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Author: Andy Macfarlane
Events Summer 2020
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ECIR 2020 – The role of knowledge in supporting IR applications
There was one very clear takeaway from ECIR 2020, a theme that to me kept occurring throughout many of the presentations at ECIR. This was the role of explicit knowledge in support applications, in particular the role of ontologies. There are many search technologies that can benefit from ontologies e.g. entity linking and recognition where… Continue reading ECIR 2020 – The role of knowledge in supporting IR applications
Creating accessible search engines for users with dyslexia
Accessibility of systems has become a significant issue for professional who deliver software products and services, and this includes search technologies. Users are often reliant on these technologies in different contexts (think of Google), and therefore accessibility of information retrieval systems is a key issue for professionals. There are many disabilities, but one which stands… Continue reading Creating accessible search engines for users with dyslexia
Events: Spring
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Events: Winter
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
Events: Autumn
One Day Events Search Solutions 2019: Out annual practitioner focused get together held on 25th and 26th November 2019. Tutorials are held on the 25th and the main event is on the 26th. A date for your diary! https://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2019/sse2019.php DIR2019: Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop 2019. A one day workshop on search. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 29 November… Continue reading Events: Autumn
Events: Summer
One Day Events Search Solutions 2019: Out annual practitioner focused get together held on 25th and 26th November 2019. Tutorials are held on the 25th and the main event is on the 26th. A date for your diary! Conferences/Workshops EPIA’2019: 18th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Includes a number of themes including a track TEMA’19:… Continue reading Events: Summer
Events: Spring
One Day Events KidRec 2019: 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children & Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems. Of interest to members working on applications targeted Children. One day workshop as part of the IDC 2019 conference 12-15 June. http://idc.acm.org/2019/
Events: Winter
One Day Events Conferences/Workshops CHIIR 2018: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Information. A conference with a very clear focus on user issues in search. 10-14 March 2019. Glasgow, Scotland. http://sigir.org/chiir2019/