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 on 23rd and 24th November, with a tutorial day.
Conferences, workshops and Tutorials
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/
IJCAI 2021: The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. A premier AI conference with many themes of interest to members. Montreal, Canada,19-26 August, 2021. https://ijcai-21.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. 30 August – 2 September 2021. https://ht.acm.org/ht2021/
INTERACT 2021: 18th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction. An HCI conference with various themes of interest to members including accessibility. Bari, Italy, 30 August – 3 September 2021. https://www.interact2021.org/
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. 15-18 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 workshop focused on IR in Italy. Bari, Italy, 13-15 September 2021. http://sisinflab.poliba.it/iir2021/
FQAS 2021: 14th 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/
TrustData 2021: 12th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data. Of interest to members who are concerned about ethical issues in IR. New York, USA, 1-3 October 2021. http://www.spaccs.org/trustdata/trustdata2021/
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/
IHIET-FS 2021:6th International Conference on Human Interaction & Emerging Technologies: Future Systems. Of interest to members thinking about the future and interaction in search. Reims, France, 28-30 October 2021. http://ihiet-fs.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/
EMNLP 2021: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and IR.Online and Dominican Republic, 7-11 November 2021. https://2021.emnlp.org/
HCOMP 2021: 9th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. Of interest to members working with crowdsoucing and IR problems such as indexing and evaluation. Online, 14-18 November 2021. https://www.humancomputation.com/
OSNs:2nd International Symposium on Fact-Checking, Fake News and Malware Detection in Online Social Networks. Of interest to members who are concerned about the ethical aspects of IR. 15-17 November 2021. Montreal, Canada. https://csonet-conf.github.io/index.php/track-1/index.html
ISKO 2021: 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/
ICADL 2021: The 23rd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries and search. Online. 1-3 December 2021. https://icadl.net/icadl2021/
ICDM 2021: The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. A conference with many themes of interest to members, including a workshop on Mining and Learning in the Legal Domain. Auckland, New Zealand, 7-10 December 2021. https://icdm2021.auckland.ac.nz/
WSDM 2022: The 15th ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. Of interest working in the area of web search. Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 21-25 February 2022. http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/
CHIIR 2022: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. A conference focuses on human computer interaction issues in IR. Online and Regensburg, Germany,14-18 March, 2022. https://ai.ur.de/chiir2022/home
DCC 2022: Data Compression Conference. Of interest to members using compression techniques in their work e.g. compressing indexes. Snowbird, Utah, 22-25 March 2022. https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc/
ECIR 2022: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval. The groups annual conference on IR. Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 April 2022. https://ecir2022.org/
CHI 2022:ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The premier HCI conference with themes of interest to members. New Orleans, 30 April – 6 May 2022. https://chi2022.acm.org/
CLEF 2022: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum. A conference with various evaluation themes. Bologna, Italy, 5-8 September 2022. http://clef2022.clef-initiative.eu
ISIC 2022: The Information Seeking in Context Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of Information Behaviour and Seeking. Berlin, Germany, 26-29 September 2022. https://pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/ibi/isic-2022/
Winter and Autumn Schools
Malawi Data Science Bootcamp 2021: A practical summer school for data science useful for members. Malawi, 18-29 October 2021. https://mwdata.science/