Note from compiler Andy Macfarlane – 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
ESWC2022: 19th conference on the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graphs. Of interest to members working in the area of semantic search. 29 May – 2 June 2022. Heraklion, Greece. https://2022.eswc-conferences.org/
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
ICMR 2022: ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. A conference focuses specifically on multimedia IR. Newark, NJ, USA (Hybrid). 27-30 June 2022. https://www.icmr2022.org/
HT2022: The 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media. Of interest to members working in the area of social search. Barcelona, Spain, 28 June – 1 July 2022. https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/
IIR 2022: 12th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop. A workshop focused on IR in Italy. 29 June – 1st July 2022, Milano, Italy. https://recsyspolimi.github.io/iir2022
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/
CIRCLE 2022: 2nd edition of the Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe. A conference with many themes around IR. 4-7 July 2022, Samatan, Gers, France. https://www.irit.fr/CIRCLE/
SIGIR 2022: The 45th ACM SIGIR conference. The major IR conference. Madrid, Spain. 11-15 July 2022. https://sigir.org/sigir2022/
ACM ICTIR 2022: The 8th ACM SIGIR International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of theory and IR, co-located with SIGIR. July 15, 2022. https://www.ictir2022.org/home
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/
SEPLN 2022: 38th International Conference of The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search, focus is very much on Spanish themes. A Coruña, Spain, 21-23 September 2022, https://sepln2022.grupolys.org/
CUI 2022: 4th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces. Of interest to members working in the area of conversational search. Glasgow, Scotland, July 26-28 2022. https://www.conversationaluserinterfaces.org/2022/
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
MDG Conference 2022: CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery”. Of interest to members working in the area of meta-data and search. 7-9 September 2022, IET Birmingham: Austin Court, Birmingham, England. https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201298&id=686430
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/
ACM RecSys 2022: The 16th ACM Recommender Systems Conference. A conference focuses on recommendation systems, a subject closely related to IR. 18 – 23 September 2022. Seattle, USA. https://recsys.acm.org/
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/
BigTMSAI 2022: Big Text Mining Searching and Artificial Intelligence
@ 14th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2022). Of interest to members working in the area of Big Data and Search. Hammamet, Tunisia, 28-30September 2022. http://www.iccci.pwr.edu.pl.
ACM Multimedia 2022. Of interest to members working in the area of Multimedia IR. Lisbon, Portugal, 10-14 October, 2022. https://2022.acmmm.org/
MISDOOM 2022: – 4th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media. Of interest to members working on the impact of disinformation on searching. 11-12 October 2022. Boise State University, Idaho, USA. https://www.boisestate.edu/misdoom-2022/
CIKM: 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. A long standing conference with a theme on IR. 17-22 October 2022
Hybrid Conference, Hosted in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. https://www.cikm2022.org/
SocInfo2022: International Conference on Social Informatics. Of interest to members working in the area of social search. Glasgow, UK. 19 – 21 October 2022.
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/socinfo2022/
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
ISWC 2022: 21st International Semantic Web Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of semantic search. Hangzhou, China, 23-27 October 2022.
https://iswc2022.semanticweb.org/
ASIS&T 2022: 85th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. An information science conference with many themes related to IR. Wyndham Grand Hotel, Pittsburg, PA, USA. 29 October -1 November 2022. https://www.asist.org/am22/
ICMI 2022: 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. Of interest to members working in the area of multimodal interaction and search. 7-11 November 2022, Bengaluru, India. https://icmi.acm.org/2022/
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
WI-IAT ’22: The 21st IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. Of interest to members working in the area of web search. 17-20 November 2022, Niagara Falls, Canada. https://www.wi-iat.com/wi-iat2022/
HICSS’23: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Minitrack:
“Intelligent Information Access and Retrieval”. Of interest to members working in the area AI and search. 3-6 January 2023. Hawaii. https://hicss.hawaii.edu/
Winter and Autumn Schools