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. Please check the URL of the event for further details.
One Day Events
Search Solutions 2020. This two day event will be held in November, with a tutorial day on the 24th together with the main event the day before on the 23rd. More details will be made available shortly.
Conferences/Workshops
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. 7-11 September 2020. https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1332403&group=201298
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/
ECML PKDD 2020: European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Of interest to members working in the area of knowledge discovery and search. Virtual Conference. 14-18 September 2020. https://ecmlpkdd2020.net/
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/
DSAA 2020: IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics. Of interest to members working on the data science aspects of search. Sydney, Australia (Online) 06-09 Oct. 2020. http://dsaa2020.dsaa.co
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 (online). 17-21 October 2020. https://cscw.acm.org/2020/
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/
MCNA 2020: International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications. Of interest to members working in the area of Multimedia Search and applications. Valencia, Spain (Online). 19-22 October 2020. http://intelligenttech.org/MCNA2020/
IDSTA 2020: co-sponsored International Conference on Intelligent Data Science Technologies and Applications. A conference with many themes of interest to members including web and text analytics. Valencia, Spain (Online). 19-22 October 2020. http://intelligenttech.org/IDSTA2020/
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. 23-25 October 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 (online). 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/
SEMAPRO 2020: The Fourteenth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing. Of interest to members working in the area of semantic search. Nice, France. 25 – 29 October 2020. https://www.iaria.org/conferences2020/SEMAPRO20.html
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/
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/
MUM 2020: 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. A conference of interest to members working in the area of mobile multimedia search. 22-25 November 2020Essen, Germany. http://www.mum-conf.org/2020/
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/
ICADL 2020: 22nd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries and search. Online. 30 November 2020 – 1 December 2020. https://icadl.net/icadl2020/
OzCHI 2020: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Of interest to members working in the area of HCI and search. Virtual Conference. 2-4 December 2020. http://www.ozchi.org/2020/
COLING 2020: The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. Barcelona, Spain. 8-13 December 2020. https://coling2020.org/
2020 ASIS&T Asia-Pacific Regional Virtual Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of information behaviour/HCI and search. Online. 12-13 December 2020. https://www.asist.org/chapters/asiapac/events/2020-regional-meeting/
MMM 2021: International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search. Prague, Czech Republic. 25-27 January 2021. https://mmm2021.cz/
ISIC 2021: International Semantic Intelligence Conference. Of interest to members working in such areas as semantic web, machine learning or AI and search. New Delhi, India/Online. 25-27 February 2021. https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe/isic/
CHIIR 2021: 6th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of human behavior and search. Canberra, Australia, 15-19 March, 2021. https://acm-chiir.github.io/chiir2021/
ACM IUI 2021: Intelligent User Interfaces. Of interest to members working on intellgient interfaces for search. College Station, TX, USA. 18-21 March 2021. http://iui.acm.org/2021/
PerCom 2021: The 19th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. Of interest to members working in the area of mobile search. Kassel, Germany. 22-26 March 2021.
http://www.percom.org
SAC 2021: The 36th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing – Web Technologies Track. Of interest to members working in the area of web search. Gwangju, Korea. 22 – 26 March 2021. http://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2021/
DCC 2021: Data Compression conference. Of interest to members working in the area of compression problems and search. Snowbird, Utah. 23-26 March 2021. https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc/
iConference 2021: The annual Information Schools iConference. Of interest to members who’s focus is more on the information science aspects of search. Beijing, China (Online). 28-31 March 2021. https://ischools.org/iConference
ECIR 2021: 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval. The groups annual conference. Lucca, Italy. 29 March – 2 April 2021. https://www.ecir2021.eu/
DESIRES 2021:2nd 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. tbc September 2021. Postponed from 2020. http://desires.dei.unipd.it/
Winter and Autumn Schools
DeepLearn 2021 Winter: 4th International School on Deep Learning. Of interest to members working in the area of Deep Learning and search. Milan, Italy. 11-15 January 2021. https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021w/
BigDat 2020 Autumn: 7th International School on Big Data. Of interest to members working in the area of big data and search. Beersheba, Israel, 18-22 April 2021. https://irdta.eu/bigdat2020a