After a long organisation process (explained in my last blogpost), the workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR) finally took place during the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) a couple of weeks ago in Italy.
About a week ago I attended the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). The conference was great and I will write a blogpost about it soon. However, the main focus of this article is one specific workshop within that conference: the Recent Trend in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR). The reason why I want to talk about it is because I was the lead organiser and the event ended up being a success much bigger than we could have predicted. This blogpost will explain how the workshop idea was born and how the workshop was organised. We thought it is worth sharing this knowledge hoping that other people can get some insight out of it. A latter blogpost will focus on the content of the workshop itself.
