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sigir-topic-selection
Use 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.
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# SIGIR Topic Selection
Two decisions, in order: (1) is this an information-retrieval contribution at all,
and (2) which SIGIR track owns it. Both are cheaper to get right in October than to
learn from reviews in March. SIGIR 2026's verified lineup — Full, Short,
Perspectives, Resources, Reproducibility, Low Resource Environments, and Industry
tracks — makes the second decision genuinely multi-way.
## Test 1: is retrieval the contribution or the plumbing?
The LLM era floods SIGIR with papers where retrieval is present but incidental.
The discriminating question: **if you swapped the retrieval component for an oracle
(or a black box), would the contribution survive?**
