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Fancy giving a tutorial at BCS Search Solutions? We are calling for tutorials for our Tutorial Day on Tuesday Nov 26 (the day before the BCS Search Solutions event). More info at bcs.org/membership-and…

Like to speak at BCS Search Solutions in November in London? We are still calling for proposals for talks around search, retrieval and recommendation in enterprise environments. Deadline June 14. More info at bcs.org/membership-and… or contact Tony Russell-Rose.

BCS Informer is back at a new location – please see medium.com/bcs-irsg-infor…!

The September 27th deadline is looming for nominations for our 3 prestigious international awards focused on #informationretrieval, #search, #library & #informationservices and #openscience/#openaccess CILIP iSchools ISKO UK RSC_CICAG BCS IRSG cilip.org.uk/members/group_…

#ECIR2025 ‼️Full Papers abstracts are due in **2 days**‼️ 👉ecir2025.eu/call-for-full-… Abstract submission: Oct. 2, 2024. Full paper submission: Oct. 9, 2024. Notification: Dec. 16, 2024.

We are happy to announce the next London #InformationRetrieval & #AI Meetup! Join us on Nov 25 at 6:00 PM (GMT) at BCS IRSG London, or tune in virtually if you can’t attend in person! Register for free: meetup.com/london-informa… #London #RAG #Vectorsearch

Our annual BCS Search Solutions conference will take place Nov 26+27. 2 tutorials Nov 26 (Technology Assisted Review, Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Main conference Nov 27, w/ leading practitioners and researchers talking about search-related topics. medium.com/bcs-irsg-infor…

We are on Bluesky now! bsky.app/profile/bcs-ir…

BCS Search Solutions will take place in London November 26 (Tutorial Day) and November 27 (Main Conference). You don't want to miss this if Search, IR, GenAI and RAG tell you something. More info and registration: bcs.org/membership-and…

At one of my favourite events of the year - Search Solutions in London from BCS IRSG - and very happy to be quoted by the first speaker!

Many congratulations to the Karen Spärck Jones Award winner Isabelle Augenstein! 👏 🎉 The award was presented ECIR2025 by Haiming Liu. We also thank our sponsor Bloomberg UK, represented by Edgar Meij! #ecir2025

🎤 This morning at #ECIR2025 an inspiring keynote by Prof. Isabelle Augenstein Isabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen), Karen Spärck Jones Award 2024 👏 Title "Understanding the Interplay between LLMs’ Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge" 👉ecir2025.eu/keynote-speake…

You know someone who deserves the Karen Spärck Jones Award? Or want to nominate yourself? There will be a new round of nominations soon. More info bcs.org/membership-and…. Haiming Liu #ecir2025

We are very grateful to our KSJ Award sponsor Tech At Bloomberg who has made this possible!

We're soon seeking nominations for the next KSJ Award. Get in touch with Haiming Liu and/or check out bcs.org/membership-and…!

SIGIR is in less than 2 months. We have superb keynote speakers and a great research program. Registration is now open sigir2025.dei.unipd.it See you all in Italy SIGIR 2025 ACM SIGIR

Call for proposals: Search Solutions 2025, the UK’s leading forum on Search & IR, is back 26 Nov @ BCS London! We’re seeking talks related to Search research and practice. Submit by 11 July. Details: bcs.org/membership-and… #SearchSolutions #IR #AI #UX #LLM

ELLIS ESSIR 2025, the European Summer School on Information Retrieval, is taking place in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7–11. Don't miss exciting lectures and tutorials around IR, AI, UX, etc! More info 👉 2025.essir.eu #InformationRetrieval #AI

FDIA, the Future Directions in Information Access symposium, will take place along the ELLIS ESSIR Summer School. We are calling for papers: 2025.essir.eu/fdia

We’ve extended the early-bird deadline for our ELLIS ESSIR Information Retrieval Summer School in Wolverhampton, UK, July 7-11. For more information, visit 2025.essir.eu. Horizon Europe-associated countries are eligible for travel support! And you get FDIA 2025 as well!