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! https://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2019/sse2019.php
DIR2019: Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop 2019. A one day workshop on search. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 29 November 2019. http://www.dir2019.nl/
Conferences/Workshops
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/
GIR’19: 13th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval. Of interest to members using geographical information search applications. Lyon, France. 28th-29th November 2019. http://www.geo.uzh.ch/~rsp/gir19/
IDEAL 2019: 20th International conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning. Of interest to members working in the area of big data and analytics in the context of search. Manchester, UK. 14-16 November 2019. http://www.confercare.manchester.ac.uk/events/ideal2019/
TrustData 2019: The 10th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data. Privacy and search is a significant issue, which all members should aware of. Guangzhou, China. 12-15 November 2019. http://www.spaccs.org/trustdata2019/
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/
ADCS 2019: The 24th Australasian Document Computing Symposium. A wide ranging conference with many themes on search. Sydney, Australia. 5-6 December 2019. http://adcs-conference.org/2019/
ICADIWT 2019: The Tenth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies. A general web conference with several themes related to search. Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore, India. 9-11 December 2019. http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/
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
MMM 2020: 20th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia information retrieval. Daejeon, Korea. 6-8 January 2020. http://www.mmm2020.kr/
FAT* 2020: The 2020 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Accountability and transparency of search systems in terms of privacy is a very hot topic, which is addressed in this wide ranging and multi-disciplinary conference. Barcelona, Spain. 27-30 January 2020. https://fatconference.org/index.html
IRCDL 2020: 16th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries and search. Bari, Italy. 30-31 January 2020. https://kdde.di.uniba.it/ircdl20/
WSDM 2020: The 13th ACM International WSDM Conference. A general web conference with several themes related to search. Houston, USA. 3-7 February 2020. http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2020/
ACM HotMobile 2020: The 21st Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications. Of interest to members working in the area of Mobile search. Austin, Texas, USA. 3-4 March 2020. https://hotmobile.org/2020/
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/
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/
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
IEEE PerCom 2020: 18th Annual IEEE International conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. Of interest to members working on pervasive applications and services e.g. context and search. Austin, Texas, USA. 23-27 March 2020. http://www.percom.org/
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/
I3E 2020: The 19th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society. A general conference of interest to members working in E-Commerce and search. Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa. 6–8 April 2020. https://www.i3e2020.org/
ECIR 2010: 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval. The groups annual conference. Lisbon. 14 -17 April 2020. http://www.ecir2020.org/
SDM 2020: 20th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. Of interest to members working in the area of machine learning and search. Cincinnati, USA. 7-9 May 2020. https://www.siam.org/Conferences/CM/Conference/sdm20
RCIS 2020: 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science. Of interest to members using theory to guide their search applications and services. Limassol, Cyprus. 20-22 May 2020. http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2020/
QQML2020: 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference. Methods and search is a key issue, and this conference address that issue on various levels. Barcelona. Spain. 26-30 May 2020http://qqml.org/
ICMR 2020: The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search. Dublin, Ireland. 8-11 June 2020. http://icmr2020.org/
PETRA 2020: The 13th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of Context and Search. Corfu Island, Greece. 30 June – 3 July 2020. http://www.petrae.org/
ISKO 2020: The 16th Annual ISKO conference. Of interest to members using knowledge organization techniques in search applications and services. Aalborg, Denmark. 6– 8 July 2020. https://www.communication.aau.dk/research/knowledge_groups/e-learning-lab/isko/
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 Winter and Autumn Schools
AFIRM: ACM SIGIR/SIGKDD Africa Summer School on Machine Learning for Data Mining and Search. Of interest to members needing more knowledge on machine learning for search applications and services. Cape Town, South Africa. 27 – 31 January 2020. http://sigir.org/afirm2020