INNOVATIONS IN SEARCH AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - BCS SEARCH SOLUTIONS - LONDON, UK
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, each of which has a separate registration. LOCATION Both the Tutorials and the Conference take place at the BCS London Headquarters in London, UK, Ground Floor, 25 Copthall Avenue EC2R 7BP. This is a 10 minute walk from Liverpool Street Station (Elizabeth Line and London Underground) and a 20 minute walk from London Bridge Station. Registration forms on Eventbrite Tutorials: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/search-solutions-2023-tutorials-tickets-739261911277 Conference: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/search-solutions-2023-conference-tickets-739298691287 TUTORIALS Tutorial 1 November 21, 10am-2pm (half day) How Large Language Models Can Improve Your Search Project (Half-day) Alessandro Benedetti, Sease Ltd. Apache Lucene/Solr committer and PMC member and Director and R&D Software Engineer Tutorial 2 November 21, 10am-4.30pm (full day) Uncertainty Quantification for Text Classification (Full Day) Dell Zhang, Thomson Reuters Labs, London, UK. Murat Sensoy, Amazon Alexa AI, London, UK. Lin Gui, King’s College London, London UK Yulan He, King’s College London & Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME OUTLINE November 22, 2023 9.45am - 7pm The objective of the conference this year is to explore the implications and opportunities of AI-based technologies in enhancing the user experience in enterprise, e-commerce and systematic search. The conference marks the first anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT on 30 November 2022. 09.45 Introductions 09.55 Understanding the Dangers of using LLMs. Professor Julie Weeds, University of Sussex 10.30 Using AI tools for discovery Hong Zhou Wiley Scientific 11.00 Break 11.20 IR, AI and ‘search’ – Creating synergy Steve Zimmerman, Samy Ateia and Martin White consider the opportunities and the issues, with the assistance of the audience! 12.20 BCS Search Industry Awards – Introduction Tony Russell-Rose 12.30 Panel Session looking back at the morning presentations 13.00 Lunch 13.45 Pragmatic AI-powered Search – Keeping it Simple, not Stupid. Charlie Hull Open Source Connections 14.15 Retrieval-augmented text generation (RAG) for legal IR Grace Lee 14.45 Ontologies in the age of AI-based discovery Peter Winstanley 15.15 Break 15.50 Presentation of the BCS Search Industry Awards 16.00 New technologies for systematic reviews: are large language models really a gamechanger? James Thomas 16.30 Integrating ChatGPT into existing applications Paul Cleverley 17.00 Panel session – agreeing the take-aways from the conference 17.30 SS2023 Best Paper Award 17.45 Reception 19.00 Close For further details and enquiries, please contact [email protected]. -- Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, FBCS, FHEA Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science ACM CIKM 2023 General Chair Head of Data, AI, Interaction, Retrieval and Language Group http://dairel.org Deputy Head Digital Innovations and Solutions Centre (DISC) University of Wolverhampton, UK Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: [email protected] Twitter: @iFromm | Mastodon: @[email protected] PGP/GPG fingerprint: B74E A422 C7B2 A5BB 2BC2 523B 2790 216E F8F8 D166 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2790216EF8F8D166 _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
