Note: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic 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
Conferences, workshops and Tutorials
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/
IRCDL 2022: 18th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries and search. Padua, Italy, 24-25 February 2022. http://ircdl2022.dei.unipd.it/
iConference 2022: The iSchool conference. Of interest to members more interested in information science aspects of information retrieval. Online. 28 February – 4 March 2022. https://ischools.org/iConference
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/
MMM 2022: 28th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search. 5-8 April 2022, Qui Nhon, Vietnam. http://mmm2022.org/
ECIR 2022: 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval. The groups annual conference on IR. Stavanger, Norway, 10-14 April 2022. https://ecir2022.org/
SAC 2022: The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing. A wide ranging conference on many issues in computing including IR. Brno, Czech Republic, 25 -29 April 2022. https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2022/
WebConf 2020: The Web Conference 2022. A conference focusing on the web, with key theme on web search. Online, 25 -29 April 2022. https://www2022.thewebconf.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/
RCIS 2022: 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science. Of interest to members working on research issues in IR. Barcelona, Spain, 17-20 May 2022. http://www.rcis-conf.com/rcis2022/
ACL 2022: 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. Dublin, Ireland. 22-17 May 2022. https://www.2022.aclweb.org/
DAS 2022: 15th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems. Of interest to members interested in issues beyond just retrieval. La Rochelle, France. 22-25 May 2022. https://das2022.univ-lr.fr/
AVI 2022: International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces. Of interest to members working in the area of visual interfaces and search. 6-10 June 2022, Villa Tuscolana Park Hotel, Frascati, Rome, Italy. https://sites.google.com/di.uniroma1.it/avi2022/
ETRA 2022: ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications. Of interest to members working with eye tracking systems and the evaluation of search. 8-11 June 2022. Hybrid Online Conference. https://etra.acm.org/2022/index.html
NLDB 2022: 27th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. 15-17 June 2022, Valencia, Spain. https://nldb2022.prhlt.upv.es/
JCDL 2022: ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2022. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries and search. Cologne, Germany, 20 – 24 June 2022. https://2022.jcdl.org/
ACM FAccT 2022: ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Of interest to members focusing on issues such as fairness and explainability in search. Seoul, South Korea, 21-24 June 2022. https://facctconference.org/2022/index.html
HT2022: The 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. Of interest to members working in the area of social search. Barcelona, Spain, 18 June – 1 July 2022. https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/
UMAP ’22: 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Of interest to members working in the area of contextual modelling and search. 4–7 July 2022. Barcelona, Spain. http://www.um.org/umap2022/
SIGIR 2022: The 45th ACM SIGIR conference. The major IR conference. Madrid, Spain. 11-15 July 2022. https://sigir.org/sigir2022/
BCS HCI 2022: 35th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference. Of interest to members working on user interfaces for search. 11-13 July 2022, Keele University, Staffordshire. https://bcshci.org/
ICME 2022: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search. 18-22 July 2022, Taipei, Taiwan. http://2022.ieeeicme.org/
#SMSociety: 2022 International Conference on Social Media and Society. Of interest to members working in the area of social search. Online. 18-19 July 2022. https://socialmediaandsociety.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
GoodIT 2022: ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good. Of interest to members who are interested in search to better society. 7–9 September, 2022, St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus. https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/
TPDL 2022: 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. Of interest to members working in the area of digital libraries and search. 20-23 September 2022, Padua, Italy. http://tpdl2022.dei.unipd.it/
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/
IP&MC2022: Information Processing & Management Conference. A journal and conference with many themes addressing search. Xiamen, China, 20-23 October 2022. https://www.elsevier.com/events/conferences/information-processing-and-management-conference
TREC 2022: Text Retrieval Conference 2022. A annual conference with various tracks on issues in text retrieval now it its 31st year. 14-18 November 2022, NIST, Gaithersburg, Md. USA. https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/call2022.html
Winter and Autumn Schools