London Information Retrieval Meetup December 2020(REMOTE)

After the success of past editions, we are happy to announce we are hosting the seventh London Information Retrieval Meetup, 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 1 technical talk followed by a Q&A session with questions from the audience chosen(add your question as a comment to the event!).
The meetup will end with a networking 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 6:00 pm,

Talks ( Starting 6:05 pm)

Welcome & Latest News
Alessandro Benedetti
Founder, Sease

Talk 1
"Enriching postal addresses with Elastic stack"
David Pilato
Developer and Evangelist at Elastic

Q&A
This is the list of the questions selected from the audience:
Q1
"Natural Language Search, Language modelling (Google Bert and OpenAI GPT-3) and Neural Search are extremely popular buzzwords nowadays, but what does it mean to integrate this technologies with an Open Source information retrieval implementation? For example what should I do if I want to design and implement a Search Engine, with such features with Apache Solr?"
Q2
"Which libraries have you already tried for Learning to Rank tasks? Why did you prefer using one instead of others? Pros and cons if there are."

We'll dedicate 20 minutes each, starting from an overview from Sease team and leaving space to discussion and contribution from the audience.

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

Hosted by Sease