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sigir-writing-style
Use 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.
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# SIGIR Writing Style
SIGIR prose has a recognizable register: it names the retrieval task before the
model, quantifies on named collections with named metrics, and calibrates every
adjective to a statistical test. Papers written in general-ML register ("we achieve
state-of-the-art performance across diverse benchmarks") read as tourists. This
skill converts drafts into the native register.
## The first-page arc for a retrieval paper
Reviewers form the accept/reject prior on page one. The arc that works:
1. **Task + regime**: which retrieval problem, under which constraints (first-stage
vs re-ranking, latency budget, corpus scale, low-resource language, ...).