Note: Due to the COVID-19 crisis some events have been cancelled, postponed or will be run virtually. We have provided information on each of the events with the current status at the time of writing.
One Day Events
LREC 2020: Workshop on Cross-Language Search and Summarization over Text and Speech. A one day workshop on cross language search with both text and speech. Marseilles, France. 16 May 2020. http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~oard/clssts/
Conferences/Workshops
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
PAKDD 2020: 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Of interest to members working with Text Analytics and Search and general AI/NLP machine learning methods. Singapore. 11 – 14 May 2020. https://www.pakdd2020.org/index.html
FLAIRS-33: The 33nd International FLAIRS Conference. A general conference on AI with themes on NLP and Information Retrieval. North Miami Beach, Florida, USA. 17-20 May 2020. https://www.flairs-33.info/
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 2020 http://qqml.org/
QoMEX 2020: The 12th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience. Of interest to members working on user experience and multimedia search. Athlone, Ireland. 26th- 28th May 2020. http://qomex2020.ie/authors/call-for-papers
ESWC 2020: The 17th European Semantic Web Conference. Of interest to members working in the semantic search space. Heraklion, Crete, Greece. 31st May – 4th June 2020. https://2020.eswc-conferences.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/
ECSCW 2020:The 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Of interest to members working in the area of collaborative search. Siegen, Germany. 13-17 June 2020. https://ecscw.eusset.eu/2020/
HCIS-20:13th International KES Conference on Human Centred Intelligent Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of intelligent search technologies. Split, Croatia. 17-19 June 2020. http://hcis-20.kesinternational.org/index.php
IDC2020: The ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conference. Of interest to members working on search applications with Children in mind. BMA House in Bloomsbury at Tavistock Square. 21-24 June 2020. https://idc.acm.org/2020/attend/
IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020: A general AI conference with several themes of relevance to members. Bologna, Italy. 22-25 June 2020, http://www.smart-comp.org
EICS 2020: Engineering Interactive Computing System – The 12th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems. Of interest to members working on developing search interfaces. Nice (Sophia Antipolis), France. 23-26 June, 2020. https://eics.acm.org/2020/
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/
MDM 2020:The 21st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management. Of interest to members supervising and managing mobile search applications and services. Versailles, France. June 30 – July 3, 2020. http://mdmconferences.org/mdm2020/index.html
WIMS 2020: 10th International Conference on Web intelligence, Mining and Semantics. Of interest to members working in various areas of web and semantic search. Biarritz, France 30 June – 3 July 2020. https://wims2020.sigappfr.org
ACL 2020: The 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working with NLP technologies and search. Seattle, Washington, USA 5-10 July 2020. http://acl2020.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/
CIRCLE 2020: Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe. A conference of various European professional IR groups in Europe. Samatan, Gers, France. 6-9 July 2020. https://www.irit.fr/CIRCLE
BCS HCI 2020: 33rd International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference. Of interest working in the areas of HCI and search. Keele University, Staffordshire. 6-10 July 2020. https://bcshci2020.com/
HT2020 – ACM HYPERTEXT 2020, 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social media. A related conference with a focus on social good. Virtual Conference. https://projects.cah.ucf.edu/ht2020/
HCI International 2020: he Human-Computer Interaction International conference. Of interest to members working in the area of HCI and Search.Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-24 July 2020. http://2020.hci.international/
CUI 2020 – 2nd International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. Of interest to members working on search user interfaces. Bilbao, Spain. 9-10 July 2020. https://cui2020.com/
ACM UMAP 2020: 28th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Theme: “Responsible Personalization”. A user focused conferences with a particular theme on personalisation, which will be of interest to members working on personalised search or recommendation. Genoa, Italy. 14-17 July 2020. https://www.um.org/umap2020/
SIGIR 2020. 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. The big IR conference in the field. Xi’an, China. 25-30 July 2020. https://sigir.org/sigir2020/
JCDL 2020: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of search within the context of Digital Libraries. Xi’an, China. 1-5 August 2020. https://2020.jcdl.org/
ICKG 2020: 11th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph. Of interest to members working in the area of semantic search. Nanjing, China. 9-11 August 2020. http://ickg2020.bigke.org/
AMCIS 2020: Americas’ Conference on Information Systems. A general information systems conference with many themes of relevance to members. Salt Lake City, Utah. 12-16 August 2020. https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/
TPDL 2020: 24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working on search for digital libraries. Lyon, France, 25-28 August 2020.http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/tpdl2020/
AIME 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Of interest to members working on AI as applied to search in healthcare e.g. automated systematic review production. Minneapolis MN, USA. 26-29 August 2020. http://aime20.aimedicine.info/
MCNA 2020: The 4th International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search. Valencia, Spain. 1-4 September 2020. http://intelligenttech.org/MCNA2020/
CBMI 2020: Content Based Multimedia Indexing. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search, in particular resolving the semantic gap issue. Lillie, France. 2-4 September 2020. https://cbmi2020.univ-lille.fr/
SEMANTiCS 2020: 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems. Of interest to members working the semantic search space. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 7-10 September 2020. https://2020-eu.semantics.cc/
CIG (MDG) Conference 2020 – Metadata and Discovery. Of interest to members working in the area of meta-data and Search. IET Birmingham, Austin Court. 9-11 September 2020. https://catandindexgroup.wordpress.com/2019/12/17/call-for-proposals-cig-mdg-conference-2020/
COLING’2020: The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working with NLP technologies and search. Barcelona, Spain. 13-18 September 2020. https://coling2020.org/
ICTIR 2020: 10th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. Of interest to members pursuing theories and models in their work on search. Stavanger, Norway. 14-18 September 2020. https://ictir2020.org/
DESIRES 2020:2nd International Biennial Conference on Design of Experimental Search & Information Retrieval Systems. For all members interested in experimental search technologies and how to design them. Venice, Italy. 15 -31 September 2020. http://desires.dei.unipd.it/
EKAW 2020: 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. Of interest to members working in knowledge organisation and/or knowledge management and search. Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. 16-20 September 2020. https://ekaw2020.inf.unibz.it/. Part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge 2020 https://summerofknowledge.inf.unibz.it
KES 2020:24th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems. A general AI conference with various themes on Search. Verona, Italy, 16-18 September 2020. http://kes2020.kesinternational.org/
CLEF 2020. A conference which accepts research papers and focuses on TREC type search competitions. Thessaloniki, Greece. 22-25 September 2020. https://clef2020.clef-initiative.eu/
RecSys 2020: 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Of interest to members working on recommendation and search services and applications. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 22-26 September 2020. https://recsys.acm.org/recsys20/
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/
MobileHCI 2020: 22nd International Conference on HCI for Mobile Devices and Services. Of interest to members working on HCI for mobile search applications. Oldenburg, Germany. 5-8 October 2020. https://mobilehci.acm.org/2020/
ISMIR 2020: The 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. Of interest to members working on search for music. Montreal, Canada. 11–15 October 2020. https://ismir.github.io/ISMIR2020/
ACM Multimedia 2020. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search. Seattle, USA. 12-16 October 2020. https://2020.acmmm.org/
SLSP 2020: 8th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing. A general conference with many themes relevant to members. Cardiff, UK. 14-16 October 2020. https://irdta.eu/slsp2020/
CSCW 2020:The 23rd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Of interest to members working in the area of collaborative search. Minneapolis, USA. 17-21 October 2020. http://cscw.acm.org/2020/index.html
CIKM 2020: 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. A wide ranging conference with a key theme on search. Galway, Ireland. 19-23 October 2020. https://cikm2020.org/
SpaCCS 2020: 13th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage. Of interest to members working on privacy and search. Nanjing, China. October 23-25, 2020. http://www.spaccs2020.com/
ICMI 2020: The 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. Of interest to members working in the area of multimodal interaction and search technologies and application. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 25-29 October 2020. http://icmi.acm.org/2020/index.php?id=cfp
NORDICHI’20: Nordic Forum for HCI Research. An HCI conference of interest to members working on the user side of search. Talinn, Estonia. 25-29 October 2020. https://nordichi2020.org/
ASSETS 2020: The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Of interest to members working in the area of accessible search. Athens, Greece. 26–28 October 2020. http://assets20.sigaccess.org/index.html
ISWC 2020: 19th International Semantic Web Conference. Of interest to members working on semantic search applications and services. Athens, Greece, 2-6 November 2020. http://iswc2020.semanticweb.org
EMNLP 2020: The 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Of interest to members working with NLP technologies to support search.. Barceló Bávaro Convention Centre, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. 8-12 November 2020. https://2020.emnlp.org/
ICADIWT 2020: The International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information & Web Technologies. Of interest to members working in various aspects of search, particularly the web. Thessaloniki, Greece. 9th – 11th November 2020. https://icadiwt2020.sigappfr.org/
HAI 2020: The 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. Of interest to members working in the area of conversational search. Sydney, Australia. 10-13 November 2020. http://hai-conference.net/hai2020/
ADMA 2020: The 16th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications. A general conference with various themes relevant to the search community. Foshan, China. 12-15 November 2020. https://adma2020.nuit.edu.cn/index.htm
ICDM 2020: 20th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. A general conference with various themes relevant to the search community. 17-20 November 2020, Sorrento, Italy. http://icdm2020.bigke.org/
ICHI 2020: IEEE International Conference on Healtcare Informatics. Of interest to members working in the area of search in support of Healthcare. Oldenburg, Germany. 30 November to 3 December 2020. https://ichi2020.de/
Winter and Autumn Schools
ACDL 2020: 3rd Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning. Of course with many themes of interest to IRSG members. Siena, Italy. 13-17 July 2020. https://acdl2020.icas.xyz/
LxMLS 2020: 10th Lisbon Machine Learning School. Of interest to member wanting to know more about the use of machine learning in search. Lisbon, Portugal. 21-29 July 2020. http://lxmls.it.pt/2020/
RuSSIR 2020: 13th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval. An annual summer school held in Russia. Moscow, Russia, 24–28 August 2020. http://romip.ru/russir2020