TALMIRI

Talent meets IR Industry

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Putteridge Bury, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK

TALMIRI is over. Martin White wrote a nice article in BCS Informer about our event.

A symposium to bring together talented early-stage researchers, academics and information retrieval industry with invited speakers in an iconic location in Bedfordshire, UK. Practioners and researchers, in particular but not exclusively PhD/MSc students and early-stage researchers, are invited to present (as poster or demo) their exciting search and information retrieval related work to IR experts and industry.

TALMIRI is a one-day symposium to bring together young and senior researchers and practitioners from industry on topics related to search and information retrieval. Speakers from industry will give talks about industry-related topics and problems in the area of enterprise search and search and IR applied to industrial problems. Furthermore, young researchers, in particular PhD students, will be given the opportunity to present and discuss their work and ideas with industry practitioners and senior researchers. There will be mixed talks given by industry practitioners with presentations given by academics and early-stage researchers/PhD/MSc students. In a poster session, delegates and students can further discuss their work and ideas. This informal one-day event aims to raise awareness of industry-relevant topics on one hand and the cutting-edge works of researchers on the other hand, to foster knowledge transfer and encourage discussion as well as networking in a relaxed and constructive atmosphere.

During the event, the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group will hold its annual general meeting. All delegates are invited to participate.

Date and Location

Putteridge Bury country house, room PB107

TALMIRI will be held at the University of Bedfordshire’s Putteridge Bury country house (http://www.beds.ac.uk/putteridgebury) that has hosted several conferences and social events in the past. The event will take place on September 18, 2019, room PB107. Putteridge Bury is located close to Luton at the Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire border (please see https://goo.gl/maps/Hg4Trd4qYM5WdSkJA). Luton is located just 30 minutes away north from the centre of London by road or rail and 2 hours away from the south or east coast.

Information about Putteridge Bury and how to reach it

Presentation Proposal Submission

Practitioners and researchers (in particular, students and early-stage researchers) are invited to present. Please submit an abstract of your presentation (maximum 1 page) via email to Ingo Frommholz (ingo.frommholz@beds.ac.uk). Please add the keyword 'TALMIRI' to the subject of your email. Attendance confirmation will be sent soon after submission. All accepted submissions are expected to be presented as poster or demo; we will invite some to additionally prepare a short presentation.

Registration

Please register via our Eventbrite registration page. The event is free-of-charge.

Confirmed Talks and Schedule

09:30 – 10:30 Industry Talks

Dyaa Albakour (Signal A.I.): Evaluation with the long tail
Martin White (Intranet Focus Ltd and University of Sheffield): Enterprise Search - Collecting the Evidence

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00 Student Presentations

Steven Zimmerman (University of Essex): Towards Understanding User Impacts and Concerns: Experimental Findings in Privacy Protective Search Engine Results Pages
Amit Kumar Jaiswal (University of Bedfordshire): Interactive IR using Information Foraging Theory and Beyond

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break (buffet)

13:00 – 14:00 BCS-IRSG AGM

14:00 – 15:00 Industry Talks

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30 (Student) poster session and discussion

16:30 – 17:00 Wrap-up and closing

Speaker bio and abstracts