Informer: Autumn 2022 Issue Out Now

Informer: Autumn 2022 Issue Out Now

http://irsg.bcs.org/informer/


In the Autumn issue
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

Let me start with IRSG business. Udo has written his last post as Chair as
a new Chair will take over after the AGM on 23 November.   There have been
no candidates to take on the Editorship of Informer so next year we are
planning to publish just two issues (in April and November) in what we hope
will be an interim situation just for the coming year...

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/in-the-autumn-issue/


From the BCS IRSG Chair
By Udo Kruschwitz on 3rd November 2022

Welcome to this autumn issue of Informer from your Chair. Hopefully you had
a spectacular summer (or winter if you happen to be in Australia) with
plenty of sun (or snow) and perhaps some conference trips?

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/from-the-bcs-irsg-chair-2/


IRSG AGM and Elections
By Steven Zimmerman on 3rd November 2022

The BCS IRSG Annual General Meeting (AGM) is scheduled to take place on
Wednesday November 23rd at 6PM.  The AGM will take place immediately
following the close of Search Solutions 2022, which is being held at the
BCS London office at 25 Copthall Avenue
London EC2R 7BP.    As with the Search Solutions conference, the AGM will
be run in a hybrid format...

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/irsg-agm-and-elections/


Informer in 2023
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

For most of its history Informer has been published four times a year. In
2023 the plan is to publish just two issues because efforts to find someone
to take over the editorship have not been successful. I have agreed to
continue to act as Editor but because of other commitments I can only
commit to two issues. One of these commitments is specifying a new
publishing platform for Informer – if you have any suggestions from your
own experience please let me know...

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/informer-in-2023/

Search Solutions Conference 2022 – London, 23 November
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

Search Solutions 2022 will take place at the BCS London office at 25
Copthall Avenue London, EC2R 7BP, which is a 10 minute walk from either
Liverpool Street or Moorgate Underground stations.

Session 1: The Search Experience: Focus on the users
Session 2: Beyond keyword search: Semantic/conversational/audio search
Session 3: Search with an impact: Searching health-related information
Session 4: A world beyond web search: enterprise search
Registration
BCS Members: £92.00
Non-Members: £110.00
Students: £80.00

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/search-solutions-conference-2022-london-23-november/


Search Solutions Tutorials 2022 – London 22 November
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

The Search Solution Tutorials will take place at the BCS London office at
25 Copthall Avenue, London, EC2R 7BP. This is around a 10 minute walk from
either Liverpool Street or Moorgate underground stations.

Tutorial 1 – Full day - IR From Bag-of-words to BERT and Beyond through
Practical Experiments
Tutorial 2 – Morning - Approaching Neural Search with Apache Solr and
Open-source technologies
Tutorial 3 – Afternoon - Simplifying NLP researchers work with Datafari
Open Source
Tutorial 4 – Full Day - Diverse Approaches to Systematic Searching
BCS Members: £80.00
Non-Members: £95.00
Students: £65.00

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/search-solutions-tutorials-2022-london-22-november/


Perspectives on the EU Horizon DoSSIER Project
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

In this feature item there are three excellent contributions from members
of the DoSSIER project. DoSSIER is an acronym for an EU Horizon 2020
ITN/ETN on Domain Specific Systems for Information Extraction and
Retrieval...

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/perspectives-on-the-eu-horizon-dossier-project/

The evolution of Datafari, a European open source enterprise search
application – Cedric Ulmer CEO
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

I have recently been asked for a customer to deliver an analysis of
available open source solutions as a replacement to a decade old
proprietary enterprise search solution. In this article, I wanted to share
the outcome of this analysis, and to give an outlook of how we perceive the
future of such solutions....

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/the-evolution-of-datafari-a-european-open-source-enterprise-search-application-cedric-ulmer-ceo/

Carlos Cuadra 1925-2022 A pioneer in commercial IR service development
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

Carlos Cuadra died in August this year. I doubt many readers of Informer
will recognize the name but Carlos was a remarkable innovator in
information retrieval in the 1960s and 1970s. Almost all his development
work was carried out in a commercial environment, notably at System
Development Corporation...

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/carlos-cuadra-1925-2022-a-pioneer-in-commercial-ir-service-development/

The Book of Search – Book Review
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

Spoiler alert – this is a review of a book published in 2006!

First a short history lesson.  FAST Search and Transfer was founded in 1997
to commercialize search technology developed at the University of
Trondheim. The subsequent history of FAST is difficult to untangle as the
company seemed adept at delivering some very neat search technology and
raising question-marks about its accounting practices...

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/the-book-of-search-book-review/

A History of Enterprise Search 1938-2022
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

If you will exclude some self-promotion from the Editor, last month my book
A History of Enterprise Search 1938-2022 was published under the PressBooks
imprint of the University of Sheffield. If you have cause to doubt that
there were any enterprise search initiatives in 1938 then you should
certainly read this book. Enterprise search has been around for a very long
time...

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/a-history-of-enterprise-search-1938-2022/

Books for search researchers and search managers
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

For some time now I have maintained a list of books on the Intranet Focus
web site that I think would be of interest to search researchers and search
managers. I am in the process of rebuilding the web site and so many of the
internal links to reviews of the books will no longer exist. I have now
revised the list so that the links are to the web sites of the publishers
and so should stand the test of time...

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/books-for-search-researchers-and-search-managers/

Events Autumn 2022
By Andy Macfarlane on 3rd November 2022

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...

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/events-autumn-2022/

And finally….!
By Martin White on 3rd November 2022

As I undertake my daily scanning of the research papers on information
retrieval, I continue to be impressed with the level of innovation that I
see. Clearly significant advances are being made into many areas. My
concern is how these advances are going to feed into search products that
are going to make a commensurate advance in the findability experienced by
employees in their daily work...

https://irsg.bcs.org/informer/2022/11/and-finally-7/

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Opportunities for Authors
If you are an expert in information retrieval or any aspect of search who
has strong writing skills, we invite you to contribute to Informer. Please
send an article proposal to us at: irsg-odSCf/[email protected]
For more information about the BCS IRSG, please go to:
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About Informer
Informer is the quarterly newsletter of the BCS Information Retrieval
Specialist Group (IRSG). Its aim is to provide insights and inspiration to
researchers and professionals working in all aspects of search and
information retrieval. Our articles provide accessible and timely coverage
of important topics, ranging from focused, practical advice, to concise
overviews of broader topics, and to deeper, research-oriented articles and
opinion pieces.

The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS. Its mission is to provide a focus
for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers
and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry.
We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated
programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG is free to join via
the BCS website, which provides access to further IR articles, events and
resources.

BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100
countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned
society in the field of computers and information systems.

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