Search Solutions 2020 24th/25th November – MDG Members Discounts

We are pleased to announce that MDG has partnered with BCS IRSG to secure discounted registration on Search Solutions 2020 for MDG members.
Main event: Weds 25 November, ONLINE
Tutorial: Tues 24 November, ONLINE

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. Search Solutions offers a tutorial programme the day before the main event.

Due to the COVID-19 situation, Search Solutions 2020 will be completely online, making it accessible for a worldwide audience. Further information about Search Solutions 2020 including past events can be found at https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Firsg.bcs.org%2FSearchSolutions%2F2020%2Fsse2020.php&data=04%7C01%7Cjdaniels%40CARDIFFMET.AC.UK%7C2f5b40aa690a4aa789ae08d88754bd42%7C189dc61c769b40488b0f6de074bba26c%7C0%7C0%7C637408145755697049%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=u54M1k4v5en2a7G04QV8pfZH5FKNp%2FVdngEowyjs7Yg%3D&reserved=0. Further information about tutorials can be found at https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Firsg.bcs.org%2FSearchSolutions%2F2020%2Fss2020tutorials.php&data=04%7C01%7Cjdaniels%40CARDIFFMET.AC.UK%7C2f5b40aa690a4aa789ae08d88754bd42%7C189dc61c769b40488b0f6de074bba26c%7C0%7C0%7C637408145755707040%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=wdNieEHFIbIMpB36298ZlLUpfcfU3Li%2FpkA6N0qx%2F%2BY%3D&reserved=0.


PROGRAMME (Wed November 25) – UK timezone

10:00-10:05 Introduction
SESSION 1
10.05-10.35 Elaine Toms, University of Sheffield: Conceptualising Search as a Set of Cognitive Prostheses
10.35-11.05 David Maxwell, University of Delft: Searching, Stopping and User Modelling
11.05-11.15 Q&A

SESSION 2
11.30-12.00 Paul Cleverley, Infoscience Technologies: The Impact of COVID-19 on Enterprise Search
12.00-12.30 Paul Levay, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Systematic searching in the age of uncertainty: identifying the evidence for NICE guidelines
12.30-12.45 Q&A
12.45-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-13.35 Introduction
SESSION 3
13.35-14.05 Charlie Hull, OpenSource Connections: Building the best ecommerce search with open source software
14.05-14.35 Agnes Molnar, Search Explained: Impact of information quality on successful enterprise search implementation – a case study
14.35-14.45 Q&A
SESSION 4
14.45-15.15 Marianne Sweeney, Daedelus Information Systems: IR Intelligence: Introduction to Neural IR & Learning To Rank
15.15-15.45 Michael Bendersky, Google: TF-Ranking: Learning-to-Rank in Tensorflow
15.45-15.55 Q&A
SESSION 5
16.05–16.35 Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs/Goldsmiths University of London: Searching fast & slow
16.35-17.05 Jeremy Pickens, OpenText: Challenges and Opportunities in Ediscovery and Information Governance: Not Everything is Big Data

SESSION 6
17.10–17.40 Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Northeastern University at Silicon Valley: Search Biases
17.40–18.00 Q&A and closing remarks



TUTORIAL (Tues November 24)

Alexander Kuhnle, Miguel Aroca-Ouellette, John Reid, Dell Zhang (Blue Prism AI Labs): Reinforcement Learning for Information Retrieval (Full-day Tutorial)
https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Firsg.bcs.org%2FSearchSolutions%2F2020%2Fss2020tutorials.php&data=04%7C01%7Cjdaniels%40CARDIFFMET.AC.UK%7C2f5b40aa690a4aa789ae08d88754bd42%7C189dc61c769b40488b0f6de074bba26c%7C0%7C0%7C637408145755707040%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=wdNieEHFIbIMpB36298ZlLUpfcfU3Li%2FpkA6N0qx%2F%2BY%3D&reserved=0


LOCATION
Online: for further details see https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Firsg.bcs.org%2FSearchSolutions%2F2020%2Fsse2020.php&data=04%7C01%7Cjdaniels%40CARDIFFMET.AC.UK%7C2f5b40aa690a4aa789ae08d88754bd42%7C189dc61c769b40488b0f6de074bba26c%7C0%7C0%7C637408145755707040%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=AJyguFvpqR%2FjMS4Us17NLjdsTwBH%2FMQfqUEeUAvSKBY%3D&reserved=0


REGISTRATION
Please register at https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Firsgss2020.eventbrite.co.uk%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cjdaniels%40CARDIFFMET.AC.UK%7C2f5b40aa690a4aa789ae08d88754bd42%7C189dc61c769b40488b0f6de074bba26c%7C0%7C0%7C637408145755707040%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=l1JeR1pHYZ9xBQy2TqL27sWtdLlhDlep36qtkqF2FHA%3D&reserved=0.
Registration fees (including VAT) are as follows:

        • Search Solutions + Tutorial (BCS/ISKO/CILIP MDG member): £20.00
        • Search Solutions + Tutorial (Students): £13.00
        • Search Solutions + Tutorial (Non-Member): £25.00

        • Search Solutions only (BCS/ISKO/CILIP MDG member): £15.00
        • Search Solutions only (Students): £10.00
        • Search Solutions only (Non-Member): £20.00

        • Tutorial only (BCS/ISKO/CLIP MDG  member): £10.00
        • Tutorial only (Students): £5.00
        • Tutorial only (Non-Member): £15.00

Organising Committee
Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire
Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs and Goldsmiths, University of London
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg
Stefan Rueger, Open University
Dyaa Albakour, Signal AI
Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd
Haiming Liu, University of Bedfordshire

Enquiries
For further enquiries please contact Ingo Frommholz <ifrommholz@acm.org>.

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