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
FDIA 2022 – Future Directions in Information Access. A forum for new PhD researchers. Lisbon, Portugal. 20 July 2022. http://essir2022.org/fdia/
Conferences, workshops and Tutorials
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/
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/
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, 28-30 September 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/
SPIRE 2022:29th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. A long standing text processing conference with a theme focusing on IR. 8-10 November 2022, Concepción, Chile. http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/
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/
CONVERSATIONS 2022: 6th International Workshop on Chatbot Research, Applications and Design. Of interest to members working in the area of chatbot assisted search. 22-23 November 2022. Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://2022.conversations.ws/
MUM 2022: 21st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. Of interest to members working in the area of multimedia search. 27-30 November 2022. Lisbon, Portugal. https://mum-conf.org/2022/
ACM Multimedia ASIA 2022. Of interest to members working in the area of Multimedia IR. 13-16 December 2022, Tokyo, Japan. https://mmasia2022.org/
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/
WSDM2023: 16th ACM International WSDM Conference. A wide ranging conference with a them on Web Search. Singapore. 27 February – 3 March 3 2023. http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2023/
ECIR 2023: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). The groups annual conference for IR research. 2-6 April 2023. Dublin, Ireland. http://ecir2023.org/
Winter and Autumn Schools
ESSIR 2022: 13th European Summer School in Information Retrieval. A long standing summer school on IR. 18-22 July 2022. Lisbon, Portugal. https://essir2022.org/