Note from Andy Macfarlane, the compiler – 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
Search Solutions: The groups annual industry focused event, includes a tutorial day. 22-23 November 2022. https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/conferences-and-events/search-solutions/
Conferences, workshops and Tutorials
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/
BMVC 2022: British Machine Vision Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of image retrieval. 21-24 November 2022. Kia Oval, London. https://bmvc2022.org/
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/
EMNLP 2022: Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search, particularly the practical side of things. 7-11 December 2022. Abu Dhabi and Online. https://2022.emnlp.org/
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/
PerCom 2023: The 21th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. Of interest to members working in the area of ubiquitous computing and search. 13-17 March 2023. Atlanta, USA. https://www.percom.org/
CHIIR 2023: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval. Of interest to members working in the area of user information seeking and searching. 19-23 March 2023. Austin, Texas, U.S.A. https://sigir.org/chiir2023/
IUI 2023: 28th Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. Of interest to members working in the area of interfaces and user interaction in search. 27-31 March 2023, Sydney, Australia. https://iui.acm.org/2023/index.html
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/
ASIS&T 2023 Mid year conference: Expanding Horizons of Information Science and Technology and Beyond. A conference with many themes of interest to members. 11-13 April 2023. Online. https://www.asist.org/my23/
TheWebConf 2023: 32nd edition of The Web Conference. Of interest to members working in the area of web search. 30 April – 4 May 2023. Austin, Texas, U.S.A. https://www2023.thewebconf.org/
UMAP ’23: 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. Of interest to members working in the area of user modelling and personalisation of search. 26 – 29 June 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus. https://www.um.org/umap2023/
MDTT 2023: 2nd International Conference on Multilingual Digital Terminology Today. Of interest to members working in the area of cross language search. 29-30 June 2023. Lisbon, Portugal. http://mdtt2023.dei.unipd.it/en/
ACL 2023: The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Of interest to members working in the area of NLP and search. 9-14 July 2023. Toronto, Canada. https://2023.aclweb.org/
SIGIR 2023: The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. The big IR conference with many themes on IR. 23-27 July 2023. Taipei, Taiwan. https://sigir.org/sigir2023/
Winter and Autumn Schools
DeepLearn 2023 Winter: 8th International School on Deep Learning. Of interest to members interested in deep learning as applied to search. 16-20 January 2023. Bournemouth. https://irdta.eu/deeplearn/2023wi/