BCS SEARCH INDUSTRY AWARDS 2023
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We are delighted to announce this year's Search Industry Awards, celebrating the best search innovations of 2023. Presented by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS, these awards recognize people, projects, and organisations around the world that have excelled in the design of search and information retrieval products and services.
If you know of any people, projects, or products that deserve recognition, let us know by submitting a nomination. Alternatively, if you're involved with something special yourself, you can submit an application today.
CATEGORIES This year we are offering five awards:
1. Best search user experience recognises outstanding application of user-centred design principles (to a web site / mobile app / information resource, etc.). Previous winners include: * Boston University/Reza Rawassizadeh, Yi Rong for their work on ODSearch * LexisNexis for their work on Open question answering on Lexis+
2. Most promising start up (or new enterprise) recognises the innovative and disruptive potential of a business model, technology, or solution. Previous winners include: * Giotto AI, an all-in-one platform to automatize, digitalize, and standardize the data collection, analysis and writing of a Clinical Evaluation Report * Resolute.AI, an AI driven platform to search major FDA databases in the public domain in a federated way * Search|hub for their work on developing and commercializing a system that infuses human understanding into existing search applications * ContextFlow, for their work on developing and commercializing the radiology image search technology developed in the EU FP7 Khresmoi project
3. Best open source project rewards the remarkable contributions of individuals and communities in fostering collaboration, transparency, and the democratization of knowledge. Previous winners include: * CiteSeerX, one of the largest open source academic search engines with over 10 million documents
4. Search professional of the year is made to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the discipline through their work and professionalism. Previous winners include: * Adam Tocock, Library Assistant at NHS * Stuart Mackie, Lead Data Scientist at BiP Solutions
5. Best paper / presentation (at Search Solutions). Previous winners include: * Filip Radlinski, Google: “Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation” * Olivia Foulds, University of Strathclyde: “Crossing the 49th Parallel in Data and Information Science” * Mark Harwood, Elastic: “Tackling toxic content with the elastic stack” * Frederic Fol Leymarie, DynAikon Ltd: “Human Visual Perception + Computer Vision to provide greater User Control for Shape-based Search”
The last award is open only to presenters at Search Solutions, and will be judged on the day of the event. For all others, apply today!
JUDGING PANEL
Winners will be selected by our panel of judges (details to be announced shortly).
AWARDS CEREMONY
The awards ceremony will take place during Search Solutions in November 2023. Winners will receive a framed certificate and a public listing on the IRSG Awards site.
APPLY
We’ve designed the application process to be simple to complete: https://forms.gle/AUGsRBV9W2JE8S3x9
If you are unsure which category to apply for, or have questions about the application process, contact us via the address below. For further details, see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informat...
Nominations will remain open until 31st October.
CONTACT
If you have any questions on the above, please contact the IRSG vice chair at tgr2uk+irsg@gmail.com
ABOUT IRSG The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG is free to join via the BCS website, which provides access to further IR articles, events and resources.
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