Travel: Student Support for the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024)

该项目为大约25个美国-研究生参加第47届ACM SIGIR信息检索研究与发展会议（SIGIR 2024），该会议将在华盛顿，华盛顿特区举行，2024年7月14日至18日。SIGIR是计算机协会的信息检索特别兴趣小组。SIGIR会议一直在促进搜索和其他信息访问技术的研究、开发和教育。它是信息检索领域新研究、新系统和新技术的介绍、演示和传播的主要国际论坛。该会议是一个高度选择性的会议，包括口头和海报介绍，以及小组讨论和邀请来自行业和学术界的领先专家的演讲。会议涵盖了信息检索研究的各个方面，包括理论和基础，算法和应用，评估和分析以及人类和社会影响。今年的会议将继续在信息检索研究这些主题。此外，今年的会议将以特别主题为特色，包括（1）受大型语言模型等生成AI技术最新进展的启发，对信息检索的新观点;（2）由位于华盛顿周围的各种美国政府机构赞助的信息检索研究企业和基础设施，美国学生和研究人员在会议上的强大代表性对于保持美国在这一重要领域的竞争力至关重要。学生旅行补助金获得者的选择将强调学生的多样性。与各个STEM领域一样，增加SIGIR参与者的多样性是一个主要目标。通过提供这些旅行奖，会议希望吸引更多的女学生以及其他代表性不足的群体的学生出席会议。该项目旨在帮助美国-基于学生克服财政障碍，可能会阻止他们参加会议。该奖项将通过SIGIR 2024网站（https：//sigir-2024.github.io/）和社交媒体平台等各种渠道进行宣传。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project provides support for about 25 U.S.-based graduate students to participate in the 47th ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024), which will be held in Washington, D.C., July 14-18, 2024. SIGIR is the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. The SIGIR conference has been promoting research, development, and education in search and other information access technologies. It is the major international forum for the presentation, demonstration, and dissemination of new research, new systems, and new techniques in the broad field of information retrieval. The conference is a highly selective meeting that includes oral and poster presentations of refereed papers as well as panel discussions and invited talks by leading experts from industry and academia. The conference covers all aspects of information retrieval research, including theories and foundations, algorithms and applications, evaluation and analysis, and humans and societal impacts. The conference this year will continue these main themes in information retrieval studies. In addition, this year’s conference will feature special themes including (1) new perspectives on information retrieval inspired by recent advances in generative AI techniques such as large language models; (2) information retrieval research enterprise and infrastructure sponsored by various U.S. government agencies located around Washington, D.C.A strong representation of U.S. students and researchers at the conference is essential in maintaining U.S. competitiveness in this important area today and into the future. The selection of Student Travel Grant awardees will put emphasis on the diversity of the students. As in various STEM fields, increasing the diversity of participants at SIGIR is a primary goal. By providing these travel awards, the conference hopes to attract the attendance of a larger number of female students as well as students from other underrepresented groups. This project aims to help U.S.-based students overcome financial barriers that may prevent them from attending the conference. The award will be advertised through various channels including the SIGIR 2024 website (https://sigir-2024.github.io/) and social media platforms.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.