How to use TaxoReview

Where to start, then a tutorial with screenshots for each page of a venue.
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Reviewers in the wild

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The expert database itself, for looking around and picking people by hand: who meets your bar, who works in a field, who works on a topic. A search box at the top finds an expert by name.

The experts who meet the reviewer bar of the SIGIR 2026 venue.
The experts who meet the reviewer bar of the SIGIR 2026 venue.
  1. 1 Pick the role whose bar to apply.
  2. 2 The saved bar and the number of experts who meet it; change the bar opens its page.
  3. 3 Tick the people you want. Click a name to see the expert's papers, areas and topics.
  4. 4 Tier: which requirement they meet. Those meeting both come first; the list shows the first 200.
  5. 5 Shortlist them or add them to the pool.
Browsing by expertise: from a CCF category down to a topic, with the experts on it.
Browsing by expertise: from a CCF category down to a topic, with the experts on it.
  1. 1 Pick a category. The expertise taxonomy sorts what the experts' papers are about under the ten CCF categories.
  2. 2 Or search topic names, such as dense retrieval.
  3. 3 Where you are, from the category down; click a level to go back up.
  4. 4 Sub-topics with their number of papers; a shaded one divides further.
  5. 5 The experts on the topic, by weight: their papers on it, counted with recency.
  6. 6 Shortlist or add the ticked people, as reviewers or as area chairs.