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sigir-related-work
Use 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.
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# SIGIR Related Work
At SIGIR, related work is a credibility exam graded by reviewers who may have
written the papers you cite. IR is an old field with a living canon: a related-work
section that starts retrieval history at BERT signals a visitor from an adjacent
community, which primes every other judgment. This skill builds positioning that
demonstrates lineage fluency and states the delta mechanically.
## The lineage obligation
An IR paper is expected to know which research line it extends and to cite the
line's origin plus its current SIGIR-era frontier. The canonical lines and their
anchors (all venue-verified — see `../../resources/exemplars/library.md`):
