Information Retrieval specialist group
We’re a community of IT professionals and enthusiasts who are passionate about information retrieval.
Call for one day event proposals
The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) of the BCS invites proposals for the organisation of one day events supported by BCS. Proposals will be evaluated based on the organisational and financial plans and benefits to the Information Retrieval community.
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About us
The Information Retrieval specialist group (IRSG) was established in 1978 with the aim of supporting communication between IR researchers and practitioners, promoting the use of IR methods in industry and raising the public awareness of IR-related topics.
Recognising IR as an interdisciplinary field, a further aim of the IRSG is act as a link between computer science, library and information science and also cognate communities (like natural language processing).
Currently the IRSG has over 500 full, voting, members (i.e. professional members of the BCS who are also members of the IRSG) and several hundred affiliate, nonvoting, members.
If you are interested in the development of information retrieval as a research area there are some useful links in the resources section.
