SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2017
Wednesday 29th November
BCS London HQ, Covent Garden
*** Early Bird Registration ends October 31st***
Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for presentation of the latest innovations in search and information retrieval. In contrast to other major industry events, Search Solutions aims to be highly interactive, with attendance strictly limited.
The programme includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval.
Search Solutions also includes a Tutorial Programme on Tuesday 29th November.
This year’s event will also include the awards ceremony for the winners of the
2017 BCS Search Industry Awards.
Programme
09:30 – 10:00 Registration and coffee
SESSION 1: BEYOND KEYWORD MATCHING: SEARCHING WITH TAXONOMIES & KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS
10:00 – 10:15 Introduction
10:15 – 10:45 Edgar Meij, Bloomberg, “Semantic Search at Bloomberg”
10:45 – 11:15 Mark Fea, LexisNexis, “The Search elixir – Building, applying and harnessing taxonomies to improve search relevance”
11:15 – 11:45 BREAK
SESSION 2: NEW CHALLENGES: MISINFORMATION, FAKE NEWS & TOXIC CONTENT
11:45 – 12:15 Mark Harwood, Elastic, “Tackling toxic content with the elastic stack”
12:15 – 12:45 Anna Kolliakou, King’s College London, “Computing veracity in PHEME: trend detection and intervention for mental health”
12:45 – 13:15 Phil Bradley, Independent Consultant, “The facts about fake news”
13:15 – 14:15 LUNCH
SESSION 3: FROM SEARCH TO CONVERSATION
14:15 – 14:45 Filip Radlinski, Google, “A Theoretical Framework for Conversational Search”
14:45 – 15:15 Fabrizio Silvestri, Facebook. “Search at Facebook”
15:15 – 15:30 BREAK
SESSION 4: BEYOND WEB SEARCH
15:30 – 16:00 Nicola Cancedda, Bing/Microsoft, “Reply With: Suggesting Email Attachments”
16:00 – 16:30 Peter Cotroneo, Elsevier, “Elsevier DataSearch: The challenges of building a search engine for research data”
16:30 – 17:00 Lightning Talks (feel free to step up and present YOUR five-minute talk)
17:00 – 17:30 OUR TRADITIONAL FISHBOWL SESSION
17:30 – 17:45 IRSG SEARCH INDUSTRY AWARDS 2017
17:45 – 20:00 DRINKS RECEPTION
Location
Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS and is held at the BCS Central London Office:
BCS, 1st Floor
The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London, WC2E 7HA Map
Registration
Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) are as follows:
Early Bird Rates (until 23:59 on 31-Oct)
* BCS member rate: £99
* Non-member rate: £129
Normal Rates (from 01-Nov)
* BCS member rate: £119
* Non-member rate: £149
Registration fees include lunch and a copy of the proceedings. Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening.
For details of the tutorial programme and pricing, please refer to the Search Solutions Tutorials page.
Please register via BCS Online Registration.