Wednesday 25 November, 2020, Online Event
Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval
Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for presentation of the latest innovations
in search and information retrieval. In contrast to other major industry events,
Search Solutions aims to be highly interactive.
The programme includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential
industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval.
NOTE: Search Solutions offers a Tutorial Programme on Tuesday 24th November, 2020.
Programme
Abstracts of talks
All times are UK times (GMT).
10:00-10:05 | Introduction |
SESSION 1 |
10:05-10:35 | Elaine Toms, University of Sheffield: Conceptualising Search as a Set of Cognitive Prostheses |
10:35-11:05 | David Maxwell, TU Delft: Searching, Stopping and User Modelling |
11:05-11:15 | Q&A |
SESSION 2 |
11:30-12:00 | Paul Cleverley, Robert Gordon University: The Impact of COVID-19 on Enterprise Search |
12:00-12:30 | Paul Levay, NICE: Systematic searching in the age of uncertainty: identifying the evidence for NICE guidelines |
12:30-12:45 | Q&A |
12:45-13:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
13:30-13:35 | Introduction |
SESSION 3 |
13:35-14:05 | Charlie Hull, OpenSource Connections: Building the best ecommerce search with open source software |
14:05-14:35 | Agnes Molnar, Search Explained, Budapest: Impact of information quality on successful enterprise search implementation - a case study |
14:35-14:45 | Q&A |
SESSION 4 |
14:45-15:15 | Marianne Sweeny, Daedalus Information Systems, USA: IR Intelligence: Introduction to Neural IR & Learning To Rank |
15:15-15:45 | Michael Bendersky, Google Research: TF-Ranking: Learning-to-Rank in Tensorflow |
15:45-15:55 | Q&A |
SESSION 5 |
16:05-16:35 | Tony Russell-Rose, UX Labs & Goldsmiths University: Searching fast & slow |
16:35-17:05 | Jeremy Pickens, OpenText, USA: Challenges and Opportunities in Ediscovery and Information Governance: Not Everything is Big Data |
SESSION 6 |
17:10-17:40 | Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Northeastern University at Silicon Valley: Search Biases |
17:40-18:00 | Q&A and closing remarks |
Location
Online event. Further details will be provided in due course.
Registration
Please visit our Eventbrite registration page to register.
Registration fees (including VAT) are as follows:
Search Solutions + Tutorials (BCS/ISKO/CILIP member): £20.00
Search Solutions + Tutorials (Students): £13.00
Search Solutions + Tutorials (Non-Member): £25.00
Search Solutions only (BCS/ISKO/CILIP member): £15.00
Search Solutions only (Students): £10.00
Search Solutions only (Non-Member): £20.00
Tutorials only (BCS/ISKO/CILIP member): £10.00
Tutorials only (Students): £5.00
Tutorials only (Non-Member): £15.00
Organizers
Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire
Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs and Goldsmiths, University of London
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg
Steven Zimmerman, University of Essex
Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd, UK
Haiming Liu, University of Bedfordshire
Contact
For enquiries about the event please contact Ingo Frommholz.
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