Welcome to the Winter 2018 edition of Informer! Slightly later than usual, therefore we jump straight into the news section: Jochen Leidner (Director of Research at Thomson Reuters) and Frank Hopfgartner (Senior Lecturer at Sheffield University) are our new faces in the IRSG committee. Let’s give them a round of applause for their election success.… Continue reading Editorial
Category: Winter 2018
Designing search: models and metaphors
It’s often said that search is a conversation: a dialog between two participants that can be every bit as rich as human conversation. On one side is the user, with an information need articulated in the form of a query, and on the other side is the system, with its response in the form of… Continue reading Designing search: models and metaphors
Search Solutions 2017: The Misinformation Age
Fake news, misinformation and toxic content were certainly the central theme to this years annual one day Search Solutions conference at the BCS headquarters in London. There were many other great presentations of the day to discuss as, but did not have the essence of relevance of the central theme of the day. MISINFORMATION The… Continue reading Search Solutions 2017: The Misinformation Age
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)
Events – Winter 2018
One Day Events Watch out for our annual Search Solutions event in November! Conferences/Workshops IUI 2018: 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Of interest to members working on interfaces for search. 7-11 March 2018, Tokyo, Japan. http://iui.acm.org/ CHIIR 2018: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. Of interest to members working in… Continue reading Events – Winter 2018