Berger
Effective Online Evaluation for Web Search

Salle 3

Building Economic Models and Measures of Search

Salle 4Morning tutorials
Deep Chit-Chat: Deep Learning for Chatbots

Louis Armand Ouest

Explainable Recommendation and Search

Louis Armand Est

Example-driven Search: a New Frontier for Exploratory Search

Loft

Web Table Extraction, Retrieval and Augmentation

Salle 2Afternoon tutorials
Fairness and Discrimination in Retrieval and Recommendation

Louis Armand Ouest

Deep Natural Language Processing for Search Systems

Louis Armand Est

Extracting, Mining and Predicting Users’ Interests from Social Networks
Learning to Quantify: Estimating Class Prevalence via Supervised Learning

Doctoral Consortium

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Loft
Salle 2

Salle ABMonday, July 22

Monday, July 22
08:15-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:20 Welcome
09:20-10:20 Keynote
The Importance of Interaction for Information Retrieval

Gaston Berger

W. Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst and RMIT University)

10:20-11:20 Posters and Demonstrations 1 + Coffee Break
Short Research Papers 1A: AI, Mining, and others

Salle 1

Short Research Papers 1B: Recommendation and Evaluation

Salle 4

Short Research Papers 1C: Search

Salle CD

Demonstration Papers 1: Interactive IR Systems

Salle AB

11:20-12:20 Research Papers sessions 1
Session 1A: Learning to Rank 1
Session 1B: Health and Social Media
Session 1C: Search Intents

Gaston Berger
Louis Armand Est
Auditorium

12:20-13:30 Lunch / Student Luncheon
13:30-15:10 Research Papers sessions 2
Session 2A: Question Answering
Session 2B: Collaborative Filtering
Session 2C: Knowledge and Entities

Gaston Berger
Auditorium
Louis Armand Est

15:10-16:40 Posters and Demonstrations 1 – continued + Coffee break
16:40-18:00 Research Papers sessions 3
Session 3A: Recommendations 1

Auditorium

Session 3B: Interpretability and Explainability

Gaston Berger

Session 3C: Fact-checking, Privacy and Legal

Louis Armand Est

20:00 Student Party

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Tuesday, July 23

Tuesday, July 23
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:00 Panel (SIRIP)

Gaston Berger

To what degree is academic research in IR/Search useful for industry, and viceversa?

10:00-11:00 Posters and Demonstrations 2 + Coffee break
Short Research Papers 2A: AI, Mining, and others

Salle 1

Short Research Papers 2B: Recommendation and Evaluation

Salle 4

Short Research Papers 2C: Search

Salle CD

Demonstration Papers 2: Evaluation and Entities

Salle AB

11:00-12:20 Research Papers sessions 4
Session 4A: Recommendations and Classification
Session 4B: Queries
Session 4C: Users and Tasks

Auditorium
Gaston Berger
Louis Armand Est

12:20-13:30 Lunch / DEI Lunch
13:30-15:10 Research Papers sessions 5 / SIRIP 1
Session 5A: Conversation and Dialog
Session 5B: Efficiency, Effectiveness and Performance
SIRIP 1: Voice, entertainment, and suggestions

Auditorium
Louis Armand Est
Gaston Berger

15:10-16:40 Posters and Demonstrations 2 – continued + Coffee break
16:40-18:00 Research Papers sessions 6 / SIRIP 2
Session 6A: Social Media
Session 6B: Personalization and Personal Data Search
SIRIP 2: Recommendation, search and advertising

18:15-19:30 Women in IR
20:00-23:30 Gala at the Science Museum

9Louis Armand Est
Auditorium
Gaston Berger

Wednesday, July 24

Wednesday, July 24
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:00 Keynote
Automatic Understanding of the Visual World

Gaston Berger

Cordelia Schmid (INRIA)

10:00-11:00 Posters and Demonstrations 3 + Coffee break
Short Research Papers 3A: AI, Mining, and others

Salle 1

Short Research Papers 3B: Recommendation and Evaluation

Salle 4

Short Research Papers 3C: Search

Salle CD

Demonstration Papers 3: Applications

Salle AB

11:00-12:20 Research Papers sessions 7
Session 7A: Relevance and Evaluation 1

Gaston Berger

Session 7B: Multilingual and Cross-modal Retrieval

Louis Armand Est

Session 7C: Recommendations 2

Auditorium

12:20-12:50 Lunch (boxes)

12:50-14:20 Business meeting

14:30-15:30 Research Papers sessions 8 / SIRIP 3
Session 8A: User Behavior and Experience
Session 8B: Hashing
Session 8C: Summarization and Information Extraction
SIRIP 3: Various applications (until 15:50)

Auditorium
Louis Armand Ouest
Gaston Berger
Louis Armand Est

15:30-17:00 Posters and Demonstrations 3 – continued + Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Research Papers sessions 9 / SIRIP 4
Session 9A: Fashion Match
Session 9B: Relevance and Evaluation 2
Session 9C: Learning to Rank 2
SIRIP 4: Legal IR

18:10-18:50 Past/Next SIGIR and Closing

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Auditorium
Louis Armand Ouest
Gaston Berger
Louis Armand Est

Thursday, July 25

Thursday, July 25
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:30 Workshops
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Workshops
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Workshops
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Workshops
Morning workshops
OSIRRC 2019The SIGIR 2019 Open-Source IR Replicability Challenge

Salle 4Full-day workshops
FACTS-IR
Salle 1
Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, Transparency, and Safety in Information Retrieval
ROME 2019
Workshop on Reducing Online Misinformation Exposure

Salle 2NewsIR’19
Third International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval
ECOM’19
The SIGIR 2019 Workshop on eCommerce
WCIS 2019
1st Workshop on Conversational Interaction Systems

LoftLouis Armand Est
Louis Armand Ouest

EARS 2019
Gaston Berger
The 2nd International Workshop on ExplainAble Recommendation and Search
BIRNDL 2019
Salle 3
Joint Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval and Natural Language
Processing for Digital Libraries

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K EYNOTES AND PANEL

Keynote 1
Monday, July 22, 09:20-10:20, Gaston Berger
The Importance of Interaction for Information Retrieval
Bruce Croft - University of Massachusetts Amherst and RMIT University
USA/Australia
A BSTRACT: There has historically been a divide between the user-oriented
and system-oriented research communities in information retrieval. In my
opinion, this divide is based primarily on a difference in viewpoint about
the relative importance of understanding how people search for information compared to developing new retrieval models and ranking algorithms.
There is strong agreement, however, that the interaction between the user
and the search engine is a fundamental part of the IR process. The IR field
was one of the first in computer science to recognize the importance of theuser-system interaction, which led to a number of core concepts such as
relevance, ranking, result presentation, feedback, evaluation, and browsing. Continuing the discussion of interaction in the past two Salton Awardlectures from Jarvelin and Belkin, the key message of this talk is that effective information access requires interaction between the user and thesystem, where both play a role. Additionally, there is growing evidence thateven more effective information access can be achieved by a system that
actively supports interaction, particularly in the limited-bandwidth environments provided by mobile devices and voice-based assistants.
In this talk, I will first give an overview of past IR research on usersystem interaction. In much of this research, the system provides passive

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support for the retrieval process and much of the burden for effective retrieval stays with the user. There has been some research, however, thathas attempted to actively support the interaction by designing expert intermediary systems. After this review, I will focus on two current areas ofresearch where active support for interaction is crucial. These are question
answering and conversational search. These areas have recently become
popular in the NLP community but they have deep roots in IR. I will describe
the specific lines of research we have followed at the Center for Intelligent
Information Retrieval and RMIT, including interactive answer passage retrieval, studies of information-seeking dialogues, and neural models for selecting responses and answers. Although there are many aspects to thisresearch, I will highlight the parts where interaction is important, how wehave attempted to evaluate the research, and where significant progressneeds to be made.
B IOGRAPHY: W. Bruce Croft is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst, Director of the Center for Intelligent Information
Retrieval (CIIR), and Senior Research Fellow at RMIT
University, Melbourne. He is an ACM Fellow and has received four lifetime achievement awards for his research,
including the Gerard Salton Award from ACM SIGIR. Fiveof his papers have received SIGIR Test of Time Awards and another threereceived honorable mentions. His Google h-index is currently 103.

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PanelTuesday, July 23, 09:00-10:00, Gaston Berger
To what degree is academic research in IR/Search useful for industry,and vice versa?

PANELISTS :Keith GutfreundElsevier, USA

Christophe Servan
Qwant, FR

Maryam Karimzadehgan
Google, USA

Arjen de Vries
Radboud Universiteit, NL

Jian-Yun Nie
University of Montréal, CA

Emine Yilmaz
UCL, UK

M ODERATOR :15

Ricardo Baeza-Yates
NTENT, Northeastern University,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Universidad de Chile

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Keynote 2
Wednesday, July 24, 09:00-10:00, Gaston Berger

Automatic Understanding of the Visual World
Cordelia Schmid - INRIA, France
A BSTRACT: One of the central problems of artificial intelligence is machine perception, i.e., the ability to understand the visual world based on input from sensors such as cameras. In this talk, I will present recent progressof my team in this direction. I will start with presenting results on how to
generate additional training data using weak annotations, motion information and synthetic data. Next, I will discuss our results for action recognitionin videos, where human tubelets have shown to be successful. Our tubelet
approach moves away from state-of-the-art frame based approaches andimproves classification and localization by relying on joint information fromseveral frames. We show how to extend this type of method to weakly supervised learning of actions, which allows us to scale to large amounts ofdata with sparse manual annotation. Finally, I will present recent work on
grasping with a robot arm based on learning long-horizon manipulations
with a hierarchy of RL and imitation-based skills.
B IOGRAPHY: Cordelia Schmid holds a M.S. degree in
Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe anda Doctorate, also in Computer Science, from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG). Her
doctoral thesis on “Local Greyvalue Invariants for Image
Matching and Retrieval” received the best thesis award
from INPG in 1996. She received the Habilitation degreein 2001 for her thesis entitled “From Image Matching to Learning Visual
Models”. Dr. Schmid was a post-doctoral research assistant in the Robotics
Research Group of Oxford University in 1996–1997. Since 1997 she has

17held a permanent research position at INRIA Rhone-Alpes, where she isa research director and directs an INRIA team. Dr. Schmid is the authorof over a hundred technical publications. She has been an Associate Editor for IEEE PAMI (2001-2005) and for IJCV (2004-2012), editor-in-chieffor IJCV (2013-), a program chair of IEEE CVPR 2005 and ECCV 2012
as well as a general chair of IEEE CVPR 2015. In 2006, 2014 and 2016,
she was awarded the Longuet-Higgins prize for fundamental contributions
in computer vision that have withstood the test of time. She is a fellow ofIEEE. She was awarded an ERC advanced grant in 2013, the Humbolt research award in 2015 and the Inria & French Academy of Science GrandPrix in 2016. She was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, in 2017. In 2018 she received the Koenderink prize forfundamental contributions in computer vision that have withstood the test oftime. Starting in 2018, she holds a joint appointment with Google research.

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Support for Student Luncheon, Women in IR and Diversity & Inclusion Lunch

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Welcome reception (Sunday, July 21)
The welcome reception takes place at the Gallery of
Evolution of the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle (26 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris). To go to the Museum, you can either:
Walk to Line 5 (Porte de Pantin, 10 min) • Direction Place d’Italie • Get off at "Gare Austerlitz" • Walk 3min Walk to Line 7 (Porte de la Villette) • Direction
Mairie D’Ivry/Villejuif) • Get off at "Jussieu" • Walk
12 min

The reception starts at 20:00 (food at 20:30) and ends at 23:00. You are allowed to visit the main exhibition as well as the special exhibition on Oceans(200 persons max. at the same time, downstairs).
I MPORTANT: Please verify you are registered for this event, and that you
have a QR code (Whova app or badge).

Dinner (Tuesday evening)
The banquet will take place in the Cité des Sciences et de l’industrie within
the museum area (Explora, 1st floor). Three exhibitions will be open before
and during the diner (Sports and body, Microbiota, and Robots).
Exhibitions for attendees open around 18:30/19:00 and close at 23:00.
Diner starts at 20:00 and ends at 0:00.

I MPORTANT: Please verify you are registered for this event, and that you
have a QR code (Whova app or badge).

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OTHER SOCIAL EVENTS

Student Luncheon (Monday lunch) - Loft
The ACM SIGIR Executive Committee will host a Student Lunch during themain conference. Only those with Student registration (and others by invitation only) may register for and attend this event. There is no cost to
attendees, but you should RSVP in advance during your registration process, since the number of places is limited (first-come, first-served; seeregistration form).

Student Party (Monday evening)
A student party will be held on Monday, July 22 from
20:00. It will take place at The Who’s Bar (1 rue Pierre
au Lard, 75004 Paris). To go to the party:Line 7 (Mairie D’Ivry/Villejuif) • Get off at"Chatelet" • Walk 6 min

I MPORTANT: Since the number of persons is limited, please verify you areregistred for it. We will distribute tickets for a free drink.

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Women in IR (Tuesday 6:15-7:30 pm) - Auditorium
The Women in IR session of SIGIR 2019 invites all the female participants(male participants are welcome too) to discuss issues relevant to female
students/researchers/employees. The session is partially structured andpartially interactive. Topics include, but not limited to: how to pitch yourideas and be convincing; how to deal with [un]conscious bias of male classmates, co-workers, etc.; work-life balance. During the session we also provide the opportunity of match-making for those who like to have mentors &those who like to mentor. The matched mentors and mentees will further
the related discussions beyond this session.
Keynote: Mounia Lalmas (Spotify)"My life as a researcher: what I loved, what I learned and some humour
always".

Diversity and Inclusion Lunch (Tuesday) - Loft
This year the ACM SIGIR Executive Committee is again hosting a Diversity
and Inclusion Lunch to provide a forum for community members to learn
about and discuss issues related to diversity and inclusion. It is open toanyone, and has a nominal additional fee. If interested, please RSVP in advance during your registration, since the number of places is limited (firstcome, first-served; see registration form).
Keynote: Jennifer Rode (University College London)"Accessibility at Conferences and Events"

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C ONFERENCE V ENUE
The conference will be held in the
Cité des Sciences et de l’industrie located in the north-east of Paris. Thisis located with the park La Villette
which is home to exhibitions, andshows.
The conference center being within a museum, a security check isdone at the entrance of the museum. This means:Only cabin luggage is OK, but this will make the security check much
longer, so please avoid if possibleCome in advance - during the day, queues are mixed with visitors

Below is the map of the Parc La Villette (on the top "Cité des Sciences").
Access from either line 7 ("Porte de la Vilette") or line 5 ("Porte de Pantin").

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Level 1 (banquet and exhibitions)

ROBOTSMICROBIOTA

BANQUET

SPORTS AND BODY

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Level 0 (Auditorium and main entrance)

MUSEUM AUX. ENTRANCE(only when museum open to public)

To the gala diner(level 1)

MUSEUM MAIN ENTRANCE
To the conference center(level -1)

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Level -1 (Conference center)To the loft
(Level -1)

Registration Desks

To main entrance(Level 0)

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Level -2 (Loft)To Conference Center(Level -1)

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