One Day Events
Search Solutions 2017. The annual practioner focused event for the IRSG held at the BCS offices in Covent Garden, together with a tutorial day on 28 November 2017, with the main event on 29th November 2017. https://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2017/sse2017.php
Conferences/Workshops
ISM2017: 19th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia. Of interest to members working in the area of Multimedia search. 11-13 December 2017, Taichung, Taiwan. http://ism2017.asia.edu.tw/
IHCI 2017: 9th International Conference on Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction. Of interest to members working in the area of user interaction and search. 11-13 December 2017, Evry, France. http://ihci2017.sciencesconf.org
CLiC-it 2017: Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. 11-13 December, 2017, Rome, Italy. http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/clic2017
IEEE Big Data 2017: IEEE International Conference on Big Data. Of interest to members working in the area of big data and search. 11-14 December 2017, Boston, MA, USA. http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/
ICPRAM 2018: 7th Int.l Conf. on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods. Of interest to members working with pattern recognition algorithms in search. 16-18 January 2018. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. http://www.icpram.org/
AIUCD 2018 Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age – Memory, Humanities and Technologies. Of interest to members working in the area of cultural heritage and search. 31st January – 2nd February 2018. Bari, Italy. http://www.aiucd2018.uniba.it/
ICSC 2018: 12th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing. Of interest to members working in the area of semantic search. 31 January – 2 February 2018. Laguna Hills, California, USA. https://semanticcomputing.wixsite.com/icsc2018
WSDM 2018: The 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. Of interest to members working in the area of web search. 5-9 February 2018, Los Angeles, California, USA. http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2018/
MMM 2018: The 24th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling. A conference with a theme on multimedia search. 5-7 February 2018 at Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. http://mmm2018.chula.ac.th/
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 the area of user interaction with search. 11-15 March 2018, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. http://sigir.org/chiir2018/
TEI 2018: Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions. Of interest to members working in the area of pervasive IR. 18–21 March, Stockholm, Sweden. https://tei.acm.org/2018/
IoTBDS 2018: 3rd Int.l Conf. on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security. A conference with several themes on search. March 19 – 21, 2018. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. http://iotbds.org/
ICEIS 2018: 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of Enterprise Search. 21 – 24 March 2018. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. http://www.iceis.org/
iConference 2018: 25-28 March 2018, University of Sheffield. A general information conference with themes relevant to search. http://ischools.org/the-iconference/call-for-participation/
ECIR 2018: 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval. The groups annual conference. 26-29 March 2018. Grenoble, France. https://www.ecir2018.org/
LATA 2018: 12th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications. A conference with several themes on search, including theory and pattern matching. 8-12 April 2018. Bar-Ilan near Tel Aviv, Israel. http://grammars.grlmc.com/LATA2018/
ACM SAC 2018: 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. A conference with several themes on search. 9-13 April 2018, Pau, France. http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2018/
ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2018: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation. Of interest to members working in the area of ubiquitous search. 17-20 April 2018. Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. http://conferences.computer.org/IoTDI/
Algorithms, Automation and News conference. Of interest to members working in the area of search and news. 22–23 May 2018, Munich, Germany. http://algorithmic.news
IEEE IVMSP 2018, Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing. Of interest to members working in the area of either image or video search. 10-12 June Zagori, Aristi Village, Greece. http://www.ivmsp2018.org
ACM ICMR 2018: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia IR. 11-14 June 2018, Yokohama, Japan. http://www.icmr2018.org/
ACM TVX 2018: ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video. Of interest to members working in the area of Video search. 26-28 June 2018, Seoul, Republic of Korea. https://tvx.acm.org/2018/
UMAP 18: 26th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Of interest to members working in the area of context and search. 8 – 11 July 2018. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. http://www.um.org/umap2018/
SIGIR 2018: The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. The major conference on IR research. 8-12 July 2018, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. http://sigir.org/sigir2018
ACM HYPERTEXT 2018: 29th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2018. Of interest to members working in the area of Hypertext and Search. 9-12 July 2018, Baltimore, USA. https://ht.acm.org/ht2018/
ICDM 2018: 18th Industrial Conference on Data Mining. Of interest to members working in the area of big data and search. 11–15 July 2018, New York, USA. http://www.data-mining-forum.de/icdm2018.php
DESIRES 2018: 1st Biennial Conference on Design of Experimental Search and Information Retrieval Systems. A conference focusing on innovation and search. 28-31 August 2018
Bertinoro, Italy. http://desires.dei.unipd.it/
SC 2018: The Spatial Cognition Conference 2018. Of interest to members working with spatial cognition and search. 5-8 September 2018, Tuebingen, Germany. http://sites.psu.edu/sc2018/
First cross-domain IFIP Internet of Things (IoT) Conference. Of interest to members working in the areas of pervasive or mobile search. 18-20 September 2018, Poznań, Poland. http://wcc2018.put.poznan.pl/
ISIC 2018: 12th Information Seeking in Context conference. Of interest to members working in the area of interaction and search. 9-11 October 2018, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. http://www.isic2018.com/
Summer and Autumn Schools