- From: Stella Dextre Clarke <stella@lukehouse.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:48:54 +0100
- To: SKOS <public-esw-thes@w3.org>
- Cc: Elizabeth Marley <MARLEYE@parliament.uk>
- Message-ID: <561CD386.5020807@lukehouse.org>
Dear SKOS community Colleagues, Here's a great opportunity if you're in range of London - and the event is free of charge to all - an outstanding presentation by Dr Susan T Dumais of Microsoft Research, on Friday November 6th at the Geological Society in London, titled: *Understanding and Improving Search using Large-Scale Behavioural Data* This will be the first time we hold a Lecture in connection with the prestigious Tony Kent Strix Award for information retrieval, and we hope to repeat the event annually, with the previous year's Winner giving the lecture. Dr Dumais's talk will be followed by a discussion and some time for refreshments and networking. Dr Dumais is Distinguished Scientist and Deputy Managing Director as well as Manager of the Context, Learning, and User Experience for Search (CLUES) Group at Microsoft Research in the United States. For over 30 years, she has been a well-respected leading light in information retrieval - both in terms of research and practice - with sustained contributions that are both innovative and practical. Perhaps her most significant contribution is the co-invention of Latent Semantic Analysis and Indexing (LSI); a key feature of which is its ability to extract a latent conceptual structure from a large collection of texts by analysing the associations between terms that occur in similar contexts, thus enabling a search engine to retrieve using concepts rather than isolated keywords. This year there will also be a talk and a demonstration of one of Tony Kent’s information retrieval packages by Jan Wyllie: *Remembering Futures Past, Tony Kent and the Lost Vision of a Boolean Universe * Bookings should be made at: http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/events/tony-kent-strix-annual-lecture. The Tony Kent Strix Award is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, who died in 1997. Tony Kent made a major contribution to the development of information science and information services both in the UK and internationally, particularly in the field of chemistry and, as honoured in this Award, an outstanding contribution to the design of retrieval software. The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval in its widest sense. Each year a call for nominations is published in the early summer and the presentation of the award is made at Internet Librarian International/Enterprise Search Europe. The Tony Kent Strix Award is managed by UKeiG (a Special Interest Group of CILIP the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) in partnership with the Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC CICAG); the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK Chapter (ISKO UK) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG). The Annual Lecture series is sponsored by Google. I do hope you can attend. Stella Dextre Clarke ***************************************************** Stella Dextre Clarke Vice-Chair, ISKO UK and Vice-President, ISKO Luke House, West Hendred, Wantage, OX12 8RR, UK Tel: 01235-833-298 Fax: 01235-863-298 stella@lukehouse.org *****************************************************
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