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… Continue reading Events: Winter
2019 Tony Kent Strix Award Lecture
John Tait FBCS, Secretary of the IRSG, attended the Tony Kent Strix Award Lecture on Friday 29 November 2019 at the Royal Geographical Society in London. This is his report of the meeting If you don’t know it, the Tony Kent Strix Award is probably the second most prestigious life time achievement award in IR… Continue reading 2019 Tony Kent Strix Award Lecture
Search Solutions 2019 – conference report
It is not easy to sit through a day of presentations on a wide range of topics and at the same time make good enough notes to prepare this detailed account of the meeting. I am grateful to Alberto Purpura for writing this excellent account. Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for presentation of… Continue reading Search Solutions 2019 – conference report
Taxonomy Bootcamp London 2019 – conference report
Helen Lippell is a highly experienced UK-based taxonomist and took on the role of Programme Chair for the inaugural event in 2016. There has been a Taxonomy Bootcamp event in the USA for some years but launching the event in the UK (especially with the ‘bootcamp’ label) was a significant commitment for Information Today Inc.… Continue reading Taxonomy Bootcamp London 2019 – conference report
Editorial
At the AGM (held during the TALMIRI conference in September) I set out an editorial policy for Informer. “My overall aim to balance academic and practitioner interests, and to present developments and achievements in as broad a range as possible of search applications. In doing so I hope that Informer will increase the membership and… Continue reading Editorial
Search Solutions conference and workshops London 25/26 November
At the time of writing the confirmed speakers are Ryan Mcdonald (Google), Matteo Venanzi (Microsoft), Allan Hanbury (contextflow and TU Wien), Nicolas Fiorini (Doctrine), Andreas Kaltenbrunner (NTENT) and Benjamin Braasch (Raytion). This year the event will be held in the new location of the BCS in Moorgate. There will also be a day of tutorials… Continue reading Search Solutions conference and workshops London 25/26 November
Diagnosing Enterprise Search
As a digital workplace consultant, I often find myself in workshops with employees to gather requirements. Invariably within a few minutes someone will say “we can never find stuff, the search is awful”, and the whole group will nod agreement. My company, ClearBox Consulting, has been working in the intranet and digital workplace space since… Continue reading Diagnosing Enterprise Search
Sheffield Information Retrieval Research Group
The Sheffield Information Retrieval Research Group is one of seven research groups of the Information School of The University of Sheffield. Research on information retrieval in Sheffield goes back as far as the 1960’s. Examples of research themes worked on over the years include the indexing and retrieval ofchemical structures (Michael Lynch), document clustering (Peter… Continue reading Sheffield Information Retrieval Research Group
The Open University at 50: a research profile
(A note from the Editor. From 2006-2008 I worked with an outstanding team (Ian Roddis, Nicky Waters and Jed Cawthorne) on the development of a new intranet and the selection of a new search application. In the course of the user interviews I realized my view of The Open University as just a distance-learning provider… Continue reading The Open University at 50: a research profile
Book Review: Information Retrieval: The Early Years
It’s time to make space on your book shelf again, as this year, quite a few interesting IR books have been published. This is a brief review on one of them: “Information Retrieval: The Early Years“, written by Donna Harman. Harman can rightly be described as one of the pioneers of IR who has influenced… Continue reading Book Review: Information Retrieval: The Early Years