Transcript Introduction

Search Solutions 2014
Covent Garden, London
27 November 2014
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
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Search Solutions 2014
• Successor to Industry Day 2006, & Search Solutions 2007-13
• Collaboration with ISKO UK
• Organisers:
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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
#SearchSolutions2014
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Programme
10:10-11:25 Session 1
11:25-12:00
Break
12:00-12:50 Session 2
12:50-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:15 Session 3
15:15-15:45
Break
15:45-17:00 Session 4
17:00-17:30 Fishbowl Session
17:30-20:00
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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