To start with IRSG affairs, our Chairman Udo Kruschwitz comments on some aspects of the very successful ECIR 2023 conference and our Secretary, Steven Zimmerman has an update on Committee Membership following the 2022 AGM held in November following the Search Solutions 2022 event. The ECIR 2023 conference was a great success, and there are… Continue reading In the April issue
Category: Spring 2023
The Editor's in-tray
A small miscellany of search-related items that have arrived in my in-tray recently that you might be interested in Microsoft Search Hero Mastermind Group This is a new and very enterprising training course for Microsoft search managers that has a mix of tuition and mentoring spread out over a three month period. The course has… Continue reading The Editor's in-tray
CIKM 2023 Birmingham 21-25 October 2023
The 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) will be held in Birmingham on 21-25 October. The last time this conference was held in Europe was 2018! It is not a BCS event but many members of IRSG are involved in the event. The General Chairs are Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton,… Continue reading CIKM 2023 Birmingham 21-25 October 2023
Search Solutions 2023 London, 21/22 November
A mark-your-diary item for the annual Search Solutions 2023 conference. It will be held at the BCS London office in Moorgate and will be on-site only. Tuesday 21 will be Tutorials Day and Wednesday 22 will be Conference Day. There will be call for papers and tutorials in early May and this will be posted… Continue reading Search Solutions 2023 London, 21/22 November
Karen Spärck Jones (KSJ) Award – 2023 timeline for nominations
Professor Jochen Leidner, the current chair of Karen Spärck Jones (KSJ) Award, presented the trophy to the 2022 KSJ award winner, Professor William Wang, who delivered his keynote presentation at ECIR 2023. Since Jochen has chaired three years of the KSJ Award, and 2022 is the last year of his term I am now the… Continue reading Karen Spärck Jones (KSJ) Award – 2023 timeline for 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
Academia and the Enterprise – Steve Zimmerman
Academia and the Enterprise It is an honour to be asked by a highly respected contributor to the enterprise search community to share my journey from academia into the enterprise. Admittedly, it has been an unusual journey, so perhaps it’s best to say a bit about where things are at the exact moment before… Continue reading Academia and the Enterprise – Steve Zimmerman
Alan Turing Institute Conference on LLMs February 2023 – a historical perspective?
This symposium, organized by the Alan Turing Institute, was held at the IET, Savoy Place on 23 February and attracted around 350 delegates, including what seemed to be the entire UK machine learning research community. There were seven presentations and a panel session that I was not able to stay for. (Note from the Editor. Two… Continue reading Alan Turing Institute Conference on LLMs February 2023 – a historical perspective?
ECIR 2023 Industry Day
The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) seems to have emerged from the pandemic stronger than ever. This year, in Dublin, saw the highest number of attendees ever, I’m told, at over 380 in-person and virtual attendees. I’m not a computing academic, so I don’t sit through the academic presentations, but the last day of… Continue reading ECIR 2023 Industry Day
Call for proposals for IRSG one-day events in 2023
The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) of the BCS invites proposals for the organisation of one day events supported by BCS. Proposals will be evaluated based on the organisational and financial plans and benefits to the Information Retrieval community. Important dates * Submission deadline for this round: 19-May-2023 * Notification: 02-Jun-2023