Demonstration papers (maximum of 4 pages plus references in ACM two-column format) should enable presenters to give participants first-hand experience of novel research prototypes, operational systems, or in-progress concepts in development. They provide the opportunity to exchange ideas gained from implementing IR systems and to obtain feedback from expert users.
A demonstration submission should both describe and show the proposed solution, addressing questions such as:
Demo Paper Submission: October 29th, 2025 (AoE)
Notification: December 10th, 2025
Conference: 22 – 26 March, 2026
Submissions of demo papers must be in English and submitted as PDF files. Papers must not exceed 4 pages, including all content (e.g., figures, tables, proofs, appendices), but excluding references and acknowledgments, which may extend beyond this 4-page limit. All submissions must follow the current ACM two-column conference format.
Please note that for demo papers, an abstract submission is not mandatory.
Authors should submit a short video of the demo in addition to the paper describing the work. The authors are also encouraged (but not required) to include a URL where the demo itself can be accessed.
Appropriate presentation technologies will be provided for all demonstrations. Accepted demonstration papers will be included in the conference proceedings.
The full and short 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.
The demonstration papers review process is single-blind; submissions should explicitly include author names and affiliations.
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 prospective papers and submission deadlines for short, demo, resource, tutorial, workshop, and doctoral consortium papers.
No changes to authorship, under any circumstances, will be permitted after the abstract submission deadline or for the camera-ready submission. So, please ensure you have listed authors correctly at abstract submission time.
All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on using Artificial Intelligence.
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