The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) or BCS-IRSG is a Specialist Group of the

British Computer Society Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in infor ...

concerned with supporting communication between researchers and practitioners, promoting the use of

Information Retrieval Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...

(IR) methods in industry and raising public awareness. There is a newsletter called ''The Informer'', the annual

European Conference on Information Retrieval The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the main European research conference for the presentation of new results in the field of information retrieval (IR). It is organized by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the Br ...

(ECIR), an annual event called Search Solutions aimed at researchers and practitioners, and continual organisation and sponsorship of conferences, workshops and seminars. The current chair is Professor Udo Kruschwitz.

European Conference on Information Retrieval

Organising ECIR is one of the major activities of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group. The conference began in 1979 and has grown to become one of the major Information Retrieval conferences alongside SIGIR receiving hundreds of paper and poster submissions every year from around the world. ECIR was initially established by the IRSG under the name "Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research", and held in the UK until 1997. It was renamed ECIR in 2003 to better reflect its status as an international conference. ECIR is currently ranked A in the CORE conference rankings.

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External links

IRSG website
Information retrieval organizations BCS Specialist Groups Organizations established in 1979