Call For Papers: 2025 SIGIR Workshop On eCommerce (SIGIR eCom '25)
2025 SIGIR Workshop On eCommerce (SIGIR eCom '25)
The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce will serve as a platform for publication
and discussion of Information Retrieval, NLP, and Computer Vision research
relative to their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop
will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and
industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to product search and
recommendation in eCommerce. The deadline for paper submission is April 23,
2025 (11:59 P.M. AoE)
The special theme of eCom '25 is From Research to Product: Challenges,
Lessons, and Opportunities in eCommerce Search and Recommendations.
SIGIR eCom is a full day workshop taking place on Thursday, July 17, 2025
in conjunction with SIGIR 2025. SIGIR eCom'25 will be an in-person workshop.
Important Details
Paper submission deadline - April 23, 2025 (11:59 P.M. AoE
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/time-zones/aoe/)
Notification of acceptance - May 21, 2025
SIGIR eCom Full day Workshop - July 17, 2025
Venue: SIGIR 2025 https://sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/ (Padua, Italy)
Website: https://sigir-ecom.github.io/
Organizers: Yubin Kim, Tracy Holloway King, Aditya Chichani, Pallavi
Gudipati, Andrew Trotman
We invite quality research contributions, position and opinion papers
addressing relevant challenges in the domain of eCommerce. We invite
submission of papers and posters representing original research,
preliminary research results, proposals for new work, position and opinion
papers. All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind and will be
peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high
repute. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
From Research to Product: Challenges, Lessons, and Opportunities in
eCommerce Search and Recommendations. (2025 special theme)
Solutions to practical challenges encountered while translating
research into scalable products
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Lessons from tackling irreproducibility while implementing well-known
research papers into industrial eCommerce search and
recommendation systems
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Emerging trends in eCommerce IR, such as multimodality, customer
lifetime value considerations, and online and offline usage of LLMs
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Evaluating production effectiveness, measuring business impact,
monitoring the quality of production models
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Ranking and Whole Page Relevance (WPR)
Optimization for IR and business metrics
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Diversity in product search and recommendations
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Relevance models for multi-faceted entities
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Relevance vs. revenue
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Deterministic sorts (e.g. price low to high)
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Temporal dynamics and seasonality
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Query and Document Understanding
Query intent, query suggestions, and auto-completion
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Strategies for resolving low or zero recall queries
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Cross-modal search (e.g., text, structured data, images)
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Categorization and facets
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Reviews and sentiment analysis
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Recommendation and Personalization
Personalization & contextualization
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Privacy, bias and ethics in eCommerce IR
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Blending recommendations, sponsored products and search results
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Representations and Data
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Semantic representation of products, queries, and customers
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Construction and use of knowledge graphs for eCommerce
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IR Fundamentals for eCommerce
Unified and universal search and recommendations
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Cross-lingual search and machine translation
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Indexing and search in rapidly changing environments (e.g., auction
sites)
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Experimentation techniques including AB testing and multi-armed
bandits
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Other challenges
Trust, transparency, and fairness in eCommerce
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UX for eCommerce
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Question answering and chatbots for eCommerce
Submission Instructions:
All papers will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee
and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main
themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. All
submissions must be in PDF formatted according to the latest CEUR single
column format available at
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw.
The short (8-page) and long (15-page) limits are extended to account for
this. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, see:
https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART. Read up to and including the
“License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Please Use Emphasizing
Capitalized Style for Paper Titles.
Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not
accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review
elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a
single-blind reviewing process. We do not accept anonymous submissions.
Please note that at least one of the authors of each accepted paper must
register for the workshop and present the paper.
Long paper limit: 15 pages. References are not counted in the page limit.
Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit.
Submissions to SIGIR eCom should be made through OpenReview at:
https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/SIGIR/2025/Workshop/eCom
Contact: Yubin Kim
E-mail: yubink.cs@gmail.com