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TaxoConf Workspace

Create or select a conference workspace, then move through files, papers, and schedule planning.

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What TaxoConf provides

TaxoConf is developed by the Data Autonomy Lab at The University of Queensland, under the leadership of Prof. Zhifeng Bao. It is a taxonomy-driven system for automated conference program scheduling that provides:

  • Coherent sessions. It builds a semantic taxonomy from accepted-paper information and uses it to organize papers into focused thematic units, facilitating attendee discussion and sustained focus on related topics.
  • Flexible, constraint-aware scheduling. It fits the papers to whatever session plan you specify while satisfying operational constraints such as presenter conflicts, speaker availability, topic separation across parallel sessions, and room allocation by expected demand.
  • Human-in-the-loop last-mile editing. Organizers can freely reassign papers and refine the generated program, with TaxoConf flagging potentially questionable assignments for review.
  • Diverse output formats. It exports CSV/Excel files that import directly into conference apps, along with a rich, interactive HTML program page ready for the official website.
  • Interactive data insights. As a natural by-product of the taxonomy, TaxoConf generates engaging, interactive topic insights alongside traditional conference statistics, giving organizers and attendees a richer view of the program. Explore examples in the Insights tab.
TaxoConf overview showing paper metadata transformed into oral and poster sessions

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Introduction Video

A short introduction to TaxoConf and its main workflow, from paper upload to schedule export.

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From Papers to Sessions

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Prepare metadata
Create a workspace and upload oral or poster paper files in CSV or JSON format.
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Taxonomy-driven grouping
Use taxonomy-guided structure to cluster papers into coherent oral and poster sessions.
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Generate programs
Build track-aware sessions while respecting capacity, room, time, and optional presenter constraints.
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Edit and export
Refine the generated calendar, move sessions, and export CSV, HTML, or spreadsheet files.

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Bring TaxoConf to your conference

Planning your next conference program? TaxoConf can turn accepted papers into coherent, constraint-aware sessions, support organizer-led refinement, and deliver conference-ready program files and interactive insights. Contact us to discuss your scheduling needs, program data, and collaboration opportunities.

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Already Deployed

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Information Retrieval

SIGIR 2026

TaxoConf has supported program generation for SIGIR 2026, a top-tier information retrieval venue with multiple tracks, including full papers, low-resource environments, and industry papers. The system helped organizers keep track identities coherent while allowing flexible session capacities to make better use of the timetable.

Because many SIGIR authors appear on multiple accepted papers, TaxoConf also helped surface conflict-aware organization needs, reducing the risk of assigning related presentations to overlapping times or different locations.

Program: View the detailed program

Statistics and topic landscape: Explore the interactive view

IEEE WCCI 2026 Maastricht logo
Neural Networks

IJCNN 2026

TaxoConf has helped generate program structure for IJCNN 2026, part of IEEE WCCI 2026, at the scale of roughly 1,200 accepted papers. The conference combines in-person and virtual oral presentations, creating scheduling pressure across rooms, time zones, and presentation modes.

The tool was especially useful for more than 40 special sessions, where related papers should remain together whenever possible, and for Industry Day planning, where industry-focused presentations needed to be arranged coherently within the broader program.

Program: View the daily program

Statistics and topic landscape: Not yet available.

Next Up

DASFAA 2027 logo VLDB 2026 Boston logo ICDE 2027 Copenhagen logo ACM SIGIR 2027 logo

Drop-in Conference Insights

TaxoConf can generate a self-contained, interactive HTML page that turns a conference program into clear statistics and a navigable topic landscape. The page can be deployed directly on the official conference website for attendees to explore, or presented full-screen as part of the conference welcome and opening introduction.

Official conference website

Publish the HTML page alongside the conference program so attendees can explore participation, tracks, topics, and the research landscape in one place.

Welcome and opening presentation

Present the same page full-screen to introduce the scale, community, and topic structure of the conference at a glance.

Past Conference Insights

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Interactive conference overview

SIGIR 2026 by the Numbers

Explore conference statistics, participation, tracks, and the taxonomy landscape of accepted papers.

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Technical Grounding

Related research that informs the ideas behind TaxoConf and its taxonomy-guided program generation workflow.

SIGMOD 2027

Taxonomy Maintenance In The Wild Over Evolving Scholarly Data: Reliability, Efficiency, and Cost-Effectiveness

This SIGMOD 2027 paper studies reliable, efficient, and cost-effective taxonomy construction and maintenance over evolving scholarly data, providing technical grounding for TaxoConf's taxonomy-guided program generation workflow.

Accepted to SIGMOD 2027. View on arXiv

Paper Files

Upload files from the Files page into either Oral Files or Poster Files. Each file should provide id, title, abstract, authors, and track. Missing optional fields are shown as warnings, and missing tracks are normalized to Unspecified.

id,title,abstract,authors,track O-001,"Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Adaptive Passage Selection","We propose a novel RAG framework that dynamically selects passages...","Alice Wang, Bob Chen, Carol Liu","Full Research Papers" O-002,"Fair Exposure in Conversational Recommendation Systems","This paper addresses fairness constraints in multi-turn recommendation...","David Kim, Eva Martinez","Full Research Papers" O-003,"Efficient Dense Retrieval via Learned Index Structures","We introduce a learned indexing approach for approximate dense retrieval...","Frank Zhou, Grace Tan","Industry Papers"
[ { "id": "O-001", "title": "Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Adaptive Passage Selection", "abstract": "We propose a novel RAG framework that dynamically selects passages...", "authors": ["Alice Wang", "Bob Chen", "Carol Liu"], "track": "Full Research Papers" }, { "id": "O-002", "title": "Fair Exposure in Conversational Recommendation Systems", "abstract": "This paper addresses fairness constraints in multi-turn recommendation...", "authors": ["David Kim", "Eva Martinez"], "track": "Full Research Papers" } ]

Workspace Outputs

TaxoConf stores schedule templates, generated sessions, manual edits, and export-ready results inside the active workspace.

WS

Workspace state

Files, paper pools, calendars, and saved results.

CAL

Editable calendar

Room-by-time session cards for oral and poster plans.

XLS

Export files

CSV, HTML, and spreadsheet conference outputs.

Core Members

Prof. Zhifeng Bao
Prof. Zhifeng Bao Leader The University of Queensland Homepage
Daomin Ji
Daomin Ji Co-leader The University of Queensland Homepage

Collaborator

Dr. Junhao Gan
Dr. Junhao Gan The University of Melbourne Homepage
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Setup Panel: Paper Assignment

Mode

Assignment Mode
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Data

Conference Demo Data
Demonstration mode uses the papers, reviewers, meta-reviewers, affinity matrices, and conflict matrices stored on the server.
Upload your own JSON data to run assignment in normal mode.

Parameters

Reviewer Workload
Reviewer Coverage
Meta-Reviewer Workload

Main Panel: Assignment Result

Paper View List

Assignment Detail

Run assignment and click a paper or PC member to inspect details.

Setup Panel: Reviewer Discovery

Status

Reviewer Discovery is still in progress. The backend integration for candidate retrieval and gap analysis is being revised and the interactive controls are intentionally disabled for this build.

Planned Scope

The final version will surface reviewer-demand gaps, search candidate reviewers from external sources, and let users inspect how recommended additions reduce uncovered topical demand.

Main Panel: Reviewer Discovery

Still In Progress

This tab is intentionally disabled in the current demo build. No search or recommendation results are available yet.

Oral Session Organization

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Session Parameters

Parallel Sessions (M)
Time Slots (N)
Max per Session
Min per Session

Capacity Check

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Export

Export Format
Click a session cell after the run to inspect and edit.

Oral Schedule Result

Poster Session Organization

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Floor Plan Layout

Floor Plan Category
Specific Floor Plan
Board Count
Rectangle Rows
Rectangle Columns

Session Parameters

Session Count
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Export

Export Format
Click any poster session card or board to inspect and edit.

Main Panel: Poster Arrangement Result

Token & Cost Statistics

Track LLM token usage and estimated costs across runs and your workspaces.

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Settings

Configure LLM provider, organization methods, and similarity engine. Changes take effect immediately.

LLM Provider & Model

API Key: Account mode uses server-managed LLM credentials. Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY in the server environment.
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Session Detail

Poster Session Detail

Oral Last-Mile Modification

Poster Last-Mile Modification

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