Topic 1: Conference Program Management
1.1) TaxoConf: A Taxonomy-Driven System for Conference Program Management (System Prototype)
TaxoConf is a system that automates the construction of coherent technical programs for large academic conferences. Given a set of accepted papers, it induces a topic taxonomy from paper abstracts and uses it to organize papers into thematically coherent oral and poster sessions, while jointly minimizing author scheduling conflicts and respecting capacity constraints on session sizes, parallel rooms, and time slots.
The system offers four key features: (1) accurate and coherent grouping of papers into sessions through taxonomy-guided topical clustering; (2) a unified, high-level schedule that consistently organizes sessions across multiple tracks; (3) flexible and convenient human-in-the-loop modification, allowing organizers to refine automatically generated programs with ease; and (4) diverse and practical data exports, enabling users to produce CSV or Excel files that can be readily imported into conference apps, as well as a rich, detailed HTML program page for attendee navigation.
TaxoConf has been adopted to help organize the programs of top computer science conferences, including SIGIR 2026 and IJCNN 2026, and is deployed as a live web application at taxoconf.com.
