Fuhr's challenge: conceptual research, or bust

Authors:
David Bodoff
Affiliations:
University of Haifa
Venue:
ACM SIGIR Forum
Year:
2012

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Abstract

In his 2012 Salton Award acceptance speech, Norbert Fuhr challenged the IR research community to develop IR into an engineering science. In this note, I elaborate on the implications of this challenge, which I interpret as a call for more conceptualization in IR research. The stakes are high, because failing this transition, IR research may never be able to produce generalizable, long--term performance gains, and IR risks losing its significance as a research field.