{"id":8031,"date":"2023-10-13T22:33:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=8031"},"modified":"2023-10-13T22:33:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:33:37","slug":"search-solutions-2023-conference-london-22-november-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=8031","title":{"rendered":"Search Solutions 2023 – Conference. London, 22 November 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group\u2019s<\/a> annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval. It is a unique opportunity to bring together academic research and practitioner experience.<\/p>\n

The Search Solutions event consists of a Tutorial day and a Conference day, each of which has a separate registration. Information on the Tutorial day can be found here.<\/p>\n

Location <\/strong><\/p>\n

Both the Tutorials and the Conference take place at the BCS London Headquarters, Ground Floor, 25 Copthall Avenue EC2R 7BP. This is a 10 minute walk from Liverpool Street Station (Elizabeth Line and London Underground) and a 20 minute walk from London Bridge Station.<\/p>\n

Registration form<\/strong> on Eventbrite<\/a><\/p>\n

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Conference fee<\/strong><\/p>\n

BCS Members and members of ISKO UK\u00a0 \u00a392 including VAT<\/p>\n

Non-members\u00a0 \u00a3110 including VAT<\/p>\n

Students \u00a380 including VAT<\/p>\n

Programme outline<\/strong><\/p>\n

The objective of the conference this year is to explore the implications and opportunities of AI-based technologies in enhancing the user experience in enterprise, e-commerce and systematic search. The conference marks the first anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT on 30 November 2022.<\/p>\n

09.45 Introductions<\/p>\n

09.55 Understanding the Dangers of using LLMs. Professor Julie Weeds<\/a>,\u00a0 Professor in Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex<\/p>\n

10.30 Using AI tools for discovery Hong Zhou<\/a> Wiley Scientific<\/p>\n

11.00 Break<\/p>\n

11.20 IR, AI and \u2018search\u2019 \u2013 Creating synergy\u00a0 Steve Zimmerman<\/a> Samy Ateia<\/a> and Martin White<\/a> consider the opportunities and the issues, with the assistance of the audience!<\/p>\n

12..20 BCS Search Industry Awards\u00a0 – Introduction Tony Russell-Rose<\/p>\n

12.30 Panel Session looking back at the morning presentations<\/p>\n

13.00 Lunch<\/p>\n

13.45 Pragmatic AI-powered Search – Keeping it Simple, not Stupid . Charlie Hull<\/a> Open Source Connections<\/p>\n

14.15 Retrieval-augmented text generation (RAG) for legal IR Grace Lee<\/a><\/p>\n

14.45 Ontologies in the age of AI-based discovery Peter Winstanley<\/a><\/p>\n

15.15 Break<\/p>\n

15.50 Presentation of the BCS Search Industry Awards<\/p>\n

16.00 New technologies for systematic reviews: are large language models really a gamechanger? James Thomas<\/a><\/p>\n

16.30 Integrating ChatGPT into existing applications Paul Cleverley<\/a><\/p>\n

17.00 Panel session – agreeing the take-aways from the conference<\/p>\n

17.30 SS2023 Best Paper Award<\/p>\n

17.45 Reception<\/p>\n

19.00 Close<\/p>\n

For further details, contact irsg@bcs.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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