Search Solutions 2024 Wednesday 27 November 2024, London
Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s (BCS IRSG) annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval (IR). 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. The event consists of a Tutorial day (26 November) and a Conference day (27 November), each of which has a separate registration.The conference day includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. 09:30 - 09:50 Registration and coffee SESSION 1: THE SEARCH EXPERIENCE: FOCUS ON THE USER 09:50 - 10:00 Introduction 10:00 - 10:20 Tanja Svarre (University of Aalborg) “People search in the enterprise” 10:20 - 10:40 Eugene Morozov (ISKO) “Search and Browse Use Cases in Data Governance” 10:40 - 10:55 Panel Q&A 10:55 - 11:10 BREAK SESSION 2: BEYOND KEYWORD SEARCH: RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION 11:10 - 11:30 Dyaa Albakour (SIGNAL AI) “Mapping the landscape of narratives in Global Media” 11:30 - 11:50 Alessandro Benedetti (Sease) “What I don’t like about RAG: can we do better?” 11:50 - 12:10 Taketomo Isazawa (Microsoft Research) “Beyond RAG: Integrating Knowledge with LLMs” 12:10 - 12:25 Panel Q&A 12:25 - 13:30 LUNCH SESSION 3: SEARCH WITH AN IMPACT: SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS 13:30 - 13:50 Maria-Inti Metzendorf (Cochrane Evidence Synthesis Unit Düsseldorf) “Searching for Living Systematic Reviews – overview and case report” 13:50 - 14:10 James Thomas (UCL) “The responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis: collaborative development of guidance and recommendations” 14:10 - 14:25 Panel Q&A 14:25 - 14:40 BREAK SESSION 4: SEARCH IN INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS: GETTING IT RIGHT 14:40 - 15:00 Gabriella Kazai (Amazon) “What Matters in a Measure? A Perspective from Large-Scale Search Evaluation” 15:00 - 15:20 Charlie Hull (OpenSource Connections) “Measure and Tune your Search with User Behaviour Insights” 15:20 - 15:40 Daniel Tunkelang (Consultant) & Aritra Mandal (eBay) “Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents” 15:40 - 15:55 Panel Q&A 15:55 - 16:30 BREAK 16:30 - 17:15 PANEL SESSION Panel topic: “Has generative AI removed the need for standalone search? A discussion” Panel chair: Michael Upshall (The Search Network) 17:15 - 17:25 BCS SEARCH INDUSTRY AWARDS 17:25 - 17:30 Closing words 17:30 EVENING RECEPTION 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/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/ REGISTRATION Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows: * BCS / ISKO member rate: £92 * Non-member rate: £110 * Students: £80 Registration fees include lunch. Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening. Register here: https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2024/november/search-solutions-2024-information-retrieval-sg/ TUTORIAL DAY Search Solutions also includes a Tutorial Programme on Tuesday, 26 November. A detailed programme will be announced in due course. A Call for Tutorials can be found here: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/conferences-and-events/search-solutions/search-solutions-2024/search-solutions-2024-call-for-tutorials/ Tutorials are payable separately. PAST EVENTS Search Solutions has been held annually since 2007. For details of past events please see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/conferences-and-events/search-solutions/ _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
