Search Solutions 2014Covent Garden, London

27 November 2014

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Information Retrieval Specialist Group

•Scope: Knowledge management, multimedia retrieval, user experience, visualisation, extraction, summarisation, etc.

•Events

– Conferences: ECIR, ICTIR

– Various 1-day events

• Informer

•Mailing list with ~1,000 members

Search Solutions 2014

•Successor to Industry Day 2006, & Search Solutions 2007-13•Collaboration with ISKO UK•Organisers:

– Dyaa Albakour (Glasgow University)– Philip Carlisle (English Heritage)– Udo Kruschwitz (Essex University)– Andy MacFarlane (City University London)– Tony Russell-Rose (UXLabs)– John Tait (johntait.net)– Nilesh Thatte (Fujitsu)

•BCS London facilities

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#SearchSolutions2014

Programme

10:10-11:25 Session 111:25-12:00 Break

12:00-12:50 Session 2 12:50-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15 Session 315:15-15:45 Break

15:45-17:00 Session 4

17:00-17:30 Fishbowl Session17:30-20:00 Drinks Reception

18:00-19:00 IRSG AGM

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Session One: WEB SEARCH CHALLENGES

•10:10 - 10:35 Peter Mika, Yahoo!, Semantic Search at Yahoo

•10:35 - 11:00 Christopher Semturs, Google, Web search at scale - more than just 10 blue links

•11:00 - 11:25 Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research, Learning to interact

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Session Two: MORE THAN SEARCH

•12:00 - 12:25 Tom Mortimer, Flax, Elasticsearch and SolrCloud, a performance comparison

•12:25 - 12:50 Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, Leveraging Terrier v4.0 for New Search Scenarios, from Smart Cities to Medical Search

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Session Three: UNDERSTANDING THE USER

•14:00 - 14:25 Dan Jackson, UCL, Implementing Website Search in a Major University

•14:25 - 14:50 Richard Boulton Cabinet Office, Tailoring search across government content on GOV.UK

•14:50 - 15:15 Dominic Oldman, British Museum, Contextual Semantic Search of Cultural Data

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Session Four: ENTERPRISE SEARCH

•15:45 - 16:10 Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai, How to tell what is going on (or not going on) - media monitoring in internet text is not about search but about keeping track

•16:10 - 16:35 Richard Ranft , British Library, Exploring a million hours of sounds

•16:35 - 17:00 Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters, Commercial Research, Development and Innovation in Information Access

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Fishbowl Session

•17:00 - 17:30 Hot topics in search. Want to discuss your own hot topic? Join in, it's a fishbowl session!

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