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
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Search Solutions 2016 – Matching the IR talent supply and demand in the industry
This past November 30th 2016, the British Computer Society hosted the Search Solutions forum at its London Offices. It was divided into 5 sessions with the following themes: 1. Understanding users and context, 2. Moving towards question-answering, 3. Beyond web search, 4. New modes of search, and 5. Panel session. Particularly interesting, was the panel… Continue reading Search Solutions 2016 – Matching the IR talent supply and demand in the industry
Review of Taxonomy Boot Camp, London, Oct 2016
The first ever Taxonomy Boot Camp (TBC) this side of the Atlantic took place in London on 18th and 19th October 2016 at Kensington Olympia, organized by Information Today Ltd. As I have attended and presented at Taxonomy Boot Camp in the U.S. several times, I was keen to see what the first TBC in… Continue reading Review of Taxonomy Boot Camp, London, Oct 2016
Conference Review: Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Foraging 2016
This year, following a series of successful editions, Leibniz Centre for Informatics at Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany has, yet again, hosted The Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging (ASIRF). The event took place from the 3rd till the 8th October 2016 and was co-organised by The University of Hildesheim. The ASIRF 2016 attracted… Continue reading Conference Review: Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Foraging 2016
Conference Review: ECIR 2016
The 38th European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR), after 9 years of absence from Italy, comes back to Padua with an exceptional organisation made by the department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Padua, which did not disappoint any expectation. Padua, the learned Padua, gem of beauty and wisdom, is a city that stands… Continue reading Conference Review: ECIR 2016
First International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16)
The First International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16) was held as part of the ECIR 2016 conference in Padua (Italy) on 20 March 2016. The workshop provided an opportunity for a diverse group of stakeholders—researchers, professionals and practitioners—involved in news-related information to come together and discuss the latest and most powerful uses of… Continue reading First International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR’16)
The Future of Search – Search Solutions Conference 26th November 2015
Search Solutions 2015 took place at the British Computer Society (BCS) Headquarters at Southampton Street in Covent Garden, London, UK. The event was jointly convened with the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). The event was a sell out with over 80 attendees from business and academia. The two sessions in the morning were focused… Continue reading The Future of Search – Search Solutions Conference 26th November 2015
News Information Retrieval is calling!
News is generating renewed interest in IR prompted by the recent seismic shifts in the global newspaper industry and the changes in audience habits to consume news [1]. While printed news still makes up the better part of the global newspaper revenues, digital news is a fast growing contributor, especially in North America and Europe.
Conference Review: ECIR 2015
This year’s ECIR conference took place in Austria’s majestic, imperial capital city of Vienna. Hosted by the Information and Software Engineering Group at the Technische Universität Wien (the Vienna University of Technology), the conference ran from Sunday the 29th of March until Thursday the 2nd of April. The University itself (and consequently the recommended hotels)… Continue reading Conference Review: ECIR 2015
ECIR 2015 Industry Day
The ECIR Industry Day in 2015 in Vienna followed a new format. Past ECIR Industry Days have generally followed the format of a number of talks, mainly from search majors, in parallel with the final day of the main conference. This year the Industry Day was run after the main conference with the focus being… Continue reading ECIR 2015 Industry Day