SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2016
Wednesday 30 November, Covent Garden, London
Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval
Search Solutions is a special one-day event dedicated to 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 also includes a Tutorial Programme on Tuesday 29th November.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Sebastian Blohm, Microsoft Research
Focused Inbox: Learning personalized e-mail filters for Millions of users
Qin Yin, Google
TBD
Marc Bron, Yahoo!
Incorporating Implicit and Explicit User Experience Signals in Ad Quality Ranking
Vassilis Plachouras Thomson-Reuters
Interacting with Financial Data using Natural Language Generation
Graham Digby, Lexis Nexis
TBD
Matthew Karas, Speech Engineering Limited
Speech-Based Archive Search in the Real World
Paul Cleverley, Robert Gordon University
Enterprise Search: “I can’t get no satisfaction”: A study of explicit feedback from the user interface
TUTORIAL PROGRAMME (29 November)
Tutorial 1 – Designing Search.
Instructor: Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs Ltd
Tutorial 2 – Query Log Mining for Inferring User Tasks and Needs.
Instructors: Emine Yilmaz and Rishabh Mehrotra, UCL
Tutorial 3 – Text Analysis with GATE,
Instructor: Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield
Tutorial 4 – Enterprise search evaluation – good practice in action.
Instructors: Paul Clough, University of Sheffield and Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd.
LOCATION
Search Solutions 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?
REGISTRATION
Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows:
Early Bird Rates (until 23:59 on 31-Oct)
* BCS member rate: £99
* Non-member rate: £129
Normal Rates (from 01-Nov)
* 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)
BCS member rate: £90
Non-member rate: £110
Normal Rates (from 01-Nov-2016 until 23:59)
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/
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