There are many books about knowledge management but very few about what I might refer to as IKM (Information and Knowledge Management) technologies. What is distinctive about this book is that it spans the crevasse between KM and IT and does so with considerable flair. The authors, Zach Wahl and Joseph Hilger established Enterprise Knowledge (based in Arlington VA) close… Continue reading Making knowledge management clickable – Book review
Category: Summer 2022
SIGIR 2022 Annual Conference – a report from Dennis Aumiller
Another month, another conference back in person! The ACM SIGIR 2022 conference – the special interest group’s premier event – was back in person for the first time since 2019, and for the first time ever made its stop in beautiful and sunny Spain. Hosted by general chairs Enrique Amigó, Pablo Castells and Julio Gonzalo,… Continue reading SIGIR 2022 Annual Conference – a report from Dennis Aumiller
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020) – a report from Dennis Aumiller
With a delay of over two years, attendees of the bi-annual Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2022 (LREC) finally arrived in sunny Marseille. After originally scheduled for May 2020, but then being canceled due to travel restrictions and nation-wide lockdowns, the organizers decided to revive the original conference location and agreed on the currently predominant… Continue reading Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2020) – a report from Dennis Aumiller
Reflections on ECIR 2022 by Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nørvag and Vinay Setty
Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nørvag and Vinay Setty have authored a detailed review of the very successful ECIR 2022 event held in Stavanger, Norway, in April. The review, which is published in the June 2022 issue of SIGIR Forum, runs to 12 pages. To quote from the Conclusion “One of the biggest organizational challenges was dealing… Continue reading Reflections on ECIR 2022 by Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nørvag and Vinay Setty
ACM Transactions on Information Systems – call for papers on neural information retrieval
The ACM TOIS journal is planning a special issue in 2023 on efficiency on neural information retrieval. The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2022 To quote from the ACM announcement
Funnelback and Me: Celebrating 30 Years of Funnelback Technology 1991-2021 – Book review
I expect that most readers of Informer will have read the 2011 edition of Modern Information Retrieval edited by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Riberio-Neto. It runs to almost 900 pages. Chapter 15 is a brilliant essay by David Hawking which sums up everything you should know about enterprise search in 40 pages. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research… Continue reading Funnelback and Me: Celebrating 30 Years of Funnelback Technology 1991-2021 – Book review
Search Solutions 2022 London 23/24 November
Search Solutions 2022 returns to being on on-site conference this year at the BCS HQ in London (25 Copthall Avenue London, EC2R 7BP) though there could be some remote contributions from speakers facing challenges of predictable flight schedules and sensible fares. The Conference will be held on Thursday 24 November, with a day of Tutorials… Continue reading Search Solutions 2022 London 23/24 November
Events Summer 2022
Note from compiler Andy Macfarlane – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic 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.
And finally….from the Editor
The quarterly Informer newsletter has been published by IRSG for almost 30 years, initially as a PDF and since 2012 as a web journal using a WordPress platform. Throughout its history it has been a channel of record for conferences and other events and a means of alerting members to forthcoming events, constantly trying to… Continue reading And finally….from the Editor