{"id":7123,"date":"2021-08-04T09:17:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T08:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:17:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T08:17:36","slug":"the-information-retrieval-anthology-2021-inaugural-status-report-and-challenges-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7123","title":{"rendered":"The Information Retrieval Anthology 2021: inaugural status report and challenges ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\">To quote from a <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/3476415.3476417\">paper<\/a> published in the June 2021 issue of SIGIR Forum, &#8220;The Information Retrieval Anthology, IR Anthology for short, is an endeavor to create a comprehensive collection of metadata and full texts of IR-related publications. We report on its first release, the use cases it can serve, as well as the challenges lying ahead to develop it towards a resource that serves the IR community for years to come. The IR Anthology\u2019s metadata browser and full text search engine are available at <\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">IR.webis.de<\/span><span class=\"fontstyle0\">.&#8221;\u00a0 The anthology is a quite amazing piece of research that takes the approach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/aclanthology.org\/\">ACL Anthology<\/a> and extends it to Information Retrieval, indexing and categorising 53,673 research papers on information retrieval from journals and conference proceedings.\u00a0 The papers are presented in a year-by-year chronology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing this item the <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/toc\/sigir\/2021\/55\/1\">June 2021 issue of SIGIR Forum<\/a> exists on the ACM Digital Library (and is therefore restricted access to ACM Members) but the open access version has not been added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/sigir.org\/forum\/\">SIGIR Forum web site<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.webis.de\/anthology\/\">Anthology listing<\/a> is available but this site gives no background information on the project. The list of proceedings and journals is very useful though I am surprised to see that the Journal of Information Science is not included.<\/p>\n<p>In passing I should note that there is a very good overview of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3476415.3476424\">ECIR 2021 conference<\/a> in this issue of Forum.<\/p>\n<p>It is disappointing that there is no indication (as of 3 August) as to why the OA issue is not available on the SIGIR web site. However there is an <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1145\/3404835.3462798\">open-access summary version of the paper<\/a> presented at SIGIR 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To quote from a paper published in the June 2021 issue of SIGIR Forum, &#8220;The Information Retrieval Anthology, IR Anthology for short, is an endeavor to create a comprehensive collection of metadata and full texts of IR-related publications. We report on its first release, the use cases it can serve, as well as the challenges&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=7123\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Information Retrieval Anthology 2021: inaugural status report and challenges ahead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-review","category-summer-2021","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}