CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite submission of papers and posters of two to ten pages (including references), representing original research, preliminary research results, proposals for new work, position and opinion papers. All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high repute. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop..
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Machine learning techniques such as online learning and deep learning for eCommerce applications
- Semantic representation for users, products and services & Semantic understanding of queries
- Structured data and faceted search, converting unstructured data to its structured form
- The use of domain specific facets in search and other IR tasks, and how those facets are chosen
- Temporal dynamics for Search and Recommendation
- Models for relevance and ranking for multi-faceted entities
- Deterministic (and other) sorting of results lists (e.g. price low to high including postage)
- Personalized search and recommendations
- Inventory display issues (for example: legal, ethical, and spam)
- Cold start issues
- Personalization and the use of personal facets such as age, gender, location etc.
- Indexing and search in a rapidly changing environment (for example, an auction site)
- Scalability
- Diversity in product search and recommendations
- Strategies for resolving extremely low (or no) recall queries
- Query intent
- The use of external features such as reviews and ratings in ranking
- User interfaces and personalization
- Reviews and sentiment analysis
- The use of social signals in ranking and beyond
- The balance between business requirements and user requirements (revenue vs relevance)
- Trust
- Live experimentation Desktop and mobile issues
- Questions and answering, chatbots for eCommerce
Submission Instructions
All papers will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. All submissions must be formatted according to the latest ACM SIG proceedings template available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template (LaTeX users use sample-sigconf.tex as a template).
Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English.
Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper in-person.
Submissions to SIGIR eCom should be made at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirecom2017
The deadline for paper submission is June 25, 2017 (deadline extended) .
Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English.
Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper in-person.
Submissions to SIGIR eCom should be made at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirecom2017
The deadline for paper submission is June 25, 2017 (deadline extended) .
Download Call for Papers:
cfp-sigir_ecom.pdf |