On Wednesday last week I had the privilege of co-organising the 18th Search Solutions conference, held at BCS London. As in previous years, the event included presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging topics in search and information retrieval. And in keeping with tradition, we were delighted to be able to announce the winners of this year’s BCS Search Industry Awards. In a special session held at the end of Search Solution 2023, it was my honour to announce the winners for the following categories:
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Announcing the winners of the 2023 Search Industry Awards
Posted in Events, Search, tagged BCS, Information Retrieval, IRSG on November 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Search Solutions 2023: lineup announced
Posted in Events, Search, tagged BCS, Information Retrieval, IRSG on October 31, 2023| Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, here is the line up for Search Solutions 2023, held at BCS London on 22-Nov-2023. Many thanks to Martin White and Michael Upshall for doing the heavy lifting on this. Hope to see you there?
Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval
Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s 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.
The Search Solutions event consists of a Tutorial day and a Conference day, each of which has a separate registration.
Location
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.
Registration form on Eventbrite
Conference fee
BCS Members and members of ISKO UK £92 including VAT
Non-members £110 including VAT
Students £80 including VAT
Programme outline
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.
09.45 Introductions
09.55 Understanding the Dangers of using LLMs. Professor Julie Weeds, Professor in Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex
10.30 Using AI tools for discovery Hong Zhou Wiley Scientific
11.00 Break
11.20 IR, AI and ‘search’ – Creating synergy Steve Zimmerman Samy Ateia and Martin White consider the opportunities and the issues, with the assistance of the audience!
12..20 BCS Search Industry Awards – Introduction Tony Russell-Rose
12.30 Panel Session looking back at the morning presentations
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Pragmatic AI-powered Search – Keeping it Simple, not Stupid . Charlie Hull Open Source Connections
14.15 Retrieval-augmented text generation (RAG) for legal IR Grace Lee
14.45 Ontologies in the age of AI-based discovery Peter Winstanley
15.15 Break
15.35 Presentation of the BCS Search Industry Awards
16.00 New technologies for systematic reviews: are large language models really a gamechanger? James Thomas
16.30 Integrating ChatGPT into existing applications Paul Cleverley
17.00 Panel session – agreeing the take-aways from the conference
17.30 SS2023 Best Paper Award
17.45 Reception
19.00 Close
For further details, contact irsg@bcs.org.uk.
New Informer – Autumn 2023
Posted in Search, tagged BCS, Information Retrieval, IRSG on October 18, 2023| Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, here are details of the latest issue of Informer, which just came out this week with conference reviews, feature articles, news and updates from the world of search and information retrieval.
Of particular note is the call for a new editor – this is a great opportunity so if you’re interested or would like to know more, drop us a line. If a volunteer is not forthcoming, this could be the LAST issue of Informer. No, really!
For further details see the Informer website. If you fancy becoming a contributor, get in touch.
New Informer – Spring 2023
Posted in Search, tagged BCS, Information Retrieval, IRSG on April 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, here are details of the latest issue of Informer, which just came out this week. This is again one of our bigger issues, with over twenty articles including conference reviews, feature articles, news and updates from the world of search and information retrieval. Of particular note is the call for a new editor – this is a great opportunity so if you’re interested or would like to know more, drop us a line. For further details see the Informer website. If you fancy becoming a contributor, get in touch!
Announcing the winners of the 2022 Search Industry Awards
Posted in Events, Search, tagged BCS, Information Retrieval, IRSG on November 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday last week I had the honour of co-chairing the 17th Search Solutions conference, at BCS London. As in previous years, the event included presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. And in keeping with tradition, we were delighted to be able to announce the winners of this year’s BCS Search Industry Awards. In a special session held at the close of Search Solution 2022, it was my honour to announce the winners for the following categories:
New Informer – Summer 2022
Posted in Search, tagged BCS, Information Retrieval, IRSG on August 6, 2022| Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, here are details of the latest issue of Informer, which just came out this week. This is again one of our bigger issues, with over a dozen articles including conference reviews, feature articles, news and updates from the world of search and information retrieval. Of particular note is the call for a new editor – this is a great opportunity so if you’re interested or would like to know more, drop us a line. For further details see the Informer website. If you fancy becoming a contributor, get in touch!
Search Solutions 2022: Call for speaker proposals
Posted in Events, Search, tagged BCS, Information Retrieval, IRSG on May 13, 2022| Leave a Comment »
In case you hadn’t heard, Search Solutions is back in London this year as a face to face event (although see below for possible remote participation). So I’m delighted to share with you the call for presentations below. If you’re thinking of presenting and would like feedback on a potential presentation idea feel free to reach out to any of us on the committee. Hope to see you there!
New Informer – Spring 2022
Posted in Search, tagged BCS, Information Retrieval, IRSG on May 4, 2022| Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, here are details of the latest issue of Informer, which just came out this week. This is again one of our bigger issues, with over a dozen articles including conference reviews, feature articles, news and updates from the world of search and information retrieval. This one features extended coverage of ECIR 2022 and CHIIR 2022 and news of new features, specialist groups and training courses. For further details see the Informer website. If you fancy becoming a contributor, get in touch!
New Informer – Winter 2022
Posted in Search, tagged BCS, Information Retrieval, IRSG on January 21, 2022| Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, here are details of the latest issue of Informer, which just came out this week. This is again one of our bigger issues, with around a dozen articles including conference reviews, feature articles, news and updates from the world of search and information retrieval. This one features extended coverage of Search Solutions 2021 and the Industry Awards along with feature articles on text extraction from PDFs and empirical studies of enterprise search. For further details see the Informer website. If you fancy becoming a contributor, get in touch!
Announcing the winners of the 2021 Search Industry Awards
Posted in Events, Search, tagged BCS, Information Retrieval, IRSG on November 30, 2021| 1 Comment »
On Wednesday last week I had the honour of co-chairing the 16th Search Solutions conference, hosted online. As before, the event included presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. And in keeping with previous events, we were delighted to be able to announce the winners of this year’s BCS Search Industry Awards. In a special session held at the close of Search Solution 2021, it was my honour to announce the winners for the following categories: