sigir-related-work
Use when positioning a paper against the information-retrieval literature for SIGIR — tracing lineage through SIGIR/TOIS/TREC canon, contrasting mechanisms with the nearest recent SIGIR papers, avoiding venue misattribution (DPR is EMNLP, ANCE is ICLR, NCF is WWW), and handling arXiv-era concurrent work in a fast-moving field.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sigir-related-work --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# SIGIR Related Work At SIGIR, related work is a credibility exam graded by reviewers who may have written the papers you cite. IR is an old field with a living canon: a related-work section that starts retrieval history at BERT signals a visitor from an adjacent community, which primes every other judgment. This skill builds positioning that demonstrates lineage fluency and states the delta mechanically. ## The lineage obligation An IR paper is expected to know which research line it extends and to cite the line's origin plus its current SIGIR-era frontier. The canonical lines and their anchors (all venue-verified — see `../../resources/exemplars/library.md`): | Line | Origin anchor | What your delta sentence must contrast | |---|---|---| | Probabilistic/lexical ranking | Robertson-era BM25 work; Ponte & Croft's language-modeling approach (SIGIR 1998) | Which term-weighting/estimation assumption you change | | LM smoothing & estimation | Zhai & Lafferty (SIGIR 2001) | Estimation method, prior, or evidence source | | Graded evaluation | Järvelin & Kekäläinen (SIGIR 2000; nDCG lineage) | Which validity gap your metric/protocol closes | | Neural re-ranking / late interaction | ColBER
- The lineage obligation
- Venue misattribution: the IR-specific trap
- The delta sentence, mechanized
- Concurrent and arXiv-era work
- Positioning failures that cost accepts
- The reviewer-eye test
- Placement under the 9-page budget
- Output format
Bibliography audit: flag entries whose venue field is suspiciously vague grep -nE "booktitle.*(arXiv|CoRR|preprint)" refs.bib # published since? grep -nE "@misc|howpublished" refs.bib # citing repos as papers? grep -in "sigir" refs.bib | wc -l # lineage presence check
What does the sigir-related-work skill do?
Use when positioning a paper against the information-retrieval literature for SIGIR — tracing lineage through SIGIR/TOIS/TREC canon, contrasting mechanisms with the nearest recent SIGIR papers, avoiding venue misattribution (DPR is EMNLP, ANCE is ICLR, NCF is WWW), and handling arXiv-era concurrent work in a fast-moving field.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill sigir-related-work --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.