Search Solutions 2022: Registration open + Confirmed speakers

Search Solutions 2022
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Weds 23 November 10:00 - 18:00
https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/information-retrieval-specialist-group/conferences-and-events/search-solutions/

Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval

Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual forum focused on practitioner issues and latest innovations in the area of Search and Information Retrieval. The programme includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval.


CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (Wednesday 23 November)

* Amy Walduck (State Library of Queensland) “The Topography of Searching: Visualising search data“	
* Brammert Ottens (Spotify) “Finding the Right Audio Content for You”
* Farhad Shokraneh (Institute of Health Informatics, University College London) “The Futures of Systematic Searching”	
* Filip Radlinski (Google) "Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation" 								
* Gavin Moore & Andrew Doyle (University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust) “A Programmable Search – A Solution to Finding Guidelines and Patient Information?”
* Julien Massiera & Cedric Ulmer (France Labs) “Combining Spacy with Datafari Community Edition to enable semantic Enterprise Search”								
* Mohamed Yahya (Bloomberg) “Taking Question Answering from Research Prototype to Product”
* Natasha den Dekker (LexisNexis) “How to conduct empathetic user research to test the search experience of users?”
* Phil Lewis (Pureinsights) “Practical Applications of Knowledge Graphs and AI in Search”


TUTORIALS (Tuesday 22 November)

Tutorial 1 – Full day
IR From Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond through Practical Experiments
* Sean MacAvaney (University of Glasgow), Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow), Nicola Tonellotto (University of Pisa)

Tutorial 2 – AM
Approaching Neural Search with Apache Solr and Open-source technologies
* Alessandro Benedetti (CEO @ Sease Ltd, Apache Lucene/Solr Committer, Apache Solr PMC Member)

Tutorial 3 – PM
Simplifying NLP researchers work with Datafari Open Source
* Julien Massiera (France Labs), Cedric Ulmer (France Labs) 

Tutorial 4 – Full Day
Diverse Approaches to Systematic Searching
* Farhad Shokraneh (Institute of Health Informatics, University College London)


LOCATION

Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) and ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and is held at the BCS Central London Office:

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Ground Floor
25 Copthall Avenue
London
EC2R 7BP
https://www.bcs.org/more/about-us/hire-our-london-office/


REGISTRATION
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/search-solutions-2022-inc-tutorials-information-retrieval-sg-tickets-433482236037

Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows:
* BCS member rate: £92
* Non-member rate: £110
* Students: £80

Registration fees include lunch and a copy of the proceedings.
Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening.

Tutorials are payable separately. The registration fees for tutorials are as follows:
* BCS member rate: £80
* Non-member rate: £95
* Students: £65


Organisers
* Ingo Frommholz
* Frank Hopfgartner
* Udo Kruschwitz
* Tony Russell-Rose
* Martin White
* Haiming Liu (tutorials chair)


Contact
For further details, contact irsg-odSCf/[email protected]

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