SIGIR Skills
A 12-skill depth pack for SIGIR, the ACM flagship information-retrieval conference: track and topic routing, dual full/short-paper submission audits, IR evaluation and significance-testing rigor, test-collection and artifact packaging, the separate Resources and Reproducibility tracks, review-phase strategy, and ACM TAPS camera-ready production. Grounded in the SIGIR 2026 (49th, Melbourne) cycle p
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12- ▌ Sigir Workflow · brycewang-stanfordUse when planning a SIGIR project calendar — backward-planning from the January-pattern abstract/paper deadlines to the July conference, sequencing evidence freeze, significance testing, and anonymization, coordinating multi-track decisions, and wiring the SIGIR/ECIR/CIKM/WSDM/SIGIR-AP fallback calendar into one pipeline.
- ▌ Sigir Submission · brycewang-stanfordUse when auditing a SIGIR full or short paper before the deadline — the 9-page vs 4-page budgets with appendices counted inside, ACM sigconf anonymization, per-track OpenReview groups, the PC-member nomination duty, cross-track double-submission bans, AI-use disclosure, and desk-reject triage for the ACM SIGIR conference.
- ▌ Sigir Experiments · brycewang-stanfordUse when designing or auditing the empirical program of a SIGIR paper — choosing test collections that match the claim, metric-cutoff discipline, paired significance testing with multiple-comparison correction, baseline tuning symmetry, ablations that isolate mechanisms, efficiency reporting, and LLM-era evaluation pitfalls.
- ▌ Sigir Camera Ready · brycewang-stanfordUse when an accepted SIGIR paper must become the ACM Digital Library version of record — de-anonymizing the sigconf source, CCS concepts and keywords, the e-rights form, TAPS source upload and proof checking, restoring real system and dataset names, and the April camera-ready window before the July conference.
- ▌ Sigir Related Work · brycewang-stanfordUse when positioning a paper against the information-retrieval literature for SIGIR — tracing lineage through SIGIR/TOIS/TREC canon, contrasting mechanisms with the nearest recent SIGIR papers, avoiding venue misattribution (DPR is EMNLP, ANCE is ICLR, NCF is WWW), and handling arXiv-era concurrent work in a fast-moving field.
- ▌ Sigir Supplementary · brycewang-stanfordUse when deciding what goes inside a SIGIR paper's page budget versus the cited repository — SIGIR counts appendices inside the 9-page (full) and 4-page (short) limits with only references free, so overflow material must be re-homed into run files, repository docs, or cut, without hiding review-critical evidence outside the paper.
- ▌ Sigir Writing Style · brycewang-stanfordUse when drafting or revising prose for a SIGIR paper — the IR register that leads with task, collection, and metric; claim sentences calibrated to significance results; first-page architecture for retrieval contributions; table-centric argumentation; and compressing into the 9-page budget without cutting soundness.
- ▌ Sigir Review Process · brycewang-stanfordUse when reasoning about how SIGIR evaluates submissions — the per-track OpenReview machinery, double-blind full/short review versus single-anonymous Resources review, the PC-member nomination duty, what IR reviewers score (evaluation validity above novelty claims), the ACM Peer Review Policy layer, and how decisions land.
- ▌ Sigir Author Response · brycewang-stanfordUse when reviews arrive for a SIGIR submission and the authors must decide how to answer — triaging IR-reviewer objections (weak baselines, missing significance tests, collection choice), writing within whatever response mechanism the current SIGIR cycle actually offers, and planning the resubmission path if the answer is no.
- ▌ Sigir Reproducibility · brycewang-stanfordUse when strengthening the reproducibility of a SIGIR paper or preparing a SIGIR Reproducibility track submission — pinning the retrieval pipeline, seeds and variance for neural rankers, documenting collection versions and index settings, and structuring a reproduction study of published IR results with honest divergence analysis.
- ▌ Sigir Topic Selection · brycewang-stanfordUse when deciding whether a project belongs at SIGIR and in which of its tracks — testing whether retrieval is the contribution or the plumbing, forking across full/short/resources/reproducibility/perspectives/industry, and routing misfits to ECIR, CIKM, WSDM, CHIIR, ICTIR, RecSys, TheWebConf, or NLP/ML venues.
- ▌ Sigir Artifact Evaluation · brycewang-stanfordUse when packaging code, run files, test collections, or judgments for a SIGIR submission — deciding between an artifact inside a full/short paper and a standalone Resources track paper, building reviewer-runnable IR repositories, run-file and qrels hygiene, licensing and datasheets, and single- vs double-anonymous handling.