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TaxoConf system automates conference program organization using topic taxonomy

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Researchers have developed TaxoConf, a novel system designed to automate the labor-intensive process of organizing conference programs. This system leverages a conference-specific topic taxonomy to group accepted papers into coherent sessions while adhering to operational constraints. TaxoConf has demonstrated superior session coherence and agreement with human-curated programs, and it has been successfully deployed for the SIGIR 2026 conference, where organizers found its initial output highly satisfactory. AI

IMPACT Automates a complex organizational task, potentially freeing up human resources in academic and research settings.

RANK_REASON The item describes a research paper detailing a new system and its evaluation. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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TaxoConf system automates conference program organization using topic taxonomy

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Junhao Gan ·

    TaxoConf: Taxonomy-Guided Automatic Conference Program Organization

    Conference program organization, the task of assembling accepted papers into a technical program, is labor-intensive. Papers must be grouped into topically coherent sessions under hard operational constraints, and existing methods rarely achieve both at once. To address this prob…

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