Agenda for Information Retrieval

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26th June 2008 15:00 - 19:00

Venue

University College London
Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre,
Engineering Faculty,
Roberts Building G06
[Location]

Programme

Three eminent speakers Stephen Robertson, Brian Vickery and Ian Rowlands will address issues that have dominated the information retrieval agenda since the 1950s, and still present challenges and opportunities for the future. Questions from the audience will be encouraged and ample discussion time will be provided.

Speakers & Abstracts

Stephen Robertson The state of information retrieval: a researcher's view Talk

In his talk, Stephen gave a non-technical overview of some current concerns of core IR research, in particular on the use of different kinds of evidence in searching and ranking. He is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge; he won the Tony Kent Strix Award in 1998 and the Gerard Salton Award in 2000.
Ian Rowlands Google generation: issues in information literacy Talk

Ian focused on the issues from the perspective of the user and presented some findings related to the users' information behaviour that disperse the myth of so called 'Google generation'.
Brian Vickery Issues in information retrieval Talk

Brian Vickery took a look back at the development of information retrieval, and some of the problems it has faced.

Category:

7 Knowledge representation by language and terminology

Information retrieval

Report

The Agenda for Information Retrieval event was organized in conjuction with the School of Library Archives and Information Studies at UCL (now the Department of Information Studies) and was attended by 91 participants.

Three eminent speakers: Brian Vickery, Stephen Robertson and Ian Rowlands, addressed issues that have been on the information retrieval agenda from the 1950s to the era of Google. The talks were followed by a lively and stimulating discussion chaired by Stella Dextre-Clarke.

We are grateful to Conrad Taylor, co-ordinator of the BCS KIDMM (Knowledge, Information, Data and Metadata Management) community, for recording and photographing the event.

SKU: ISKOUK20080626

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