43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Develop in Information Retrieval

SIGIR 2020

SIGIR’20 Program at a Glance(Time Zone: UTC+8)

Monday,July 27, 2020

Sunday,July 26

Saturday, July 25, 2020 SIGIR Summer School [Room: Epang Palace]
9:00-17:00 Tutorial
14:30-16:30 DC Student Talk Session I [Room: Xingqing Palace]
17:00-19:00 DC Student Talk Session II [Room: Xingqing Palace]
19:30-21:00 DC Student Talk Session III [Room: Xingqing Palace]
21:30-23:00 Social Event I (Student Event I) [Room: Weiyang Palace]
7:00-8:00 Social Event II (Student Event II) [Room: Weiyang Palace]
8:10-8:30 Welcome & Conference Opening [Room: Xi’an]
8:30-9:30 Keynote I (Playback is available after 10:00) [Room: Xi’an]
The Next Generation of Neural Networks
9:40
Session 1A
Session 1B[Room: Meituan][Room: Amazon]
11:40
Neural IR and Semantic Matching
Knowledge and Explainability
14:30-15:30 Keynote II (Playback is available after 16:00) [Room: Xi’an]
On Presuppositions of Machine Learning: A Meta Theory
15:40
Session 2A
Session 2B[Room: Meituan][Room: Amazon]
18:00
Knowledge for Personalization
User behavior and Experience
19:00-20:30 Social Event III (Women in IR – Session A) [Room: Weiyang Palace]

Session 1C[Room: Alibaba]
Graph-based Analysis

Industrial Session I[Room: Microsoft]

Session 2C[Room: Alibaba]
Evaluation

Industrial Session II[Room: Microsoft]

20:00-22:00 Short/Demo/TOIS paper session I [Room: Daming Palace]

Wednesday
July 29, 2020

Tuesday,
July 28, 2020

Session 3A
Session 3B
Session 3C
22:00[Room: Meituan][Room: Amazon][Room: Alibaba]
Bias and Fairness
Learning to Rank
Question Answering
24:00
8:30-9:30 Keynote III (Playback is available after 10:00) [Room: Xi’an]
Coopetition in IR Research
9:40
Session 4A
Session 4B
Session 4C[Room: Meituan][Room: Amazon][Room: Alibaba]
11:40
Query and Representation
Graph-based Recommendation
Neural Networks and Embedding
14:30-15:30 Keynote IV (Playback is available after 16:00) [Room: Xi’an]
Proof by Experimentation? Towards Better IR Research
15:40
Session 5A
Session 5B
Session 5C[Room: Meituan][Room: Amazon][Room: Alibaba]
17:40
Domain Specific Applications 1
Learning for Recommendation
Information Access and Filtering
20:00-22:00 Short/Demo/TOIS paper session II [Room: Daming Palace], Social Event IV (DEI Event) [Room: Weiyang Palace]
22:00
Session 6A
Session 6B
Session 6C[Room: Meituan][Room: Amazon][Room: Alibaba]
24:00
Neural Collaborative Filtering 1
Domain Specific Applications 2
Context-aware Modeling
0:00-1:30 Social Event V (Women in IR – Session B) [Room: Weiyang Palace]
8:30-9:30 Keynote V (Playback is available after 10:00) [Room: Xi’an]
From Information to Assistance
9:40
Session 7A
Session 7B[Room: Meituan][Room: Amazon]
11:40
Conversation and Interactive IR
Text Classification and Transfer Learning14:30-15:30 Keynote VI (Playback is available after 16:00) [Room: Xi’an]
How Deep Learning Works for Information Retrieval
15:40
Session 8A
Session 8B[Room: Meituan][Room: Amazon]
17:40
Domain Specific Retrieval Tasks
Multi-modal Retrieval and Ranking

Industrial Session III[Room: Microsoft]

Industrial Session IV[Room: Microsoft]

Session 7C[Room: Alibaba]
Neural Collaborative Filtering 2

Industrial Session V[Room: Microsoft]

Session 8C[Room: Alibaba]
Sequential Recommendation

Industrial Session VI[Room: Microsoft]

21:00-24:00 Conference Closing and Business Meeting [Room: Xi’an]Thursday, July 30, 2020 Workshops

Virtual Conference Portal is available at https://sigir-schedule.baai.ac.cn/.

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