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 2021. This two day event will be held in November, with a tutorial day.
Conferences, workshops and Tutorials
AsianCHI 2021: 5th Asian CHI Symposium. Of interest to members working in the area of interfaces and/or interaction and search. Virtual, 7th – 8th May 2021.
https://asian-chi.github.io/2021/
CHI 2021: CM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The premier HCI conference of interest to members working in the area of user interaction and search. Online, 8-13 May 2021.
https://chi2021.acm.org/
RCIS 2021: 15th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science. Of interest to members working on research methods in information retrieval. Limassol, Cyprus, 12-14 May 2021.
http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2021/
ICWE 2021: 21st International Conference on Web Engineering. Of interest to members working in the area of web search. Biarritz, France, 18-21 May 2021,
https://icwe2021.webengineering.org/
QQML2021: 13th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference. Of interest to members working on methodological issues in search in the context of libraries. Online and Athens, Greece, 25-28 May, 2021.
http://qqml.org/
NAACL 2021:2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. Virtual. 6-11 June 2021.
https://2021.naacl.org/
LDK 2021: The Third Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge. Of interest to members working in the area of semantic web and NLP. Zaragoza, Spain. 14-16 June 2021.
http://2021.ldk-conf.org/
EuroVis 2021. Of interest to members working in the area of visualization and search. Zürich, Switzerland, 14-16 June 2021. https://www.eurovis.org/
IMX 2021: The ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search particularly in the context of entertainment. Online and New York City, USA, 21-23 June 2021.
http://imx.acm.org/2021/
ACM UMAP 2021:
29th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Theme: “Re-Evaluating Evaluation in Personalization Research”. Of interest to members working in the area of personalization and search. Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Online, 21-25 June 2021 (tentative). https://www.um.org/umap2021/
MobiSys 2021: 19th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. A conference of interest to members working in the area of mobile search. Virtual. 24th June – 2 July 2021.
https://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2021/
ACM SIGIR 2021: The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. The big IR conference with many themes on different aspects examining the search domain. Montréal, Québec, Canada (onlne). 11-15 July 2021.
http://sigir.org/sigir2021/
ACM ICTIR 2021: The 7th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. A conference focusing on the theoretical aspects of search. Virtual. 11 July 2021. https://ictir2021.org/
British HCI 2021: 33rd British HCI Conference 2021: Post-pandemic HCI – Living Digitally. Of interest to members working in the area of interfaces and interaction for search. Virtual, 19-21 July 2021.
https://hci2021.bcs.org/
HCII 2021: 23rd HCI International conference. Of interest to members working in the area of user interaction and search. Online and Washington DC, USA, 24-29 July 2021.
http://www.hcii2021.org
ACL-IJCNLP 2021: The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. Bangkok, Thailand, 1-6 August 2021. https://2021.aclweb.org/
ACMHT21:ACM Hypertext and Social Media Conference 2021. A conference with many themes on search including browsing and social search. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland & online. 29 August – 1 September 2021.
https://ht.acm.org/ht2021/
TSD 2021:24th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. Of interest to members working in the area of intelligent personal assistants and conversational search. Olomouc, Czech Republic, 6-9 September 2021.
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2021/index.php
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. 1151-8 September 2021. Padua, Italy.
http://desires.dei.unipd.it/
GoodIT 2021: ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. Of interest to members working in the area of ethics and search e.g. privacy and accessibility. Rome, Italy, 9-11 September 2021.
http://www.grc.upv.es/goodit2021/
FOIS 2021: 12th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of ontologies and search. 13-16 September 2021. https://fois2021.inf.unibz.it/
TPDL 2021: 25th Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of Digital Libraries and search. Online. 13-17 September 2021.
http://www.tpdl.eu/tpdl2021
IIR 2021: 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop. A focued workshop on Search. Bari, Italy. 15-17 September 2021. http://sisinflab.poliba.it/iir2021/
FQAS 2021: 14 th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of query answering systems and search. Bratislava, Slovakia, 19–24 September 2021. http://ifsa-eusflat2021.eu/fqas_conf.html
CLEF 2021: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum. A conference with various evaluation themes. Bucharest, Romania. 21-24 September 2021. http://clef2021.clef-initiative.eu/
JCDL 2021: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries and search. Virtual. 27-30 September 2021. https://2021.jcdl.org/
RecSys 2021: 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of recommender systems and search. Amsterdam, Holland, 27 September – 1 October 2021.
https://recsys.acm.org/
AKBC 2021: 3rd Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction. Of interest to members working in the area of knowledge organisation and search. Virtual. 4-7 October 2021. http://www.akbc.ws
ICMI 2021: 23rd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. Of interest to members working in the area of multimodel search. Montreal, Canada. 18-22 October 2021.
https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=home
ASSETS 2021:23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Of interest to members working in the area of accessibility and search. Virtual. 18 – 22 October 2021.
https://assets21.sigaccess.org/index.html
ISWC 2021: 20th International Semantic Web Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of semantic search. Virtual, 24-28 October 2021.
https://iswc2021.semanticweb.org/
ASSIS&T: 84th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. A conference with various information science themes of interest to search. Virtual. 30 October – 2 November 2021. https://www.asist.org/am21/
CIKM 2021: 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. A general conference with a theme on search. Virtual. 1-5 November 2021. https://www.cikm2021.org/
ISKO 2021 LISBON – 5th ISKO Conference Spain-Portugal (15th ISKO Spain). Of interest to members working in the area of knowledge organization and search. Lisbon, Portugal, 25-26 November 2021.
https://www.isko2021.letras.ulisboa.pt/
Winter and Autumn Schools
ACDL 2021, An Interdisciplinary Course: Big Data, Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence without Borders. Of interest to members working in the area of big data and search. Tuscany, Italy, 19-23 July 2021.
https://acdl2021.icas.cc
DeepLearn 2021 Summer. Of interest to members working in the area of big data and search. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 26-30 July 2021.
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/