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Search Solutions 2023 – 22 November 2023

The annual BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) Search Solutions 2023 event will take place in London on 22 November. This is the only conference in the world that sets out to bring together academic and practitioner perspectives on information discovery....

Research on enterprise AI July 2023

The rate of publication of research papers on the enterprise adoption and impact of AI continues unabated. The patterns if research publication are the subject of a very timely paper In this month's collection - a good place to start your journey through a month of...

Research on enterprise AI – June 2023

Every day I scan through around 200-300 additions to the arXiv preprint database looking for research  that has implications for  the assessment, adoption and governance of AI in the enterprise. I skip over technical developments on LLMs and research into the...

Who benchmarks the AI application benchmarks?

The information retrieval community was one of the pioneers in the development of benchmarks and test collections. The Cranfield experiments were the result of the vision and patience of Cyril Cleverdon, and can trace their history back to 1958. The baton was taken up...

Understanding Search Engines – Dirk Lewandowski

It is remarkable that this book is unique in its coverage of the development of the technology, business and impact of web search. The web search engines play such an important role in our lives and our business activities that we take them for granted. It’s not just...