The 11th Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval Workshop (BIR 2021) was held online on April 1st, 2021, at ECIR 2021 as virtual event only for the 2nd time due to the pandemic situation. As before, the aim of the interdisciplinary BIR workshop series is to bring together researchers from different communities, especially scientometrics/bibliometrics and information retrieval. In… Continue reading Another BIR Please — Report of the 11th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
Author: Ingo Frommholz
The BIRDS were flying again – Bridging Gaps at CHIIR 2021
Can Data Science, Information Science, Information Retrieval and Human-Computer Interaction get together and learn from each other? Bringing together these different communities is the aim of the BIRDS workshop. While in Information Retrieval we learnt over the last decades how to meld user- and system-oriented approaches, one of the questions is how we can make… Continue reading The BIRDS were flying again – Bridging Gaps at CHIIR 2021
Search Solutions 2020 – Tutorial Report
On 24th November 2020, a day before the Search Solutions main event, a Search Solutions tutorial on Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval was given by Alexander Kuhnle, Miguel Aroca-Ouellette, John Reid and Dell Zhang from Blue Prism AI Labs. Reinforcement Learning (RL), as a third machine learning paradigm besides supervised and unsupervised learning, is gaining… Continue reading Search Solutions 2020 – Tutorial Report
BCS IRSG Search Solutions 2020 goes virtual and CfP
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. Search Solutions 2020 will be an online event taking place on November 23, 2020. Search Solutions will consist of invited talks, but we also invite proposals for 30-minute presentations … Continue reading BCS IRSG Search Solutions 2020 goes virtual and CfP
Free as the BIRDS — Bridging the Gap between Information Science, Information Retrieval and Data Science
BIRDS is an interdisciplinary workshop for students, practitioners and researchers in Data Science, Information Retrieval and Information Science held at SIGIR 2020. The aim of BIRDS was to foster the cross-fertilization of Information Science (IS), Information Retrieval (IR) and Data Science (DS). The idea behind BIRDS was the observation that all disciplines operate in the… Continue reading Free as the BIRDS — Bridging the Gap between Information Science, Information Retrieval and Data Science
Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval – BIR 2020 10th Anniversary Edition at Home
Searching for scientific data and literature is a long-lived user need as academic search defines a complex task for IR researchers. IR veterans like Salton were already trying to enhance the retrieval process by including clues inferred from bibliographic citations. The development of citation indexes pioneered by Garfield proved determinant for such a research endeavour… Continue reading Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval – BIR 2020 10th Anniversary Edition at Home
Conference Review: Information Foraging and Retrieval Autumn School
Following the tradition of past successful Information Foraging Summer Schools and the German Information Retrieval Autumn School, the Autumn School 2014 for Information Foraging and Retrieval took place from September 21-26, 2014, at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany. It was co-organized by the German Information Retrieval Specialist Group and Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The… Continue reading Conference Review: Information Foraging and Retrieval Autumn School
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… Continue reading Musing on the theory of it all — ICTIR 2013
IR Made In Germany – The German IR Special Interest Group
Introduction – IR Made In Germany 2012 marked an exciting year for the German Information Retrieval community, when for the first time ever with Norbert Fuhr a German was awarded the prestigious Gerard Salton Award. Besides being a well-deserved personal award, this brings with it a nice appreciation of the work performed by the German… Continue reading IR Made In Germany – The German IR Special Interest Group