In this issue
The 2023 AGM will take place on the evening of the Tutorial Day (21 November) at Search Solutions. There are a number of vacancies on the Committee going forward into 2024 and IRSG Chairman Udo Kruschwitz encourages candidates to contribute to the development of IRSG over the year ahead. Search Solutions 2023 takes place in […]
2023 AGM and Committee nominations
The BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group invites nominations for the following positions: – Vice Chair – Secretary – Inclusion Officer – Early Careers Advocate – Events Coordinator – 1 ordinary member of the committee Those elected will serve a two-year term commencing from the 2023 AGM which will be held on 21 November 2023 at 1800 London time after the […]
From the BCS IRSG Chair
Welcome back to a new issue of Informer! There is quite a lot happening in our community as you can see when browsing the contents. So let me try to be brief which gives you more time to study the other articles … ECIR is over, ECIR is coming up … the usual cycle. The […]
Search Solutions 2023 – Tutorials London 21 November 2023
Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval. Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval. It is a unique opportunity to bring together academic research and practitioner experience. The Search Solutions event consists of a Tutorial day and a Conference day, […]
Search Solutions 2023 – Conference. London, 22 November 2023
Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval. Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval. It is a unique opportunity to bring together academic research and practitioner experience. The Search Solutions event consists of a Tutorial day and a Conference day, […]
ECIR 2024 Glasgow – a status report
The 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024) will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, 24th-28th March 2024. ECIR is the annual premier European forum for the presentation of new research results in Information Retrieval. ECIR will be held in central Glasgow at the excellent Radisson Blu hotel (actually, Radisson Blu was also the venue […]
KSJ Awards 2023 nominations
A pioneer of information retrieval, the computer science sub-discipline that also underpins the technology of modern Web search engines, Karen Spärck Jones was a British professor of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge. Her contributions to the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR), especially with regard to […]
Search Insights 2024 London 22 February 2024
The IRSG Committee has accepted a proposal from The Search Network to run a one-day event focused on providing advice for IT managers and search managers seeking to optimise the value of search in their organisations and for customers. The event will be held at the BCS London HQ on 22 February. The programme will […]
1978 and the first search revolution
We are currently struggling to cope with the rapid deployment of new search technologies as though nothing like this has happened before. I get a sense of déjà vu because something quite similar started to take place in 1978 with the arrival of search software on mini-computers. To be sure it took some time for […]
Events listing
One Day Events Search Solutions 2023: The groups annual industry focused event, includes a tutorial day. 21-22 November 2023. https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/conferences-and-events/search-solutions/
FDIA 2023
The Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) 2023 symposium was held on Friday 1 September 2023 in Vienna, Austria in conjunction with ESSIR 2023 . The purpose of FDIA is to provide Master and PhD students as well as early- career researchers a platform to discuss their research and project ideas with experts in the […]
And very finally….from the Editor
This is my final issue of Informer. I’ve been the curator since taking over from Udo in 2019 and have enjoyed creating and editing the issues, supported by Steve Zimmerman and Tony Russell-Rose who have uploaded the text into a readable format. I’ve already written a substantial article in this issue on what I regard […]
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