Search Conference Calendar
* This is a list of conferences that focus on search, categorised as follows (click to filter):
Vendor • Academic • Evaluation • Executive • Composite • Practioner
(based on my blog How To Get The Best From a Search Conference).
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* A list of Call for Papers dates for mainly Academic conferences can be found at WikiCFP
NTCIR
December 8, 2026 @ 8:00 am – December 10, 2026 @ 5:00 pm JST
Since 1997, the NTCIR project has promoted research efforts for enhancing Information Access (IA) technologies such as Information Retrieval (IR), Text Summarization, Information Extraction (IE), and Question Answering (QA) techniques. Its general purposes are to:
- Offer research infrastructure that allows researchers to conduct a large-scale evaluation of IA technologies
- Form a research community in which findings based on comparable experimental results are shared and exchanged, and
- Develop evaluation methodologies and performance measures of IA technologies.
Collaborative works in the NTCIR allow us to create large-scale test collections that are indispensable for checking the effectiveness of novel IA techniques. In addition, in the process of the collaboration, it is expected that deep insight into research problems is successfully shared among researchers.
In particular, the NTCIR-19 focuses on three topics on IA technology mainly;
Deep NLP tasks in specialized domains such as e-commerce, agricultural information, human values, finance, medicine, regulatory compliance, etc. (CAMEO, DAGRI, FEHU, FinArg-3, HIDDEN-RAD2, MedNLP-CALL, and RegCom)
Modern IR tasks such as instruction design for agentic search (AgenticInstruction), lifelog content retrieval (Lifelog-7), pre-trained model retrieval (ModelRetrieval), and known-item retrieval under uncertainty (Tip-of-the-Tongue).
Response evaluation tasks such as automatic evaluation of LLMs’ responses (AEOLLM-2), confidence-aware RAG (R2C2), and claim verification in scientific literature (SciClaimEval).
As a well-known figure in the search community, an experienced and popular conference speaker and the organiser and host of many events including 5 years of Haystack, I can help you create and run events to inform, educate and inspire. I’m also available as a keynote or track speaker – watch some of my past talks. To discuss your event, get in touch.