[Asis-l] ACM SIGIR 2006: Mentoring Program for Conference Paper Submissions

[Efthimis Efthimiadis]

Please excuse duplication.

Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
SIGIR 2006 Conference Chair
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ACM SIGIR 2006:  Mentoring for Conference Paper Submissions

http://www.sigir2006.org
SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, August 6-11, 2006

The ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)
offers a mentoring program for papers being submitted to the ACM SIGIR
2006 conference.  If you would like help with your submission, you may
ask for a mentor---a person who will help you with your submission to
the SIGIR audience through one-on-one advising, usually via e-mail. A
mentor can also familiarize you with the standards and deadlines of
SIGIR submissions. Mentors are volunteers familiar with successful
submissions. 

Mentors are primarily available for full papers. To request a mentor,
please send email to Edie Rasmussen at mentoring_sigir at acm.org by the
deadline for mentoring requests, November 14, 2005. Please include: 

* Your name and the names of your co-authors. 
* The name of your school (or department) and institution. 
* A plain-text description of your work (a title and abstract is a
minimum requirement). 
* Any specific questions or areas in which you would like help. 
* But don't include your draft paper. 

Reasonable expectations for a mentor include giving advice as to the
most appropriate forum for your work, suggesting improvements to your
submission, suggesting how to deal with language problems, or referring
you to relevant research of which you might not have been aware.
Typically, a mentor might spend 3-7 hours on a submission. We carefully
match mentors to mentees, and wish to support you in developing your
work into a high-quality submission with a good chance of being accepted
and published. 

Note the following: 
* People requesting mentoring must have a complete submission ready for
the mentor to review by the due date (November 14). 
* If there is an experienced IR researcher in your department, a request
for mentoring may be declined. 
* No announcements of mentor/mentee assignments will be made until after
the deadline. 
* Reviewers will not be informed of whether a paper has been mentored.
That is, the fact that a paper was mentored is not considered during the
paper selection process.

SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, August 6-11, 2006
http://www.sigir2006.org