Search Solutions 2015 – Is semantic search finally here?
Last week I attended one of my favourite annual search events, Search Solutions, held at the British Computer Society’s base in Covent Garden. As usual this is a great chance to see what’s new in the...
View ArticleSearch Solutions 2013, a review
Yesterday was the always interesting Search Solutions one day conference held by the BCS IRSG in London, a mix of talks on different aspects of search. The first presentation was by Behshad Behzadi of...
View ArticleSearch Solutions 2012 – a review
Last Thursday I spent the day at the British Computer Society’s Search Solutions event, run by their Information Retrieval Specialist Group. Unlike some events I could mention, this isn’t a forum for...
View ArticleSearch Solutions 2011 review
I spent yesterday at the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s annual Search Solutions conference, which brings together theoreticians and practitioners to discuss the...
View ArticleECIR 2011 Industry day – part 2 of 2
Here’s the second writeup. We started after lunch with a talk from Flavio Junqueira of Yahoo! on web search engine cacheing. He talked both about the various things that can be cached (query results,...
View ArticleSpeaking to DZone and at ECIR
I was recently interviewed by Mitchell Pronschinske for the DZone website on the subjects of open source search: you can download the podcast here. It’s part of a large resource they have on open...
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