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.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Fabrizio Silvestri, Yahoo!
TBD
Michaela Regneri, Spiegel Verlag
Information Management & Search @ DER SPIEGEL
Behshad Behzadi, Google
TBD
Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research / Bing
2vec or not to vec: A brief look at text embeddings for Search
Tessa Radwan, Newspaper Licensing Agency
Handling printed and online news content in one search solution
Tom Crane, Digirati
New things to search
Alison Weightman, Cochrane Information Retrieval Methods Group
Searching and screening efficiency: Emerging techniques for systematic review
Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs
User requirements for complex search strategies
Dave Clarke, Synaptica
TBD
David Corney, Signal
Finding relevance in a real-time, large-scale stream of news articles
Charlie Hull, Flax
Towards a new model of test-based relevance tuning
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 until 23:59 on 17-Nov-2015) BCS member rate: £110 Non-member rate: £130
Closing Date for tutorial bookings is 23:59 on Wednesday 11th November 2015 at 11:59 pm. No more bookings will be taken after this date.
Cancellations & Refunds Full refund available if cancellation received before 12pm on Monday 16th November 2015. Name substitutions will be allowed if notified before the closing date.
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