Demonstrations showcase first-hand experience with research prototypes or operational systems. They provide opportunities to exchange ideas gained from implementing IR systems and obtain feedback from expert search users of SIGIR. Contributions from startups and industry are also welcome. Accepted demonstration submissions will appear in the conference proceedings.
A good demonstration submission should be interesting to the SIGIR audience and expose people to new problems, tasks, or innovative solutions or systems to existing problems. These problems and systems include generative solutions for accessing and presenting information. The demonstration submission should address the following questions: Who is your target user? What problem is your system trying to address? Why does your system exist and why is it important? What does your demonstration do and how does it work? What does it look like? What novelty does your demonstration provide? Finally, how and when might your technology have an impact, either technically, commercially, or societally?
We especially encourage innovative and creative prototypes attempting to highlight and explore novel problems. Some examples include, but are not limited to:
- Novel demonstration of vulnerabilities in existing information systems
- Innovative user interfaces and modalities
- New use cases of search technology
- Novel approaches to information seeking and accessing tasks
- New methods for more inclusive access to search and information
- Examples of new search problems and challenges
Demonstration submissions are welcome in any of the areas related to any aspects of IR. Key criteria for evaluation will be the novelty of a solution and the potential impact on research or practice within or beyond the IR community. Papers on incremental research advances or comparison of existing methods that would be a better fit as a Short Paper submission are discouraged. Submissions that conference attendees will be able to actively engage with are strongly encouraged.
At least one author of each accepted submission must register for SIGIR 2027, and the author(s) or their delegate(s) must present the work at the conference in person.