One day events
Search solutions 2013. The group’s annual practitioner focused event on search. We also have tutorial day associated with the event. BCS offices Covent Garden. https://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2013/sse2013.php
Conferences/Workshops
76th Annual Meeting of ASIST. A general LIS conference with many themes on information retrieval. 1-6 November 2013, Centre Sheraton, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://asis.org/asist2013/AM2013CFP.pdf
ISMIR 2013 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of music retrieval. 4th – 8th November 2013, Curitiba, Brazil. http://ismir2013.ismir.net/ismir2013
GIR’13: 7th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of Geographical IR. Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. 5th November 2013. http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~rsp/gir13/index.html
IAT’13: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. Of interest to members working in the area of intelligent agents and search. 17-20 November 2013, Atlanta, GA, USA. http://cs.gsu.edu/wic2013/
WPRSM’13: 2013 International Workshop on Web Personalization, Recommender Systems and Social Media, joint with WI/IAT2013. A conference of interest to more user focused IR practitioners and searchers. 18 – 20 November 2013, Atlanta, Georgia. http://www.webpres-workshop.com/
MTSR 2013: 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference. Of interest to members who use meta-data in the context of search and/or search technologies. 19-22 November 2013. Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece. http://mtsr2013.teithe.gr/
SocInfo2013: The Fifth International Conference on Social Informatics. Of interest to members working in the area of Social Search. 25-27 November 2013, Kyoto, Japan. http://www.socinfo2013.org
Machine Learning with Multimedia Data: Special session at the 12th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2013). Of interest to members working in the area of machine learning and search. 4-7 December 2013, Miami, Florida, USA. http://bit.ly/mlmd-13
ADCS 2013: Australasian Document Computing Symposium. A general document focused conference with themes on search. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) 5-6 December 2013. Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. http://www.adcs2013.qut.edu.au/
AdSent 2013: The First Workshop on Internet Advertising Using Sentiment Analysis. Those members interesting in using sentiment analysis in search will find this workshop useful. 8-11 December 2014, Dallas, Texas, USA. http://amitavadas.com/ADSENT/index.html
ICADL 2013: International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries and IR. 9-11 December , 2013, Bangalore, India. http://www.isim.ac.in/icadl2013/Index.html
AIRS 2013: The Ninth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference. A general conference with a focus on Asian issues. 9-11 December 2013. Singapore. http://www.colips.org/conference/airs2013/
MMM 2014: The 20th Anniversary International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling. Of interest to members working on multimedia IR. 8 – 10 January 2014, Dublin, Ireland. http://mmm2014.org/
CLIN 2014: 24th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. 17th January 2014, Leiden, the Netherlands. http://clin24.inl.nl/
The Second Australasian Web Conference (AWC 2014). Of interest to members working in the area of web search. 20 – 23 January, 2014, Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/awc2014/
Audio Engineering Society 53rd conference on Semantic Audio. Of interest to members working on audio or music retrieval. 27-29 January 2014. London, UK. http://www.aes.org/conferences/53/
Document Recognition and Retrieval XXI (2014). A conference focusing on the artifacts of search, namely different types of documents. 4-6 February 2014, San Francisco, USA. http://drr2014.irisa.fr
WSDM2014: Seventh ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. A conference focusing on web search issues. 24 – 28 February 2014, New York City, NY, USA. http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2014
IUI 2014: 19th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Of interest to members working on UI’s in IR. 24-27 February 2014. Haifa, Israel. http://www.iuiconf.org/
iConference 2014: annual iSchools Conference. A general information conference with of relevant to the IR community. 4-7 March, 2014, Berlin, Germany. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/
SAC 2014: Information Access and Retrieval at the 29th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. A general computing conference with a track on IR. 24 – 28 March 2014, Gyeongju, Korea. http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2014/
ICMR 2014: ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia Retrieval. Glasgow, UK, 1- 4 April 2014 http://www.icmr2014.org/
SBP14: 2014 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction. Of interest to members working in the area of social search. 2-4 April 2014. UCDC Center, Washington DC, USA. http://sbp-conference.org/
WEBIST 2014: 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. A web conference with themes on web search. 3 – 5 April 2014, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.webist.org/
WWW 2014: The 23rd International World Wide Web Conference. The big web conference with various theme on search including semantic search. Seoul, Korea, 7-11 April, 2014. http://www2014.kr
ECIR 2014: The European Conference on Information Retrieval. The groups annual conference. April 13-17, 2014, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. http://www.ECIR2014.org
EACL 2014: 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. 26–30 April 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden. http://eacl2014.org/
ICAES 2014: The Second International Workshop on Informatics for Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems, held in conjunction with The 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2014). Of interest to members working in the area of context aware search. 13-16 May 2014. Victoria, BC, Canada. http://www.aina-conference.org/2014/.
LIDA 2014: Libraries in the Digital Age. Of interest to members working in the area of search in Libaries. 16–20 June 2014, University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia. http://ozk.unizd.hr/lida/
ACM TVX 2014: ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television & Online Video. Of interest to members working on video retrieval. 25th – 27th June 2014. Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK. http://tvx2014.com/
SIGIR 2014: The 37th Annual ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE. The biggest conference in the field. 6-11 July 2014. Gold Coast, Australia. http://sigir.org/sigir2014/index.php
UMAP2014: 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Of interest to members interested in the more user side of search. 7-11 July 2014, Aalborg, Denmark. http://um.org/umap2014/
ECSM 2014: European Conference on Social Media. . Of interest to members working in the area of social search. 10-11 July 2014, University of Brighton, UK. http://academic-conferences.org/ecsm/ecsm2014/ecsm14-home.htm
Summer Schools
WMPA 2014: 1st Winter School on Multimedia Processing and Applications. Of interest to members who wish to focus on multimedia search. Dublin, Ireland, January 6-8, 2014. http://winterschool.mediamixer.eu/
NASSLLI 2014: North American Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2014. A broad based conference with themes of interest to those who work in search. June 23-27 2014, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. http://nasslli2014.com/