One Day Events
Search Solutions 2019: Out annual practitioner focused get together held on 25th and 26th November 2019. Tutorials are held on the 25th and the main event is on the 26th. A date for your diary!
Conferences/Workshops
EPIA’2019: 18th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Includes a number of themes including a track TEMA’19: Text Mining and Applications of interest to members. Vila Real, Portugal. 3-6 September 2019. https://www.epia2019.utad.pt/
4IR: Philosophical, Ethical, Legal Dimensions. A chance to explore the various societal issues surrounding search. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. 3-5 September 2019. https://easychair.org/smart-program/4IRPhEL/about.html
CBMI 2019: International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing. Of Interest to members working in the area of multimedia search. Dublin, Ireland, 4-6 Sept 2019. http://cbmi2019.org/
CLEF 2019: An IR evaluation competition and workshop. Lugano, Switzerland – September 9-12, 2019 http://clef2019.clef-initiative.eu/
TPDL 2018: 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of Digital Libraries and search. Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway. 9-12 September 2019. http://www.tpdl.eu/tpdl2019/
QPLogic 2019: 1st International Workshop on Quantum and Probabilistic Logic. Of interest to members working on the theoretical or modelling side of search. Cottbus, Germany, 9-13 September 2019. Part of Declare 2019: https://www.declare19.de/
ACM RecSys 2019: 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of recommendations and personalisation in search. Copenhagen, Denmark. 16-20 September 2019. https://recsys.acm.org/recsys19/
ECML/PKDD 2019: The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. A conference with several themes on search of interest to members. Würzburg, Germany. 16 -20 September 2019. http://ecmlpkdd2019.org/
HI’19: ACM Hypertext – Tear Down the Wall. Of interest to members working on problems such as browsing etc. Hof, Germany. 17-20 September 2019. https://human.iisys.de/ht2019/
WEBIST 2019: 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. Of interest to members working in the area of web search. Vienna, Austria. 18-20 September 2019. http://www.webist.org/
I3E 2019: The 18th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society. On interest to members working in the area of E-Commerce and search. Trondheim, Norway. 18-20 September 2019. https://www.i3e2019.com/
BreMM19: The 4th Bremen Conference on Multimodality. Multimodality and search is a potential interest for the IRSG community. Bremen University, Germany. 25-27 September 2019. https://www.mm2014.uni-bremen.de/
TransAI 2019: Transdisciplinary AI 2019. A chance to explore the interdsiciplinary aspects of AI and search. Laguna Hills, California. 25-27 September 2019. https://www.transai.org/
LWDA 2019: Information Retrieval Workshop – 2019 GI Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval. The German Computing Society workshop on IR. Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. 30 September – 2 October 2019. https://pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/ipa/lwda2019/
NoDaLiDa 2019: 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. University of Turku, Turku, Finland. 30 September – 2 October 2019. https://nodalida2019.org/
MOBILEHCI 2019: 21th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Of interest to members working in the area of mobile search. Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan. 1–4 October 2019. https://mobilehci.acm.org/2019/
ICTIR 2019: The 5th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. A conference focusing on the theory side or search. Santa Clara, California, USA. 2-5 October 2019. http://ictir2019.org/
SISAP 2019: 12th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications. A conference with many themes of interest, particularly ranking functions. Newark NJ, USA. 2 – 4 October 2019. http://www.sisap.org/2019/
TTO 2019: First Conference on Truth and Trust Online. Of interest to members looking to improve the repudiation of search systems in terms of trust and reliability. London, UK. 4-5 October 2019. https://truthandtrustonline.com/
CDVE2019: The 16th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering. Of interest to members working in the area of visualization and search. Mallorca, Spain. 6-9 October 2019. http://www.cdve.org/index.html
HAI 2019: The 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. Of interest to members working in the area of agent technologies and search/filtering. Kyoto, Japan — 6-10, October 2019. http://hai-conference.net/hai2019/
SLSP 2019: 7th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech processing. Of interest to members working in the area of audio search. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 14-16 October 2019. http://slsp2019.irdta.eu/
WI’19: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence. Of interest to members working in the area of web search. Thessaloniki, Greece. 14-17 October 2019. https://webintelligence2019.com/
RoCHI 2019: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Of interest to members working on the user interaction side of search. Bucharest, Romania. 17-18 October 2019. http://rochi2019.utcluj.ro/
SUI 2019: ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction. Of interest to members working in the area of user interaction and search. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 19-20 October 2019. http://sui.acm.org/2019/index
ACM Multimedia 2019: 27th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia and search. Nice, France. 21-25 October 2019. https://www.acmmm.org/2019/
SNAMS-2019: The 6th IEEE* International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security. Of interest to members working in the area of social search. Granada, Spain. October 22-25, 2019. http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2019/index.php
KSE 2019: The 11th IEEE INTERNATIONAL Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering. A conference with a focus on the systems side of search. Da Nang, Vietnam. 24-26 October 2019. http://kse2019.ued.udn.vn/
ISWC 2019: 18th International Semantic Web Conference. Of interest to members working with knowledge organisation schemes to support search technologies. Auckland, New Zealand, 26-30 October 2019. https://iswc2019.semanticweb.org/
ASSETS 2019: The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Of interest to members working in the area of accessibility and search. Pittsburgh, PA. 28–30 October 2019. http://assets19.sigaccess.org/index.html
EDOC 2019: 23rd Enterprise Computing Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of enterprise search. Paris, France. 28-31 October 2019. https://edoc2019.sciencesconf.org/
LKE 2019: 7th International Symposium on Language & Knowledge Engineering. Of interest to members working in the area of Semantic Search. * Dublin, Ireland. 29-31 October 2019. https://lkesymposium.tudublin.ie/
India CHI 2019: Agents and Agency – HCI in the Age of Machine Learning. Of interest to members working in the user interaction side of AI technologies for search. Hyderabad, India. 1-3 November 2019. https://www.indiahci.org/2019/
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019: 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. Hong Kong, China. 3-7 November 2019. https://www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org/
CIKM 2019: The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. A conference with several themes on search, which a focus on AI this year. Beijing, China. 3-7 November 2019. http://www.cikm2019.net/
ISMIR 2019: 20th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Of interest to members working on music IR problems. Delft, The Netherlands. 4-8 November 2019. http://ismir2019.ismir.net
ICADL 2019: 21st International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries conference. A joint conference with many themes in search. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 4-7 November 2019. http://icadl2019.org/
COLLNET2019: 15th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics. A conference with many themes of interest to members. Dalian, China, November 5-8, 2019. http://collnet2019.dlut.edu.cn/meeting/index_en.asp?id=2676
AIRS 2019: The 15th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference. An Asian focused IR conference. Hong Kong, China. 7-9 November 2019. http://airs2019.ouhk.edu.hk/
Clic-it 2019: Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. Bari, Italy. 13-15 November 2019. http://clic2019.di.uniba.it/
IEEE DataCom 2019: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing. Of interest to members working on big data problems and search. Kaohsiung, Taiwan. 18-21 November 2019. https://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~conference/datacom2019/
DPH 2019: 9th International Digital Public Health Conference. Of interest to members working in various aspect of heath including systematic reviews. Marseille Chanot, Palais des Congrès et des Expositions, Marseille, France. 20 – 23 November 2019. https://www.acm-digitalhealth.org/
OzCHI 2019: 31st Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction – “Experience Design Across Asia Pacific”. Of interest to members working on the user interaction side of search. Perth/Fremantle, WA, Australia, 3-5 December 2019. http://ozchi2019.visemex.org/wp/
IEEE BigData 2019: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Big Data. Of interest to members working in the area of Big Data and Search. Los Angeles, CA, USA. 10-13 December 2019. http://bigdataieee.org/BigData2019/
FIRE 2019: 11th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation. A conference with a focus on evaluation and the problems which surround such an activity. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. 12th – 15th December 2019. http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2019/home
ACM IUI 2020: ACM Intelligent User Interfaces. Of interest to members working on the user side of search. Cagliari, Italy. 17-20 March 2020. http://iui.acm.org/2020/
SAC 2020: 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. A conference with various themes of interest to members including web search. Brno, Czech Republic. 30 March -3 April 2020. http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/sacwt20/
ECIR 2010: 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval. The groups annual conference. Lisbon. 14 -17 April 2020. http://www.ecir2020.org/
CHIIR 2020: The 5th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. A conference focused on the user interaction side of search. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 14–18 March, 2020. http://sigir.org/chiir2020/
iConference 2019: Sustainable Digital Communities. Of interest to members working in the information science aspect of search. Borås, Sweden. 23-26 March 2020. https://ischools.org/iConference
ISIC 2020: The Information Behaviour Conference. A broader look at information in which search plays such an important part. Pretoria, South Africa. 28 September – 2 October 2020 http://www.isic2020.co.za/
Summer and Autumn Schools
VIVA 2019: International Summer School on Voice Interaction and Voice Assistants with focus on Health Care. Of interest to members working in the area of voice driven querying. Technische Universität Dresden. 22-28 September 2019. https://tu-dresden.de/ing/informatik/ai/mci/summerschool
ASIRF 2019: Autumn School 2019 for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging. A useful summer school on all aspects of search. Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. 22-29 September 2019. https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=68716