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We’re a community of IT professionals and enthusiasts who are passionate about information retrieval. http://irsg.bcs.org/

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ECIR 2026, the European Conference on Information Retrieval, will take place in Delft next year. Check out their CfP!

03.08.2025 14:38 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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ELLIS ESSIR 2025 Registration is now open! About the School The European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR...

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!

03.06.2025 19:05 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

23.05.2025 13:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ELLIS ESSIR 2025 Registration is now open! About the School The European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is held regularly, providing high-quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR...

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

23.05.2025 13:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Information Retrieval specialist group: Search Solutions | BCS Search Solutions is an annual conference that is usually held in November.

🔍 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 (AI, bias, UX, LLMs & more). Submit by 11 July. Details: www.bcs.org/membership-a... #SearchSolutions #IR #AI #UX #LLM

23.05.2025 12:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones (KSJ) Award 2024 Prize Giving and Keynote at ECIR 2025 By Dr Haiming Liu (Associate Professor at University of Southampton and BCS IRSG Membership Secretary)

@iaugenstein.bsky.social has been crowned last year’s winner of the Karen Spärck Jones Award. Her well-deserved trophy was awarded after delivering a very insightful keynote at ECIR 2025. Read our article in BCS Informer. medium.com/bcs-irsg-inf...

We're seeking nominations for the next KSJ Award!

30.04.2025 10:18 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Karen Spärck Jones Award: Nominations | BCS In order to honour Karen's achievements, the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) in conjunction with the BCS has established an annual award.

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 www.bcs.org/membership-a...

08.04.2025 10:25 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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I'm so grateful to the British Computing Society & Bloomberg for honouring me with the Karen Spärck Jones Award 🙏
I gave the award lecture on LLMs’ Utilisation of Parametric & Contextual Knowledge at #ECIR2025 today (slides: isabelleaugenstein.github.io/slides/2025_...)
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08.04.2025 09:55 — 👍 37    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0
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Many congratulations to the Karen Spärck Jones Award winner @iaugenstein.bsky.social, who gave an exciting keynote on "Understanding the Interplay between LLMs’ Utilisation of Parametric and Contextual Knowledge"! 👏 🎉

We also thank our sponsor @bloomberglp.bsky.social!

#ecir2025

08.04.2025 10:23 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Search Solutions 2024 Tutorials: A Recap of Insightful Discussions By Dr Haiming Liu (Associate Professor at University of Southampton and BCS IRSG Membership Secretary)

As always, BCS Search Solutions was accompanied by some insightful tutorials. Here's a recap of the tutorials even. Get in touch with us if you want to give a tutorial at the next Search Solutions in November!

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17.03.2025 15:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Looking back at Search Solutions 2024 By Gregor Donabauer (IRSG Informer co-Editor)

BCS Search Solutions in London is one of our most popular events, featuring a variety of talks from industry and academia. Search Solutions 2025 is coming back to London in November. Here’s a recap of the 2024 event.

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17.03.2025 15:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Meet the newly elected BCS IRSG committee We are very happy to introduce the new BCS IRSG committee to you. Our constitution defines a number of roles with a two-year term and…

Meet the newly elected BCS IRSG committee! We have a new chair, treasurer and several other new committee members. Interested in shaping the future of the British and European IR community while meeting wonderful people? Join us in this year's election!

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17.03.2025 15:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Search Solutions 2024 | BCS Innovations in Search & Information Retrieval.

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 and you'd like to discuss this with practitioners in the field!

www.bcs.org/membership-a...

23.11.2024 13:32 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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