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Search Solutions 2007 BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group Tony Rose Vice-Chair, IRSG and Editor, Informer. going further together. The British Computer Society. “The leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems” Established in 1957

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going further together

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  1. Search Solutions 2007 BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group Tony Rose Vice-Chair, IRSG and Editor, Informer going further together

  2. The British Computer Society • “The leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems” • Established in 1957 • World-wide membership of 50,000+ in 100+ countries • The qualifying body for Chartered IT Professionals (CITP) • Licensed to award Chartered Engineer status (CEng)

  3. BCS Organisation • A national network of over 40 branches • A growing number of international sections • More than 50 special interest groups • 6 forums enables members to exchange ideas and keep abreast of latest developments

  4. BCS Specialist Groups • Specialist Groups include HCI, health informatics, project management, requirements engineering, etc. • … including Information Retrieval • Traditional focus on search (text retrieval), but also • Knowledge management • Multimedia retrieval • User experience • Information visualisation, extraction, summarisation, etc.

  5. Information Retrieval SG • Growing rapidly • Annual conference • largely research oriented • Various 1-day events • will also be running evening events • Publishes Informer • free books for review • Provides discounts for various events • … is free to join!

  6. Search Solutions 2007 • Successor to Industry Day 2006 • Practitioner oriented • Likely to become an annual event • Co-organisers: Alex Bailey & Andy MacFarlane • BCS London facilities • Feedback questionnaire

  7. Industry Day Programme • 10:15-12:15 Session 1 • 12:15-13:15 LUNCH • 13:15-14:55 Session 2 • 14:55-15:20 COFFEE BREAK • 15:20-17:00 Session 3 • 17:00CLOSE

  8. Session 1 • Gora Sudindranath, FAST • “Search 2.0: The Future of Search” • Thomas Hoffman, Google • “Delivering Relevant Search Results on a Global Scale” • Fernando Lucini, Autonomy • “Meaning Based Computing: Beyond the Hype of 2.0” • Nick Cox, Yahoo • “MyYahoo - personalising the web”

  9. Session 2 • Alistair Duke, BT Labs • “Semantic Knowledge Management: Finding Information Through Meaning Not Words” • Paul Matthews, ODI • “An evaluation of Google Co-op and Social Bookmarking” • David Milward, Linguamatics • “Flexible Text Mining using Interactive Information Extraction” • Conrad Taylor, BCS EPSG • “Metadata: Solution or Distraction?”

  10. Session 3 • Andrew Maisey, Solcara • “The business benefits of federated searching” • Nick Craswell, Microsoft • “Challenges in Web Information Retrieval” • Nigel Hamilton, Trexy • “Search Trails on the Web” • Lee Atkinson, iDNA Solutions • “Why relevancy based search alone struggles to deliver limited value to the business”

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