A one-day online workshop on Fairness and Bias in Information Retrieval will take place on 23 March 2021.The workshop will bring together practitioners from academia and industry to discuss the challenges relating to fairness in information retrieval (IR) that are faced by industry, and the recent advances in fair IR research. The workshop should have… Continue reading Fairness and Bias in Information Retrieval 23 March 2021
Category: Events
Events Winter 2021
Note: Due to the COVID-19 crisis some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
ECIR 2021 March 28 to April 1
ECIR 2021, the 43rd edition of the annual BCS-IRSG European Conference on Information Retrieval will be held in Lucca from March 28 to April 1, 2021. ECIR is the premier European forum for the presentation of new research results in the broadly conceived area of Information Retrieval (IR), and has a strong focus on the… Continue reading ECIR 2021 March 28 to April 1
Search Solutions 2020 24/25 November
The Search Solutions conference will take place virtually on Wednesday 25 November. The programme can be found on the conference website. The conference will be preceded by a day of workshops on Tuesday 24 November. With the Strix Award event taking place on Thursday 26 November it will be quite a searching week.
Strix Lecture 26 November 2020
The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) is pleased to announce that the 6th Tony Kent Strix Annual Memorial Lecture 2020 is to be delivered by the 2019 Strix award winner Professor Ingemar J. Cox, Department of Computer Science at University College London. It will take place online from 2 pm to 4.30 pm Thursday, 26th… Continue reading Strix Lecture 26 November 2020
ECIR 2021 – planning for a virtual conference
The 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval will be held in Lucca, Italy on March 28 to April 1, 2021 though the decision has been taken to run it as a virtual event. ECIR 2020 was run as a virtual event at short notice and was a great success. Lessons learned from ECIR 2020 will… Continue reading ECIR 2021 – planning for a virtual conference
Events Autumn 2020
Note: Due to the COVID-19 crisis some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
Call for Online Tutorials: Search Solutions 2020
Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual event focused on practitioner issues in the area of Search and Information Retrieval. We invite proposals which focus on any area of the practical application of search technologies to real world problems, for the tutorial day due to take place the day after Search Solutions… Continue reading Call for Online Tutorials: Search Solutions 2020
Taxonomy Boot Camp 2020 Awards
There’s still time to make a nomination for London’s Taxonomy Boot Camp 2020 Awards which highlight practitioners and organisations working with taxonomies today. In a year that has presented everyone with new challenges, the organisers are keen to showcase the great work being done by those in the taxonomy community, particularly examples of creativity, determination… Continue reading Taxonomy Boot Camp 2020 Awards
Strix Annual Memorial Lecture 26 November 2020
The Strix Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Ingemar Cox, Head of Media Futures Research Group at University College London and a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. His current research interests include information retrieval and data analytics of online social media, twitter and query logs. The Lecture… Continue reading Strix Annual Memorial Lecture 26 November 2020