Events Summer 2012

Forthcoming Events

Edited By Andy MacFarlane

Conferences/Workshops

  1. ACM SIGIR 2012. The worlds top IR conference. Portland,  Oregon, USA, 12th – 16th August 2012. http://www.sigir.org/sigir2012/
  2. IIiX 2012. The biannual conference on Information interaction in Context. Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 21-24th August 2012. http://iiix2012.org/
  3. 2nd International Conference ïn Integrated Information (IC-ININFO 2012). A general conference on information of interest to members with a wide scope. Budapest, Hungary, August 30-September 3, 2012. http://www.icininfo.net/
  4. 38th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2012). Of interest to members working in the area of music search. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 9-15 September 2012.  http://www.icmc2012.si/
  5. ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) 2012. Of interest to members working on Recommender systems. Dublin, Ireland, 9-13 September 2012. http://recsys.acm.org/2012/
  6. Information Retrieval 2012. A workshop arranged by Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Computing Society). Technical University Dortmund, Germany, 12-14 September 2012. http://lwa2012.cs.tu-dortmund.de/index.html
  7. 15th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-12). Of interest to members working in the area of audio search, including music and speech. University of York, UK, 17th-21st September, 2012. http://dafx12.york.ac.uk/call4papers.html
  8. 16th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2012). Of interest to members working in the area of Digital Libraries. Cyprus, 23-27 September 2012. http://www.tpdl2012.org/index.php
  9. International Workshop on Search Computing. A wide ranging workshop on search in computing and the different aspects of it. Cyprus, 25-26 September 2012. http://www.avmediasearch.eu/searchcomputing
  10. 6th International Workshop on Information Filtering and Retrieval: novel distributed systems and applications (DART 2012). Of interest to members working in the area of filtering and recommendation. A sateliate workshop of KDD 2012. Barcelona, Spain, 5th-6th October 2012. http://www.ic3k.org/DART.aspx
  11. 13th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2012). Of interest to members working in the area of music search. Porto, Portugal, 8th-12th October 2012. http://ismir2012.ismir.net/
  12. The Latin-American Conference on Networked Electronic Media (LACNEM 2012). A general conference on the web with a theme on search. Santiago de Chile, Chile, 17-19 October 2012. http://www.lacnem.org/
  13. 19th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2012). A general conference which as a duel focus on string processing and IR. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 21 – 25 October 2012. http://spire2012.unab.edu.co
  14. 8th Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB 2012). A general conference on the web with a theme on search. Cartagena, Colombia, 25 – 27 October 2012. http://laweb2012.unab.edu.co/
  15. 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012). A conference on both information and knowledge management, with a theme on IR. Sheraton, Maui, Hawaii, 29th October to 2nd November 2012. http://www.cikm2012.org/
  16. ACM Multimedia 2012 (acmmm 2012). A conference on multimedia of interest to members working in Multimedia IR. There is also a workshop on social aware multimedia. Nara, Japan. 29th October to 2nd November 2012. http://www.acmmm12.org/about-nara/
  17. AAAI 2012 Fall Symposium on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Discovery in Biomedical Text. A symposium of interest to working on IR and biomedicine. Arlington, VA, U.S.A. 2 – 4 November 2012. https://sites.google.com/site/2012biomedicaltextsymposium/
  18. The Seventh International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING  (OM-2012). A work on ontologies, of interest to members working on search and knowledge organisation techniques. Is part of the Semantic Web conference. Taipei, Taiwan, 11 or 12 November 2012. http://om2012.ontologymatching.org/
  19. The 14th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2012). A conference on digital libraries, of interest to members working on search in digital libraries. Taipei, Taiwan, 12-15 November 2012. http://icadl2012.org/
  20. 7th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP 2012). A conference on social media of interest to members working in social search. Luxembourg-city, Luxembourg, 3-4 December 2012. http://www.smap2012.org/
  21. 1st International Workshop on Machine Reading for Social Media Content Analytics (IMRSMCA’12) A workshop on social media of interest to members working in social search. Macau, China, 4 December 2012. Part of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conference on Web Intelligence. https://sites.google.com/site/imrsmca/
  22. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2012 (ISM2012). A conference on multimedia of interest to members working in Multimedia IR. Irvine, CA, USA, 10-12 December 2012. http://ism.eecs.uci.edu/ISM2012/

Summer Schools

  1. 2nd Summer School on Information Foraging. A summer school with four themes: 1) information seeking behaviour; 2) interaction; 3) context and personalised search and 4) semantic and social interaction. Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 27 August to 7 September 2012. http://www.ru.nl/is/ifl/education/ip-2012/
  2. Summer School on Social Media Modeling and Search. A summer school focusing on the modelling of social media in the context of search. Fira, Santorini, Greece.10-14 September 2012. http://ssms2012.socialsensor.eu/