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Latest Developments in Search and Retrieval

Search Solutions is based on last year's Industry Day (ID2006), an event which was collocated with the European Conference in Information Retrieval. Due to the success of ID 2006, this new BCS-IRSG event follows a similar format, where a number of invited speakers involved in developing search solutions for leading companies present their latest developments and share opinions and expertise.

Programme

09:30 - 10:00 Registration and coffee

10:00 Introduction Tony Rose, BCS IRSG

Session 1: (Chair: Tony Rose)

• 10:15 Search 2.0: The Future of Search download
  Gora Sudindranath, FAST Search and Transfer

• 10:45 Delivering Relevant Search Results on a Global Scale
  Thomas Hoffman, Google

• 11:15 Meaning Based Computing: Beyond the Hype of 2.0
  Fernando Lucini, Autonomy

• 11:45 MyYahoo - personalising the web download
  Nick Cox, Yahoo

Session 2: (Chair: Andy MacFarlane)

• 13:15 Semantic Knowledge Management: Finding Information Through Meaning Not Words download
  Alistair Duke, BT Labs

• 13:40 An evaluation of Google Co-op and Social Bookmarking
  Paul Matthews, ODI

• 14:05 Flexible Text Mining using Interactive Information Extraction download
  David Milward, Linguamatics

• 14:30 Metadata: Solution or Distraction? download
  Conrad Taylor, BCS EPSG

Session 3: (Chair: Alex Bailey)

• 15:20 The business benefits of federated searching download
  Andrew Maisey, Solcara
• 15:45 Challenges in Web Information Retrieval download
  Nick Craswell, Microsoft
• 16:10 Search Trails on the Web download
  Nigel Hamilton, Trexy
• 16:35 Why relevancy based search alone struggles to deliver limited value to the business download
  Lee Atkinson, iDNA Solutions

The format of the day will be a series of talks, discussions and panels. The forum will encourage interaction and discussion with our invited guest speakers.

Also, on the evening of the 22nd of May, the BCS-IRSG will be holding a separate reception to host the BCS-IRSG Annual General Meeting and celebrate the BCS 50th Anniversary with a talk from Professor C.J. van Rijsbergen.

Location

Registration

Registration fees include lunch and a copy of the proceedings.
Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day.

Save £30, and register to become an BCS-IRSG member for free.
Visit our membership enquiry page, if you are a BCS-IRSG member and would like to retrieve your membership number.

To register please complete the registration form and return it to:
Phil Dyson by fax (+44 (0)1793 417444) or post:
BCS, First Floor, Block D,
North Star House,
North Star Avenue, Swindon, UK,
SN2 1FA

All registration enquiries to Phil on +44 (0)1793-417656, or phil.dyson [at] hq [dot] bcs [dot] org [dot] uk

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