INNOVATIONS IN SEARCH AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL - BCS SEARCH SOLUTIONS - LONDON, UK

Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval. It is a unique opportunity to bring together academic research and practitioner experience.

The Search Solutions event consists of a Tutorial day and a Conference day, each of which has a separate registration.

LOCATION

Both the Tutorials and the Conference take place at the BCS London Headquarters in London, UK, Ground Floor, 25 Copthall Avenue EC2R 7BP. This is a 10 minute walk from Liverpool Street Station (Elizabeth Line and London Underground) and a 20 minute walk from London Bridge Station.

Registration forms on Eventbrite

Tutorials: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/search-solutions-2023-tutorials-tickets-73926...

Conference: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/search-solutions-2023-conference-tickets-7392...

TUTORIALS

Tutorial 1 November 21, 10am-2pm (half day)

How Large Language Models Can Improve Your Search Project (Half-day)

Alessandro Benedetti, Sease Ltd. Apache Lucene/Solr committer and PMC member and Director and R&D Software Engineer

Tutorial 2 November 21, 10am-4.30pm (full day)

Uncertainty Quantification for Text Classification (Full Day)

Dell Zhang, Thomson Reuters Labs, London, UK. Murat Sensoy, Amazon Alexa AI, London, UK. Lin Gui, King’s College London, London UK Yulan He, King’s College London & Alan Turing Institute, London, UK.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME OUTLINE November 22, 2023 9.45am - 7pm

The objective of the conference this year is to explore the implications and opportunities of AI-based technologies in enhancing the user experience in enterprise, e-commerce and systematic search. The conference marks the first anniversary of the launch of ChatGPT on 30 November 2022.

09.45 Introductions

09.55 Understanding the Dangers of using LLMs. Professor Julie Weeds, University of Sussex

10.30 Using AI tools for discovery Hong Zhou Wiley Scientific

11.00 Break

11.20 IR, AI and ‘search’ – Creating synergy Steve Zimmerman, Samy Ateia and Martin White consider the opportunities and the issues, with the assistance of the audience!

12.20 BCS Search Industry Awards – Introduction Tony Russell-Rose

12.30 Panel Session looking back at the morning presentations

13.00 Lunch

13.45 Pragmatic AI-powered Search – Keeping it Simple, not Stupid. Charlie Hull Open Source Connections

14.15 Retrieval-augmented text generation (RAG) for legal IR Grace Lee

14.45 Ontologies in the age of AI-based discovery Peter Winstanley

15.15 Break

15.50 Presentation of the BCS Search Industry Awards

16.00 New technologies for systematic reviews: are large language models really a gamechanger? James Thomas

16.30 Integrating ChatGPT into existing applications Paul Cleverley

17.00 Panel session – agreeing the take-aways from the conference

17.30 SS2023 Best Paper Award

17.45 Reception

19.00 Close

For further details and enquiries, please contact irsg@bcs.org.uk.