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SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2015
Thursday 26 November, Covent Garden, London
(with tutorial programme on Weds 25 November)
Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval
Search Solutions is the premier UK forum for presentation of the
latest innovations in search and information retrieval. In contrast to
other major industry events, Search Solutions aims to be highly interactive,
with attendance strictly limited.
The programme includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by
influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in
search and information retrieval.
Search Solutions includes a Tutorial Programme on Wednesday 25 November
and the main event is on Thursday 26 November.
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09:30 - 10:00 Registration and coffee
SESSION 1: WEB SEARCH CHALLENGES
10:00 - 10:10 Introduction
10:10 - 10:40 Behshad Behzadi, Google, Future of Search
10:40 - 11:10 Fabrizio Silvestri, Yahoo!, Context- and Content-aware Embeddings for Query Rewriting in Sponsored Search
11:10 - 11:40 Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research/Bing, Vectorland: A brief look at text embeddings for Search
11:40 - 12:00 BREAK
SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING USERS AND USER NEEDS
12:00 - 12:30 Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs, User requirements for complex search strategies
12:30 - 13:00 Charlie Hull, Flax, Towards a new model of test-based relevance tuning
13:00 - 14:00 LUNCH
SESSION 3: THE CHANGING FACE OF SEARCH
14:00 - 14:30 Alison Weightman, Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group, Searching and screening efficiency: Emerging techniques for systematic review
14:30 - 15:00 Dave Clarke, Synaptica, Searching inside images: Innovations in visual information retrieval
15:00 - 15:30 Tom Crane, Digirati, New things to search
15:30 - 16:00 BREAK
SESSION 4: SEARCHING THE WORLD’S NEWS
16:00 - 16:30 Tessa Radwan, Newspaper Licensing Agency, Handling printed and online news content in one search solution
16:30 - 17:00 David Corney, Signal, Finding relevance in a real-time, large-scale stream of news articles
17:00 - 17:30 Panel Session (confirmed panellists: Miles Osborne (Bloomberg), Peter Wallqvist (RAVN))
17:30 - 20:00 DRINKS RECEPTION
TUTORIAL PROGRAMME (25 November)
Designing Search
Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs
Crowdsourcing for Data Processing and Search
Gianluca Demartini, University of Sheffield
Text Analysis with GATE,
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield
Evaluating Search
Paul Clough, University of Sheffield
LOCATION
Search Solutions 2015 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, 1st Floor
The Davidson Building
5 Southampton Street
London, WC2E 7HA
http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8404
REGISTRATION
Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows:
Early Bird Rates (until 23:59 on 31-Oct-2015)
* BCS member rate: £99
* Non-member rate: £129
Normal Rates (from 01-Nov-2015)
* BCS member rate: £119
* Non-member rate: £149
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:
Early Bird Rates (until 23:59 on 31-Oct-2015)
BCS member rate: £90
Non-member rate: £110
Normal Rates (from 01-Nov-2015)
BCS member rate: £110
Non-member rate: £130
We are pleased to announce up to five fee waivers for students wishing
to attend Search Solutions this year. See website for further details:
http://irsg.bcs.org/SearchSolutions/2015/sse2015.php
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Tony Russell-Rose PhD FBCS CITP
Vice-chair, BCS IRSG
Chair, IEHF HCI Group
http://uxlabs.co.uk
http://isquared.wordpress.com
