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The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) of the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS).
London, UK
Joined April 2013
London is the hub for Search Technology this November! From the 24th–28th, join us for a week of events – including our BCS Search Solutions conference and tutorials. More info:
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We’ve extended the early-bird deadline for our ELLIS ESSIR Information Retrieval Summer School in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7-11. For more information, visit https://t.co/GLRAxeooRC. Horizon Europe-associated countries are eligible for travel support! And you get FDIA 2025 as well!
2025.essir.eu
SCAM ALERT! We have been informed that a company operating under the name Exploreera (using the email address [email protected]) is contacting attendees of ESSIR 2025, claiming to offer...
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FDIA, the Future Directions in Information Access symposium, will take place along the ELLIS ESSIR Summer School. We are calling for papers:
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About The 13th edition of our PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2025) will be held in conjunction with the 16th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR...
ELLIS ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, is taking place in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7–11. Don't miss exciting lectures and tutorials around IR, AI, UX, etc! More info 👉 https://t.co/OXEdi7LeUp
#InformationRetrieval #AI
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ELLIS ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, is taking place in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7–11. Don't miss exciting lectures and tutorials around IR, AI, UX, etc! More info 👉 https://t.co/OXEdi7LeUp
#InformationRetrieval #AI
2025.essir.eu
SCAM ALERT! We have been informed that a company operating under the name Exploreera (using the email address [email protected]) is contacting attendees of ESSIR 2025, claiming to offer...
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Call for proposals: Search Solutions 2025, the UK’s leading forum on Search & IR, is back 26 Nov @ BCS London! We’re seeking talks related to Search research and practice. Submit by 11 July. Details: https://t.co/e1ok2VBPGq
#SearchSolutions #IR #AI #UX #LLM
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SIGIR is in less than 2 months. We have superb keynote speakers and a great research program. Registration is now open https://t.co/os5D7CMQu7 See you all in Italy @SIGIRConf @ACMSIGIR
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The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval | July 13-18, 2025 in Padua, Italy
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We're soon seeking nominations for the next KSJ Award. Get in touch with @HaimingLiu1 and/or check out https://t.co/KRtKeZK3eY!
@IAugenstein has been crowned last year’s winner of the Karen Spärck Jones Award. Her well-deserved trophy was awarded after delivering a highly insightful keynote at ECIR 2025. Read our article in BCS Informer.
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We are very grateful to our KSJ Award sponsor @TechAtBloomberg who has made this possible!
Bloomberg's #AI Engineering Group is proud to sponsor @bcs_irsg's Karen Spärck Jones (KSJ) Award for 2024 - and we congratulate its recipient, Professor Isabelle Augenstein (@IAugenstein) of @uni_copenhagen / @CopeNLU, ahead of her #ECIR2025 keynote today! https://t.co/Svort5X7p2
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🎤 This morning at #ECIR2025 an inspiring keynote by Prof. Isabelle Augenstein @IAugenstein (University of Copenhagen), Karen Spärck Jones Award 2024 👏 Title "Understanding the Interplay between LLMs’ Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge" 👉 https://t.co/SvnEs07D5C
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You know someone who deserves the Karen Spärck Jones Award? Or want to nominate yourself? There will be a new round of nominations soon. More info https://t.co/KRtKeZJvpq.
@HaimingLiu1
#ecir2025
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Many congratulations to the Karen Spärck Jones Award winner @IAugenstein! 👏 🎉 The award was presented @ecir2025 by @HaimingLiu1. We also thank our sponsor @BloombergUK, represented by @edgarmeij! #ecir2025
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At one of my favourite events of the year - Search Solutions in London from @bcs_irsg - and very happy to be quoted by the first speaker!
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BCS Search Solutions will take place in London November 26 (Tutorial Day) and November 27 (Main Conference). You don't want to miss this if Search, IR, GenAI and RAG tell you something. More info and registration:
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Our annual BCS Search Solutions conference will take place Nov 26+27. 2 tutorials Nov 26 (Technology Assisted Review, Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Main conference Nov 27, w/ leading practitioners and researchers talking about search-related topics.
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Programme details and registration link for Search Solutions 2024.
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We are happy to announce the next London #InformationRetrieval & #AI Meetup! Join us on Nov 25 at 6:00 PM (GMT) at @bcs_irsg London, or tune in virtually if you can’t attend in person! Register for free: https://t.co/E9h1bVoEXg
#London #RAG #Vectorsearch
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#ECIR2025 ‼️Full Papers abstracts are due in **2 days**‼️ 👉 https://t.co/3oaW958urw Abstract submission: Oct. 2, 2024. Full paper submission: Oct. 9, 2024. Notification: Dec. 16, 2024.
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The September 27th deadline is looming for nominations for our 3 prestigious international awards focused on #informationretrieval, #search, #library & #informationservices and #openscience/#openaccess @CILIPinfo @iSchools @ISKOUK @RSC_CICAG @bcs_irsg
https://t.co/o1yhPZoKxS
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BCS Informer is back at a new location – please see https://t.co/6GLhz7w2k6!
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Informer of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group
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Like to speak at BCS Search Solutions in November in London? We are still calling for proposals for talks around search, retrieval and recommendation in enterprise environments. Deadline June 14. More info at https://t.co/gHX0ErXxgL or contact @tonygrr.
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