Search Solutions 2022 ------------------------------ Weds 23 November 10:00 - 18:00 https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/conferences-and-events/search-solutions/
Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual forum focused on practitioner issues and latest innovations in the area of Search and Information Retrieval. The programme includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. 09:30 - 10:00 Registration and coffee 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 / BCS-IRSG AGM starts 18:00 TUTORIALS (Tuesday 22 November) Tutorial 1 – Full day IR From Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond through Practical Experiments * Sean MacAvaney (University of Glasgow), Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow), Nicola Tonellotto (University of Pisa) Tutorial 2 – AM Approaching Neural Search with Apache Solr and Open-source technologies * Alessandro Benedetti (CEO @ Sease Ltd, Apache Lucene/Solr Committer, Apache Solr PMC Member) Tutorial 3 – PM Simplifying NLP researchers work with Datafari Open Source * Julien Massiera (France Labs), Cedric Ulmer (France Labs) Tutorial 4 – Full Day Diverse Approaches to Systematic Searching * Farhad Shokraneh (Institute of Health Informatics, University College London) LOCATION Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) and ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and is held at the BCS Central London Office: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Ground Floor 25 Copthall Avenue London EC2R 7BP https://www.bcs.org/more/about-us/hire-our-london-office/ REGISTRATION https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/search-solutions-2022-inc-tutorials-information-retrieval-sg-tickets-433482236037 Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows: * BCS member rate: £92 * Non-member rate: £110 * Students: £80 Registration fees include lunch and a copy of the proceedings. Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening. Tutorials are payable separately. The registration fees for tutorials are as follows: * BCS member rate: £80 * Non-member rate: £95 * Students: £65 Organisers * Ingo Frommholz * Frank Hopfgartner * Udo Kruschwitz * Tony Russell-Rose * Martin White * Haiming Liu (tutorials chair) Contact For further details, contact [email protected] _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
