Call For Papers: 3rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific (SIGIR-AP 2025)

[Zhaochun Ren]

SIGIR-AP 2025 (December 7–10, 2025 | Xi’an, China)

The 3rd ACM SIGIR Asia-Pacific Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR-AP 2025) invites submissions of high-quality research papers in all areas of Information Retrieval (IR). The conference will be held December 7–10, 2025 in Xi’an, China, with hybrid participation options. Abstracts are due by July 1, 2025, and full papers by July 8, 2025.

Submission Types

• Regular Submissions:
  We welcome original research contributions that advance the theory and practice of IR, including:
  
  

  • Research papers: Theoretical or empirical studies
    
    

  • Resource papers: Datasets, tools, and benchmarks
    
    

  • Reproducibility papers: Re-implementations or re-evaluations of prior work
    
    

  • Industry papers: Practical IR deployments and real-world challenges
    
    

  • Perspective papers: Critical analyses or novel visions
    
    

• SIGIR-RR Submissions:
  A special track for revised and resubmitted papers that were not accepted at SIGIR 2025, with an author response document explaining changes made in response to SIGIR reviews.
  
  

Important Dates (AOE)

• Abstract registration: July 1, 2025
  
  

• Full paper submission: July 8, 2025
  
  

• Notification: September 12, 2025
  
  

• Camera-ready version: September 26, 2025
  
  

Submission Guidelines

• Length: 2 to 9 pages (excluding references), commensurate with contribution
  
  

• Format: ACM sigconf format, double-anonymized
  
  

• Language: English
  
  

• Submission site: EasyChair (link to be provided on the official website)
  
  

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. At least one author must register and present the work (in-person or online).

Topics of Interest

SIGIR-AP 2025 shares its scope with the main SIGIR conference, including but not limited to:

• Core IR: Retrieval models, ranking, indexing, web search, evaluation
  
  

• Recommender systems: Algorithms, evaluation, interactive recommendation
  
  

• Machine learning & NLP for IR: LLMs, generative IR, retrieval-augmented generation
  
  

• Conversational and interactive IR: Dialogue systems, session-based search
  
  

• Human factors: User modeling, interfaces, behavior analysis
  
  

• Evaluation methodologies: Offline/online, user-centered, simulation-based
  
  

• Societal impacts: Fairness, ethics, bias, transparency
  
  

• Multimodal and domain-specific IR: Multimedia, healthcare, legal, education
  
  

• Industrial IR: Scalable systems, deployment challenges, user trust and safety
  
  

We particularly encourage submissions that share resources and support reproducibility.

For full CFP and submission info: https://www.sigir-ap.org/sigir-ap-2025/call-for-papers/index.html

We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to SIGIR-AP 2025 in Xi’an!