Call for Short Papers:
ACM 2027 SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR)

Short papers should report on original, significant, high-quality research. A short paper could present a more focused study of a smaller scope than a full paper. For example, work in progress, preliminary research analysis, or late-breaking results are suitable for short papers. Accepted short papers will be published in the proceedings and presented as posters at the conference.

 

Important Dates

  • Short Paper Submission: October 29th, 2026 (AoE)
  • Notification: December 15th, 2026
  • Conference: 7-11 March, 2027

 

Submission Instructions

  • Submissions of short research papers must be in English and submitted as PDF files. Papers must not exceed 4 pages, including all content (e.g., figures, tables, proofs, and appendices), but excluding references and acknowledgments, which may extend beyond this 4-page limit. Any supplementary material may be added but are not included in the review process. All submissions must follow the current ACM two-column conference format.
  • Please note that for short papers, an abstract submission is not mandatory.
  • ACM’s CCS concepts, keywords, ACM reference format, and copyright permissions sections are required for review.
  • Reference lists should include full bibliographic information, including DOIs.
  • Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use sigconf proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word). For LaTeX, use:
    • \documentclass[sigconf,natbib=true,anonymous=true]{acmart}
  • Submissions must be anonymous and should be submitted electronically via EasyChair:
    • At least one author of each accepted paper must register for CHIIR 2027, and the author(s) or their delegate(s) must present the work at the conference in person. Authors should strive to be concise and readable. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers and a meta reviewer. Accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings and presented as posters at the conference.

 

Anonymity and Pre-print/ArXiv Policy

The full, perspective, short, demo, and resource paper review process is double-blind. Authors must take all reasonable steps to preserve the anonymity of their submission. The submission must not include author information; citations or discussion of your prior work should be written in the third person form.

It is acceptable to refer to companies or organizations that provided datasets, hosted experiments or deployed solutions if reviewers cannot infer that the authors are currently affiliated with these organizations.

You can submit papers that you have posted to pre-print/archival platforms (e.g., arXiv), or plan to post in the future, after submission. However, your paper must conform to the Pre-Print/ArXiv Policy. Breaking anonymity or pre-print/ArXiv policy puts the submission at risk of being desk rejected.

 

Authorship Policy

Authors should carefully go through ACM’s authorship policy before submitting a paper. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To support the identification of reviewers with conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified at abstract submission time for full and perspective papers and at submission deadlines for short, demo, design, resource, tutorial, workshop, and doctoral consortium papers.

No changes to authorship, under any circumstances, will be permitted after the (abstract) submission deadline. This also applies to the camera-ready submission. So, please ensure you have listed authors correctly at abstract submission time.

 

Use of AI

All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on using Artificial Intelligence.

 

Open Access

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs).

Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.

Contact the ACM for more information at dl-info@hq.acm.org.

 

Desk Rejection Policy

Submissions that violate the anonymity, pre-print policy (link to page), length, or formatting requirements, or are determined to violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty, including plagiarism, author misrepresentation, falsification, etc., are subject to desk rejection. Any of the following may result in desk rejection:

  • Figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgements, or any other content after page 4 of the submission.
  • Formatting not in line with the conference guidelines provided above.
  • Links to source code repositories that reveal author identities, or links to extended versions of the current paper.
  • Content that has been determined to have been copied from other sources. Please consult the ACM Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation and Falsification.
  • Any form of academic fraud or dishonesty.
  • Lack of topical fit for CHIIR.