Forthcoming Events
Edited By Andy MacFarlane
One day events
Search Solutions 2014. Our annual one day practioner focused event, with a tutorial day. 26, 27 November 2014.
Conferences/Workshops
SocialCom 2014: The 7th ASE International Conference on Social Computing. Of interest to members working in the area of social search. 4-7 August 2014, Beijing, China, http://socialcom2014beijing.scienceengineering.org/
WIC 2014: The 2014 Web Intelligence Congress. Of interest to members working in the area of Web Search, personalisation, recommendation and social media. 11-14 August 2014, Warsaw, Poland. http://wic2014.mimuw.edu.pl/
ASONAM ’14: The 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining. Of interest to members working in the area of Social Search. 17-20 August 2014, Beijing China. http://www.asonam2014.org/
COLING 2014: 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working on NLP and IR. 23-29 August 2014, Helix Convention Centre at Dublin City University (DCU). http://www.coling-2014.org/
IIiX 2014: 5th Information Interaction in Context Conference. Of interest to members working in the user aspects of search. 26-29 August, 2014, Regensburg, Germany. http://iiix2014.ur.de/
MobiWIS 2014: 11th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems. Of interested to members working in the area of mobile search. 27-29 August 2014, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.mobiwis.org/2014/
Hypertext 2014 – 25th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. This is of interest to members working in the area of navigation and search. 1-4 Sept. 2014, Santiago, Chile. http://ht.acm.org/ht2014/
DEXA 2014: 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications. A database conference with themes on text retrieval, plus TIR’14: 11th International Workshop on Text-Based Information Retrieval. 1-5 September 2014, Munich, Germany. http://www.dexa.org/
ISIC 2014: the Information Behaviour Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of information seeking. 2-5 September 2014, Leeds. http://isic2014.com/
MMAP’14/ ASIR’14: 7th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing AND 4th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of Multimedia Search or Semantic Search. 7-10 September 2014, Warsaw, Poland. http://fedcsis.org/mmap AND http://fedcsis.org/asir
Information Retrieval 2014 Workshop. A workshop run by the German Computer Society – in German. 8-10 September 2014, University of Aachen, Germany. http://fg-retrieval.gi.de/
JCDL 2014/TPDL 2014: Digital Libraries 2014 – ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries AND International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of Digital Libraries and Search. 8-12th September 2014, London. http://www.dl2014.org/
TSD 2014: 17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. 8-12th September 2014, Brno, Czech Republic. http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2014/
EuroHCIR 2014: 4th European Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval. A short symposium on HCI issues in IR. 12-13 September 2014, BCS Offices Covent Garden. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~mlw/euroHCIR2014/
SIMBig’2014: 1st Symposium on Information Management and Big Data. Of interest to members working in the area of very large search problems. 8-10th September 2014, Cusco, Peru. http://www.lirmm.fr/simbig2014/
ECLM/PKDD 2014: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of KD in databases. Of interest to members working in machine learning and search. 15-19 September 2014, Nancy, France. http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/
#di2014: International Conference on Digital Intelligence. A conference with many themes including social media of interest to members. 17-19 September 2014, Nantes, France. http://www.di2014.org/
IDIMC 2014: International Data and Information Management Conference. Of interest working in the area of information science and searching. 17 September 2014. Loughborough. http://idimc.org/
FoRESSE: 1st International Workshop on Future search Engines. Interested in the future of search – then this is for you! 22nd September 2014. Stuttgart, Germany. http://foresee.unister.de/
#SMSocity14: 2013 Social Media & Society Conference. Of interest to members working on social search. 27-28 September 2014. Toronto, Canada. http://socialmediaandsociety.com/
RecSys 2014: ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems. Recommender Systems are the focus of this particular conference. 6-10 October 2014, Foster City, Silicon Valley, California. http://recsys.acm.org/recsys14/
ICIC 2014: international conference on Trends for Scientific Information Professionals. Of particular interest to members working in areas such as patent searching. 12-15 October 2014, Heildelberg, Germany. http://www.haxel.com/icic/2014
SLSP 2014: 2nd International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing. Of interest to members working in the areas of statstics as applied to search. 14-16 October 2014, Grenoble, France. http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/
SPIRE 2014/LA-Web 2014: 9th Latin American Web Congress. Of interest to members working in web search. 20-24 October 2014, Ouro Preto, Brazil. http://www.decom.ufop.br/Spire-La-Web2014/
KDIR 2014: 6th International conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of knowledge management and search. 21-24 October 2014, Rome, Italy. http://www.kdir.ic3k.org/
ISMIR 2014: The 15th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of music search. 27-31 October 2014. Taipai, Taiwan. http://www.terasoft.com.tw/conf/ismir2014/
BigData 2014: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. Of interest to members working in the area of large dataset search. 27-30 October 2014, Washington DC, USA. http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2014/index.htm
77th ASIST Annual Meeting: Connecting Collections, Cultures and Communites. Of interest to members working more in the area of information science and search. 31 October 2014 to 4 November 2014, Seattle, USA. http://www.asis.org/asist2014/
CIKM 2014: 23rd ACM international Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. Has various themes including one on information retrieval. 3-7 November 2014. Shanghai, China. http://cikm2014.fudan.edu.cn/
ACM Multimedia 2014: 22nd ACM international conference on Multimedia. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia and search. 3-7 November 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://acmmm.org/2014/
Academic Mindtrek Conference 2014. A wider ranging conference with many themes of interest to members including social media and HCI. 4-7 November 2014, Tampare, Finland. https://sites.google.com/site/academicmindtrekconference2014/
ICADL 2014: 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries. 5-7 November 2014, Chaing Mai, Thailand. http://icadl2014.cmu.ac.th/
SMAP 2014: 9th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization. Of interest to members working on social search. Corfu, Greece, 6-7 November 2014. http://www.smap2014.org/
SocInfo’14: The 6th International Conference on Social Informatics. Social Search is an interest these days, and this is a good forum for this type of work. 10-13 November 2014, Barcelona, Spain. http://socinfo2014.org/
i-Society 2014: International conference on Information Society. A broader information science conference, of interest to members working more in that area. 10-12 November 2014, London Heathrow Marriott Hotel. http://www.i-society.eu/
3rd Open Interdisciplinary MUMIA Conference and IRFC2014. A multidisciplinary scientific forum for researchers in information retrieval. 10-12 November 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://www.irfc2014.aau.dk/
MTSR 2014: 8th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research. Of interest to members working in the area of knowledge organisation and search. 27-29 November 2014, Karlsruche, Germany. http://www.ionio.gr/labs/dbis/mtsr2014/
AIRS 2014: 10th Asia Information Retrieval Society Conference. An annual conference on information retrieval held in Asia.3-5 December 2014. Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. http://airs2014.pecamp.org/
ICMLA 2014: International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications. Of interested to members working in the area of machine learning and search. 3-6 December 2014, Deriot, MI, USA. http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla14/
MMM2015: The 21st Multimedia Modelling Conference. Of interest to members working in multimedia IR. 5-7 January 2-15, Sydney, Australia. http://www.mmm2015.org/
DRR 2015:Document Recognition and Retrieval XXII. A Conference devoted to document analysis, recognition and retrieval. 11-12 February 2015, San Francisco, USA. http://nlp.cs.byu.edu/drr2015/index.shtml
ECIR 2015: The 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval. The groups annual conference. 29th March – 2nd April 2015, Vienna Austria. http://ecir2015.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/wp/
IUI 2015: 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Of interest to members working on interfaces and search. 29th March – 2nd April 2015.Atlanta, GA, USA. http://iui.acm.org/2015/
BigMM2015: 1st International Conference on Multimedia Big Data. Of interest to members working on large multimedia search problems. 20-22 April 2015, Beijing, China. http://www.bigmm2015.org/
ICAES15: Third International Workshop on Intelligent Context-Aware Enterprise Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of context and search.13-16 May 2015. Gwangju, South Korea, https://sites.google.com/site/icaes15/
Summer Schools
RuSSIR 2014: 8th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval. An annual summer school in Russia on IR. 18-22 August 2014.Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. http://russir.org
Information Foraging and Retrieval Autumn School. An IR summer school held in German. 21-26 September 2014, Dagstuhl, Germany. https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute/iwist/veranstaltungen/asirf/