Author: Steve Zimmerman

2023 AGM and Committee nominations

The BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group invites nominations for the following positions: – Vice Chair – Secretary – Inclusion Officer – Early Careers Advocate – Events Coordinator – 1 ordinary member of the committee Those elected will serve a two-year term commencing from the 2023 AGM which will be held on 21 November 2023 at 1800 London time after the… Continue reading 2023 AGM and Committee nominations

IRSG 2022-2023 AGM and Committee Elections

The IRSG Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place immediately after Search Solutions 2022, where the committee election results were announced.  The draft 2021 minutes can be found here, with 2021 AGM confirmed minutes found here.  The full list of current committee members is now available on the IRSG governance page.  All committee positions were filled… Continue reading IRSG 2022-2023 AGM and Committee Elections

IRSG AGM and Elections

The BCS IRSG Annual General Meeting (AGM) is scheduled to take place on Wednesday November 23rd at 6PM.  The AGM will take place immediately following the close of Search Solutions 2022, which is being held at the BCS London office at 25 Copthall Avenue London EC2R 7BP.    As with the Search Solutions conference, the… Continue reading IRSG AGM and Elections

Strix Lecture 2021 – 9 December 2021

The annual Tony Kent Strix Annual Memorial Lecture was held on December 9th. The lecture was given by the 2020 Strix Award winner Ian Ruthven (Professor, University of Strahtclyde). He delivered his journey of research over the past 20 years where attendees learned that many of his contributions were through collaborative efforts with many researchers… Continue reading Strix Lecture 2021 – 9 December 2021

IRSG 2021-2022 AGM Committee Elections

The IRSG Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place immediately after Search Solutions 2021, where the committee election results were announced.  The full list of current committee members is now available on the IRSG governance page. Incoming committee members are Tony Russell-Rose (Vice-Chair), Graham McDonald (Ordinary Committee Member) and Annalina Caputo (ECIR 2023 Committee Member). Existing… Continue reading IRSG 2021-2022 AGM Committee Elections

IRSG Committee Meeting Highlights (January 26 2021)

Greetings all. As your acting IRSG secretary, I am pleased to kick off the inaugural update from the most recent IRSG committee meeting. This will be a very brief piece highlighting key points from the meeting. Our last meeting IRSG committee meeting took place on January 26th 2021. Key action points from this meeting were

SIGIR 2018 Review

The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval took place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor July 8th – 12th 2018. As usual, the conference was highly competitive, with a 21% acceptance rate for long papers! For the first time, China surpassed the USA with most accepted papers.… Continue reading SIGIR 2018 Review

Search Solutions 2017: The Misinformation Age

Fake news, misinformation and toxic content were certainly the central theme to this years annual one day Search Solutions conference at the BCS headquarters in London. There were many other great presentations of the day to discuss as, but did not have the essence of relevance of the central theme of the day. MISINFORMATION The… Continue reading Search Solutions 2017: The Misinformation Age

ECIR 2017 Industry Day Review

The tradition of closing out ECIR with industry day continued for its 11th year in Aberdeen, Scotland.  This year’s event was co-organized and moderated by Udo Kruschwitz and Tony Russell-Rose.  For those who made the trip up north, a potpourri of exciting applications of academic research in IR and NLP was presented, including event detection… Continue reading ECIR 2017 Industry Day Review