London Information Retrieval Meetup March 2021(REMOTE)

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83672711355?pwd=WDVWV3Iyc2xiWHAwR0daekIyR21ZQT09

We are pleased to announce the eighth 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 2 technical talks, with Q&A session after each talk.

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 6:15 pm,

Talks ( Starting 6:20 pm)

Welcome & Latest News
Alessandro Benedetti
Founder, Sease

Talk 1
"Explainability for learning to Rank"
Ilaria Petreti, IR/ML Engineer, Sease
Anna Ruggero, R&D Software Engineer, Sease

Talk 2

The Split: Introduction and Discussion about Apache Lucene and Solr as Separate Top-Level Projects. - Committer Guests, Apache Software Foundation

GUESTS

Jan Høydahl, Apache Solr PMC Chair

Michael Sokolov, Apache Lucene PMC Chair

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

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