A festival of information retrieval held in Glasgow before ECIR 2017, and a bus "Tour de Scotland" en route to Aberdeen
Find Out More| Thursday 6th April | |
| 1830 - 2100 | Evening Reception @ BrewDog Pub, 1400 Argyle St, Glasgow G3 8AN [MAP] Aperitifs and h'orderves during a casual reception. Try a variety of local ales, beers, IPAs & stouts from breweries from around Scotland and the UK. Dinner can be purchased in Brew Dog or at nearby restaurants. |
| Friday 7th April | |
| 0900 - 1730 | Workshop @ Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow G12 8QQ [MAP] Registration from 0830. Lunch and afternoon poster reception with canapes is included. |
| 1830 - 2100 | Evening Reception @ Curler's Rest, Byres Road, Westend, Glasgow G12 8SH [MAP]
Dinner can be purchased in Curler's Rest or at nearby restaurants. |
| Saturday 8th April | |
| 0900 - 0910 | Meet @ Wolfson Medical Building for bus to Aberdeen Don't be late, the bus won't wait! |
Jaana Kekalainen, University of Tampere: Realistic Interactive IR Experiments & Simulation
(Chaired by Prof. Iadh Ounis)
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam: IR + AI
(Chaired by Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen)
Noreen Adams, BBC: Digital Archives at the BBC
Stuart Miller, Verint: Information Retrieval for Knowledge Management in a changing world
Ludovico Boratto, Eurecat: Balancing Individual and Group Satisfaction in the Evaluation of Group Recommender Systems
Gordon Mullins, SAS: Intelligence Analytics
Frank Hopfgartner, University of Glasgow: Catching up with Industry - Online Evaluation of Information Access
Diane Pennington, University of Glasgow: Making Emotional Information Retrieval a Reality
Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire: Mind the Gap! Bibliometric-Enhanced Information Retrieval for Scholars’ Complex Information Needs
Haiming Liu, University of Bedfordshire: Quick Idea Generation Using Positive Emotion Activity in Interactive Information Retrieval
Leif Azzopardi, University of Strathclyde: Technologically Assisted Reviews in Empirical Medicine
Walid Magdy, University of Edinburgh: Unsupervised Adaptive Microblog Filtering for Broad Dynamic Topics
Martin Halvey, University of Strathclyde: Voice Based Search: Is information Retrieval Enough?
Nicola Tonellotto, National Research Council of Italy: Energy Efficiency in Web Search Engines
Emine Yilmaz, UCL: Inferring Search Tasks from Query Logs
Ismail Sengor Altvingode, Middle East Technical University: Web Science & Information Retrieval (WebSIR) Group at METU - Current Research Directions
Yashar Mosfeghi, University of Glasgow: Identifying Relevance and Need in the Brain
Richard McCreadie, University of Glasgow: Social Media Mining for Emergency Disaster Response
See the programme for details!
Held in Glasgow just before the start of ECIR 2017 in Abderdeen, we'll be having a workshop with invited speakers focussing on new and emerging topics in IR.
Agenda:
Thursday 6th April: Evening Meal
Friday 7th April: Invited talks and Posters
Saturday 8th April: Bus "Tour de Scotland" to Aberdeen, via a whisky distillery.
Attendence is welcome to: members of SICSA institutions, and invited members of the information retrieval community.
Attending the workshop on 7th is free (thanks to our sponsors!). There is also no cost associated to the bus trip to Aberdeen, except for tours of the attractions.
To register, head over to our Eventbrite instance.
Registration closes soon!
Chairs: Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde), Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow), Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow), Martin Halvey (University of Strathclyde)