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

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

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)

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

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.

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!

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

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

Session 1 Gora Sudindranath, FAST –“Search 2.0: The Future of Search”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”Meaning Based Computing: Beyond the Hype of 2.0 Nick Cox, Yahoo –“MyYahoo - personalising the web”MyYahoo - personalising the web

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”An evaluation of Google Co-op and Social Bookmarking David Milward, Linguamatics –“Flexible Text Mining using Interactive Information Extraction”Flexible Text Mining using Interactive Information Extraction Conrad Taylor, BCS EPSG –“Metadata: Solution or Distraction?”Metadata: Solution or Distraction

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