Open source information retrieval: a report on the SIGIR 2012 workshop

Authors:
Andrew Trotman;Charles L.A. Clarke;Iadh Ounis;Shane Culpepper;Marc-Allen Cartright;Shlomo Geva
Affiliations:
University of Otago, New Zealand;University of Waterloo, Canada;University of Glasgow, Scotland;RMIT University, Australia;University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA;Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Venue:
ACM SIGIR Forum
Year:
2012

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Abstract

On August 16, 2012 the SIGIR 2012 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval was held as part of the SIGIR 2012 conference in Portland, Oregon, USA. There were 2 invited talks, one from industry and one from academia. There were 6 full papers and 6 short papers presented as well as demonstrations of 4 open source tools. Finally there was a lively discussion on future directions for the open source Information Retrieval community. This contribution discusses the events of the workshop and outlines future directions for the community.