London Information Retrieval Meetup November 2020(REMOTE)

After the success of the 2019 and 2020 editions, we are happy to announce we are hosting a sixth Information Retrieval Meetup in London, a free evening meetup aimed to Information Retrieval passionates and professionals who are curious to explore and discuss the latest trends in the field.
This time we go fully remote, given the COVID-19 situation and the impossibility of hosting the event live.
The evening will be structured with 2 technical talks followed by a networking/Q&A session.

Who is the Information Retrieval Meetup for?

Researchers, scientists, and other practitioners in the field of Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Data Science.

Software engineers who work or want to work with Search technologies

Team leads and IT executives who want to explore latest trends in Information Retrieval

Open doors from 6:10 pm,

Talks ( Starting 6:15 pm)

Welcome & Latest News
Alessandro Benedetti
Founder, Sease

Talk 1
"Feature Extraction for Large-Scale Text Collections"
Luke Gallagher
PhD candidate, RMIT University

Talk 2
"A Learning to Rank Project on a Daily Song Ranking Problem"
Ilaria Petreti, IR/ML Engineer, Sease
Anna Ruggero, R&D Software Engineer, Sease

For more info, including speaker bios, abstracts and timings please check our blog

Hosted by Sease