Short Research Papers

The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides a unique venue for industry and academia to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, data mining, and database systems, all at a single conference. CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future. CIKM 2026 will take place between November 7-11, 2026 in Rome, Italy.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

We encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on the general areas of artificial intelligence, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  • Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling)
  • Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility)
  • Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware)
  • Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graphs, multimedia, scientific, and social media data)
  • Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection and tracking, understanding, interpretability)
  • Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction)
  • Information access and retrieval (e.g., ad hoc and web search, facets and entities, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender and filtering systems)
  • Users and interfaces for information and data systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces)
  • Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices)
  • Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices)
  • Understanding multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations)
  • Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output)
  • Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media)
  • Knowledge graphs support data representation and manipulation
  • Generation of knowledge graphs using unstructured data
  • Information retrieval in the era of LLMs
  • Open-ended QA systems
  • Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Explainability in Information and Knowledge Management
  • Generative AI for Data and Knowledge Management (e.g., GenAI for structured and unstructured data processing, GenAI for data synthesis and simulation, GenAI for information summarization, content creation, and visualization)

Authors are invited to submit original short papers that have not been previously published, and are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Short papers should describe ongoing work, recent insights, or concise and well-founded research contributions, including preliminary but empirically validated ideas, that address research problems targeting top-tier research venues. Short papers should be particularly well suited to poster presentations. Manuscripts should be submitted to the CIKM 2026 Easychair site in PDF format, using the ACM sigconf template, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions should be in 2-column sigconf format. Short papers cannot exceed 4 pages, including an appendix, plus unlimited pages for the GenAI Usage Disclosure section and references (paper content is limited to 4 pages, which means that if you have an appendix, then it should be included within that page limit. It is also ok if you do not have an appendix and instead 4 pages of content).Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available on the ACM website. Please use the sigconf proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word. ACM CCS concepts and keywords are required for review.

For LaTeX submissions, please use the following document class:
\documentclass[sigconf,natbib=true,anonymous=true]{acmart}

The review of short papers will be double-blind, and those submissions that have not been properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Rome, Italy as scheduled in the conference program.

All papers for this track have to follow the template as indicated here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

All papers for this track are to be submitted via EasyChair, selecting “ CIKM 2026 Short Paper” track at the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cikm26

Short Paper Program Co-Chairs

cikm2026-short@easychair.org

  • Marco Console, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Makoto P. Kato, University of Tsukuba / National Institute of Informatics, Japan
  • Josiane Mothe, Univ. Toulouse, France
  • Andrew Yates, Johns Hopkins University, USA

IMPORTANT DATES

All deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time.

  • May 30, 2026 – Short paper abstract (required)

  • June 6, 2026 – Short paper submission Deadline

  • August 7, 2026 – Notification of Acceptance

  • August 20, 2026 – Camera-Ready Submission Deadline

We strongly encourage authors to submit their abstracts well in advance of the full paper submission deadline to facilitate paper assignment and help organize the review process.