Search Solutions Conference 2022 – London, 23 November

Search Solutions 2022 will take place at the BCS London office at 25 Copthall Avenue London, EC2R 7BP, which is a 10 minute walk from either Liverpool Street or Moorgate Underground stations.

Session 1: The Search Experience: Focus on the users

  • 10:00 – 10:15 Introduction
  • 10:15 – 10:45 Natasha den Dekker (LexisNexis) “How to conduct empathetic user research to test the search experience of users?”
  • 10:45 – 11:15 Amy Walduck (State Library of Queensland) “The Topography of Searching: Visualising search data“

11:15 – 11:45 Break

Session 2: Beyond keyword search: Semantic/conversational/audio search

  • 11:45 – 12:15 Brammert Ottens (Spotify) “Finding the Right Audio Content for You”
  • 12:15 – 12:45 Mohamed Yahya (Bloomberg) “Taking Question Answering from Research Prototype to Product”
  • 12:45 – 13:15 Filip Radlinski (Google) “Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation”

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch

Session 3: Search with an impact: Searching health-related information

  • 14:15 – 14:45 Farhad Shokraneh (Institute of Health Informatics, University College London) “The Futures of Systematic Searching”
  • 14:45 – 15:15 Gavin Moore & Andrew Doyle (University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust) “A Programmable Search – A Solution to Finding Guidelines and Patient Information?”

15:15 – 15:30 Break

Session 4: A world beyond web search: enterprise search

  • 15:30 – 16:00 Julien Massiera & Cedric Ulmer (France Labs) “Combining Spacy with Datafari Community Edition to enable semantic Enterprise Search”
  • 16:00 – 16:30 Phil Lewis (Pureinsights) “Practical Applications of Knowledge Graphs and AI in Search”
  • 16:30 – 17:00 Lightning Talks (feel free to step up and present YOUR five-minute talk)

17:00 – 17:30 Our traditional ‘fishbowl’ session

17:30 – 17:45 BCS Search Industry Awards

17:45  Drinks reception/ BCS-IRSG AGM starts at 18:00

Registration

BCS Members: £92.00
Non-Members: £110.00
Students: £80.00

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About Martin White
Martin White

Martin is an information scientist and the author of Making Search Work and Enterprise Search. He has been involved with optimising search applications since the mid-1970s and has worked on search projects in both Europe and North America. Since 2002 he has been a Visiting Professor at the Information School, University of Sheffield and is currently working on developing new approaches to search evaluation.

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