I came across the ECIR2020 conference due to my will to learn more about search, information-seeking behaviour and information retrieval. I would like to share my experience in my first time attending such an important event. In the first place, the website was well design to facilitate people to find the registration and the structure… Continue reading ECIR2020 – A view from Peru
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Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval – BIR 2020 10th Anniversary Edition at Home
Searching for scientific data and literature is a long-lived user need as academic search defines a complex task for IR researchers. IR veterans like Salton were already trying to enhance the retrieval process by including clues inferred from bibliographic citations. The development of citation indexes pioneered by Garfield proved determinant for such a research endeavour… Continue reading Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval – BIR 2020 10th Anniversary Edition at Home
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
Tony Kent Strix Award Lecture 2020
This is an advance notice of the 6th Tony Kent Strix Annual Memorial 2020 Lecture. This is currently scheduled for 22 November. The speaker will be Professor Ingemar Cox, UCL (winner of the 2019 Award) and the venue will be the Library of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
Book review: Project management for IT-related projects
Frequent readers of the BCS IRSG Informer newsletter will be familiar with our series of reviews of books covering recent advances in information retrieval and related areas. Today, we are widening our focus slightly by providing a review of a book on a more general aspect of IT. The first book of choice is the… Continue reading Book review: Project management for IT-related projects
And finally…from the Editor
All these contributions about ECIR 2020 have taken me back to what I am reasonably sure was the first UK conference on text retrieval. It was entitled Computer Packages for Information Storage and Retrieval and took place at the Royal Society in Carlton House Terrace on 12-13 November 1979. It was organised by the Institute… Continue reading And finally…from the Editor
Contributors
Ingo Frommholz is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Bedfordshire. He received his PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen in October 2008. Prior to joining the University of Bedfordshire in 2011 he worked at Fraunhofer IPSI in Darmstadt, Germany, at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany and at the University of… Continue reading Contributors
Call for book reviews (Winter 2018)
Keeping up with the tradition of book reviews, we again seek reviewers for a number of recently published books in the fields of information and data science. As always, books will be allocated for review on a first-come-first-served basis and you would have about one month to carry out the review. If you are interested… Continue reading Call for book reviews (Winter 2018)