1. Search Solutions 2014 Covent Garden, London 27 November 2014

2. Search Solutions 2011 2 Information Retrieval Specialist Group Scope: Knowledge management, multimedia retrieval, user experience, visualisation, extraction, summarisation, etc. Events –Conferences: ECIR, ICTIR –Various 1-day events Informer Mailing list with ~1,000 members

3. Search Solutions 2014 Successor to Industry Day 2006, & Search Solutions 2007-13 Collaboration with ISKO UK Organisers: –Dyaa Albakour (Glasgow University) –Philip Carlisle (English Heritage) –Udo Kruschwitz (Essex University) –Andy MacFarlane (City University London) –Tony Russell-Rose (UXLabs) –John Tait (johntait.net) –Nilesh Thatte (Fujitsu) BCS London facilities Search Solutions 2011 3 #SearchSolutions2014

4. Programme 10:10-11:25Session 1 11:25-12:00Break 12:00-12:50Session 2 12:50-14:00Lunch 14:00-15:15Session 3 15:15-15:45Break 15:45-17:00Session 4 17:00-17:30Fishbowl Session 17:30-20:00Drinks Reception 18:00-19:00IRSG AGM Search Solutions 2011 4

5. Session One: WEB SEARCH CHALLENGES 10:10 - 10:35 Peter Mika, Yahoo!, Semantic Search at Yahoo 10:35 - 11:00 Christopher Semturs, Google, Web search at scale - more than just 10 blue links 11:00 - 11:25 Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research, Learning to interact Search Solutions 2011 5

6. Session Two: MORE THAN SEARCH 12:00 - 12:25 Tom Mortimer, Flax, Elasticsearch and SolrCloud, a performance comparison 12:25 - 12:50 Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, Leveraging Terrier v4.0 for New Search Scenarios, from Smart Cities to Medical Search Search Solutions 2011 6

7. Session Three: UNDERSTANDING THE USER 14:00 - 14:25 Dan Jackson, UCL, Implementing Website Search in a Major University 14:25 - 14:50 Richard Boulton Cabinet Office, Tailoring search across government content on GOV.UK 14:50 - 15:15 Dominic Oldman, British Museum, Contextual Semantic Search of Cultural Data Search Solutions 2011 7

8. Session Four: ENTERPRISE SEARCH 15:45 - 16:10 Jussi Karlgren, Gavagai, How to tell what is going on (or not going on) - media monitoring in internet text is not about search but about keeping track 16:10 - 16:35 Richard Ranft, British Library, Exploring a million hours of sounds 16:35 - 17:00 Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters, Commercial Research, Development and Innovation in Information Access Search Solutions 2011 8

9. Fishbowl Session 17:00 - 17:30 Hot topics in search. Want to discuss your own hot topic? Join in, it's a fishbowl session! Search Solutions 2011 9