Events Summer 2022
Note from compiler Andy Macfarlane – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
Events Calendar – June 2022 into 2023
Note from compiler Andy Macfarlane – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
Search Solutions 2022 Call for presentations
Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for the presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval. We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the IR community and to share insights between research and practice. SS 2022 will be […]
Events Spring 2022
Note: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
Events Summer 2021
Note: Due to the COVID-19 crisis some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
BCS Search Industry Awards 2021
We are delighted to announce this year’s Search Industry Awards, celebrating the best search innovations of 2021. Presented by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS, these awards recognize people, projects, and organizations that have excelled in the design of search and information retrieval products and services. If you know of any people, projects, […]
Events Winter 2021
Note: Due to the COVID-19 crisis some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
Events Autumn 2020
Note: Due to the COVID-19 crisis some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
Fair Information Retrieval for Industry Workshop 27 March Glasgow
Fair Information Retrieval for Industry is a one-day workshop, sponsored by IRSG and SICSA, that will bring together practitioners from academia and industry to discuss the challenges relating to fair IR that are faced by industry and recent advances in fair IR research.
Events: Winter
One Day Events Fair Information Retrieval for Industry Workshop. 27th March, University of Glasgow, Glasgow. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fair-information-retrieval-for-industry-tickets-91620779217 LREC 2020: Workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization over Text and Speech. A one day workshop on cross language search with both text and speech. Marseilles, France. 16 May 2020. http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/clssts/ Conferences/Workshops ACM HotMobile 2020: The 21st Annual […]
Events: Autumn
One Day Events Search Solutions 2019: Out annual practitioner focused get together held on 25th and 26th November 2019. Tutorials are held on the 25th and the main event is on the 26th. A date for your diary! https://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2019/sse2019.php DIR2019: Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop 2019. A one day workshop on search. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 29 November […]
Events: Summer
One Day Events Search Solutions 2019: Out annual practitioner focused get together held on 25th and 26th November 2019. Tutorials are held on the 25th and the main event is on the 26th. A date for your diary! Conferences/Workshops EPIA’2019: 18th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Includes a number of themes including a track TEMA’19: […]
Search Solutions 2017: final programme
SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2017 Wednesday 29th November BCS London HQ, Covent Garden *** Early Bird Registration ends October 31st*** 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, with attendance strictly limited. The […]
Events – autumn 2017
One Day Events Search Solutions 2017. The annual practioner focused event for the IRSG held at the BCS offices in Covent Garden, together with a tutorial day on 28 November 2017, with the main event on 29th November 2017. http://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2017/sse2017.php Conferences/Workshops ISM2017: 19th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia. Of interest to members working in the […]
Call for Industry Day Proposals at ECIR 2017
This year’s ECIR conference will include an Industry Day, following very successful events at ECIR in recent years. The Industry Day will be held on Thursday 13th April 2017, immediately after the regular conference program. The Industry Day’s objectives are three-fold. The first objective is to present the state of the art in search and […]
Events Spring 2015
Conferences/Workshops ICAES15: Third International Workshop on Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of context and search.13-16 May 2015. Gwangju, South Korea, https://sites.google.com/site/icaes15/ WWW 2015: 24th International World Wide Web Conference. The major web conference with themes on search. 18-22 May 2015, Florence, Italy. http://www.www2015.it/
Events Summer 2014
Forthcoming Events Edited By Andy MacFarlane One day events Search Solutions 2014. Our annual one day practioner focused event, with a tutorial day. 26, 27 November 2014. Conferences/Workshops SocialCom 2014: The 7th ASE International Conference on Social Computing. Of interest to members working in the area of social search. 4-7 August 2014, Beijing, China, http://socialcom2014beijing.scienceengineering.org/ […]

Editorial
“New year, new direction?” asks Tony in his opening piece. Are we going to go back to print editions of Informer? Will we establish a new conference series on Enterprise Search? Are we going to extend our activities to the Outer Hebrides? Well, the short answer is that it’s up to you. We want to […]
Enterprise Search Europe 2014 – Conference Preview
The 4th Enterprise Search Europe conference will take place in London on 29-30 May 2014, chaired by Martin White of Intranet Focus. BCS-IRSG Members can benefit from 20% discount on delegate places. “In developing the programme, our priority is always for delegates to learn from the successes and challenges faced by other search managers,” explains […]

A roundup of Stefan Rueger’s Multimedia IR Tutorials
The tutorial on Multimedia Information Retrieval at Search Solutions 2013 held at BCS’s headquarters in London was the last in a series of tutorials by Professor Stefan Rueger from the The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute. He started the series at the end of 2009 based on the first stages of his text book with […]

Conference Review: Search Solutions 2013
The Search Solutions Conference which took place on 27 November 2013 promoted quality and diversity in the selection of speakers and topics – this quality driven choice of heterogenic elements was morphed into a homogeneous programme covering aspects from user-oriented search to enterprise-related search. The conference provided attendees the abstract layers of dogmatic search topics […]
Events Winter 2014
Forthcoming Events Edited By Andy MacFarlane Conferences/Workshops iConference 2014: annual iSchools Conference. A general information conference with of relevant to the IR community. 4-7 March, 2014, Berlin, Germany. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/ SAC 2014: Information Access and Retrieval at the 29th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. A general computing conference with a track on IR. 24 – 28 […]

Editorial
… and ECIR 2015 will be held in …hold on, let’s first look at past events before we look ahead. This summer was packed with IR-related events. It all started with SIGIR 2013 in Dublin. Dublin seems to be one of THE places for organising conferences right now with ECIR and SIGIR now over and […]

Musing on the theory of it all — ICTIR 2013
The 4th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2013) took place from September 29, 2013 to October 2, 2013, in the beautiful Danish capital of Copenhagen hosted by the University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science. As the name suggests this conference is primarily concerned with theoretical aspects of IR, however there […]
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