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FDIA 2008: Future Directions in Information Access
2008-09-22 | Promoting and Encouraging Early Research in Information Access
At the first symposium held last year, the aim was to provide a forum where future directions of information access can be presented and discussed in an open and friendly environment. | Leif Azzopardi | More Info |
ECIR 2008
2008-03-30 | ECIR is the major European forum for the presentation of new research results in the broad field of Information Retrieval. The conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results. | Ian Ruthven | More Info |
FDIA 2007: Future Directions in Information Access
2007-08-28 | Promoting and Encouraging Early Research in IR
Information Retrieval conferences are now becoming highly competitive. As such, it is difficult for many new researchers to present and share their ideas which are at more formative or tentative stages. The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum where future directions of information access can be presented and discussed in an open and friendly environment. | Leif Azzopardi | More Info |
ACM SIGIR 2007: Call for Participation
2007-07-23 | SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new
research results and for the demonstration of new systems and
techniques in the field of information retrieval (IR). On-line
registration for the conference is now open.
*Important Dates*
June 15 2007: Early registration deadline
July 23-27, 2007: Conference in Amsterdam | Get Info | More Info |
Bid call for ECIR 2009
2007-06-29 | The BCS IRSG Committee is interested in hearing from bidders for organizing ECIR 2009 in continental Europe. The next two ECIR's are to be held in Rome (2007) and Glasgow (2008). Please see the guidelines.
*Deadline* for ECIR 2009 proposals Midnight UTC Friday 29th June 2007 | Andy MacFarlane | More Info |
Search Solutions
2007-05-23 | Search Solutions is a special one-day event devoted to the interests and needs of information retrieval practitioners. This event explores the challenges involved in designing and developing practical solutions for information search and retrieval, and aims to build bridges between IR specialists in industry and academia. This forum presents an opportunity for commercial organisations to share their work with a wider audience, and for researchers to learn more about the issues faced by search professionals in developing innovative search and retrieval products and services.
The event will be held in London, and registration is now open. | | More Info |
DIR 2007 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
2007-03-28 | The primary aim of the DIR 2007 Workshop is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from the domain of information retrieval (IR) and related disciplines can exchange and present innovative research developments. We invite participation from academia and industry. Especially, Ph.D. students are encouraged to attend.
Workshop to be held at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium on
March 28-29, 2007
Registration is possible till March 25, 2007.
| Arjen de Vries | More Info |
SIGIR 2007: 2nd Call for papers for Doctoral Consortium
2007-03-11 | The ACM SIGIR Doctoral Consortium provides doctoral students with a
unique opportunity to have substantive interaction with other
researchers regarding their proposed dissertation research. The Consortium will take place on the same day as the Tutorials,
with the format being: student presentations with plenary
discussions, lunch, individual meetings with experienced researchers,
and dinner.
*Important Dates*
March 11, 2007: Doctoral consortium submissions due
April 11, 2007: Notification of acceptance for all submissions
July 23-27, 2007: Conference in Amsterdam | Djoerd Hiemstra | More Info |
Annual General Meeting + Talk
2007-02-12 | Celebrating 50 years of the BCS and over 30 years of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group
This year the AGM will be held on the evening of the Tuesday 22nd of May, together with a talk to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the BCS. The talk is entitled Past, Present and Future of Information Retrieval and will be given by Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen of the University of Glasgow.
These events are free, and we welcome all IRSG members to attend both the AGM and the Talk. | Andy MacFarlane | More Info |
Winter Informer
2007-02-02 | The Winter Informer has now been released. Read about the AIR Symposium and Teaching and Learning Workshop, find out about the new KIDMM specialist group and more. | Tony Rose | More Info |
SIGIR 2007: Call for Tutorials and Call for Workshops
2007-02-01 | SIGIR 2007 will begin with a full day of tutorials on July 23, 2007.
Proposals are solicited for tutorials of either a half-day (3 hours plus
breaks) or full day (6 hours plus breaks) on all topics of information
retrieval and its applications.
Important dates
February 25, 2007: Poster, demonstration, tutorial, and workshop submissions | Djoerd Hiemstra | More Info |
SIGIR 2007: Call for Papers
2007-01-28 | The 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 23-27 July 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new
research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques
in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and
Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit
original research contributions, posters, and proposals for tutorials,
workshops, and demonstrations of systems. | Djoerd Hiemstra | More Info |
IRSG Student Questionniare
2007-01-15 | The BCS-iRSG would like to find out more about our student members. Please take a few minutes to fill out our student questionniare. Thanks! | Simon Overell | More Info |
WGI and BCS-IRSG
2006-12-11 | The BCS-IRSG has secured an “in cooperation” agreement with the Dutch Working Community on Information Sciences (WGI). Each year WGI hold the Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop. The primary aim of the DIR workshops is to provide an international meeting place where researchers from the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines, can exchange information and present new research development.
The 7th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR2007) will be held in Leuven, Belgium on the 28th and 29th of March. | IRSG Chair | |
ECIR Workshop Report
2006-11-03 | The ECIR workshop proceedings are now available.
This report contains a summary of the presentations, survey results, and the discussion during the workshop and includes the guidelines for writing good ECIR papers.
The Draft ECIR Paper Guidelines are also available.
This report contains the guidelines for writing good ECIR papers that are theoretical, conceptual, experimental, applications, and/or user oriented, in nature.
| Leif Azzopardi | |
SIGIR 2007: Mentoring for Conference Paper Submissions
2006-10-15 | The ACM Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR)
offers a mentoring program for papers being submitted to the ACM SIGIR
2007 conference. If you would like help with your submission, you may
ask for a mentor---a person who will help you with your submission to
the SIGIR audience through one-on-one advising, usually via e-mail. | Mark Sanderson | More Info |
Call For ECIR BIDS 2008
2006-06-01 | We are now accepting bids for hosting ECIR 2008. Since the conference will be in 2008 the conference is to be held at a UK Location. The application and bid document are available by following the link. | Andy MacFarlane | More Info |
ECIR 2006 Proceedings
2006-05-14 | For anyone who missed ECIR, or who would like a copy of the proceedings, surplus copies are now available for £20.
The copies are available by contacting Alexei Yavlinsky (agy02doc.ic.ac.uk) or Simon Overall (seo01@doc.ic.ac.uk), or through Amazon Marketplace. | Simon Overell | More Info |
Spring Informer
2006-04-29 | The Spring Informer has now been released. Read a review of ECIR 2006, check out what happened at Industry Day, get the latest on new products and more. | Tony Rose | More Info |
Industry Day
2006-04-13 | BCS IRSG Industry Day: a one-day workshop devoted to the challenges involved in developing operational IR products and services | Alex Bailey | More Info |
ECIR 2007
2006-03-04 | ECIR 2007 is to be held in Rome hosted by Fondazione Ugo Bordoni and organised by Gianni Amati. Congratulations. | ecir2007 | More Info |
CALL FOR ECIR 2007
2005-06-21 | We are now accepting bids for hosting ECIR 2007. The application and bid document are available by following the link. | Andy MacFarlane | More Info |
CoLIS 2005 Workshop Sponsorship
2005-06-09 | If you are attending the CoLIS 2005 workshops, IRSG members will receive a £5 discount. If you are not a member, register and still get £5 off!
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IRSG AGM
2005-03-22 | The Annual General Meeting was held during ECIR 2005 in Santiago de Compostella, Spain. See the programme of events for details. | Andy Macfarlane | More Info |
