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SIGIR 2012 Industry Track Programme now online
What a list of speakers! We did our best to compile an amazing...
SIGIR 2012 Industry Track
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5th IRF Conference, Vienna, Austria, 2-3 July 2012
The Call for Papers has just been released!
IRF Conference 2012 ir-facility.org
General Chair: Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Programme Chairs: Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, DK) Michail Salampasis (Vienna University of Technology, AT) Venue: Vienna...

Start Up Competition closes 11 May 2012
The Thinking Digitial Conference in Gateshead/Newcastle (UK) is running a compeittion for companies stated after 1 January 2011.

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Calling Highly Innovative European Small Businesses
Many of you seem to work for smaller innovative businesses, and for those in the EU this is targeted at you.
It provides a high level ...

Initial Poll surveygizmo.com
We are carrying out this poll as part of the LIS Research Coalition RiLIES2 project (http://lisresearch.org/rilies-project/). The project's goal is to produce research resources and training material to support librarians and...

Designing Search (part 3): Keeping on track isquared.wordpress.com
In the previous post we looked at techniques to help us create and articulate more effective queries. From auto-complete for lookup tasks to auto-suggest for exploratory search, these simple techni...

ACL 2012 Workshop on “Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries” , July 2012, Korea
Really fascinating looking workshop on learning from the past and making the older literature more available.
As many of you know I'm ...

IR and MT in Avignon, France in April
There have been many attempts to link Machine Translation and Information Retrieval, going right back to the 1950's.
Recent advances ...

Lemur/INDRI for production applications
Is Lemur/INDRI being used for new production applications? Or is it more a research tool these days?
I know it's been used in ...

4th Intl Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval - October 24, 2011 - Glasgow, UK. See agenda http://bit.ly/qP5pr5 and register before...
The 4th Intl Workshop on Patent IR showcases the latest IR technology put to use in the patent domain. Two distinguished invited ...

Information Interaction isquared.wordpress.com
Last Wednesday I had the privilege of co-chairing the 5th Search Solutions conference, held at BCS London in Covent Garden. As in previous years we had an eclectic mix of presentations, panels and ...

One Thousand Members of IASP!
I would like to welcome Sofus Macskassy, our 1000th member!
The members of IASP are from all round the globe (although I'm not sure we ...

Eligibility for IASP
Since the group started we have had a policy of only accepting recruiters if they are specialists in IASP and related areas.
So we have ...

Information Interaction isquared.wordpress.com
Last week I attended the October edition of the London Enterprise Search meetup, which gave us (among other things) our usual monthly fix of great talks and follow up discussions. This time, one of...


Free Seminar on Patent Search and Analytics
I don't know if its of any interest to members of the group, but I am giving a seminar at the University of Corunna, Spain on Tuesday 20 ...
