[NORSLIS] Participation in the European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR)

[Peter Ingwersen]

7TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
31 August -- 4 September 2009
University of Padua, Italy
http://essir2009.dei.unipd.it

NEWS

The descriptions of the lectures and of the speakers are on-line.
The information on the registration will be published soon.

PRESENTATION

The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is a
scientific event founded in 1990, which has given rise to a series of
Summer Schools held on a regular basis to provide high quality teaching
of information retrieval and advanced information retrieval topics to a
mostly European audience of researchers and research students. ESSIR is
typically a week-long event consisting of guest lectures and seminars
from invited lecturers who are recognized experts in the field.

The scope of ESSIR is to give to its participants a grounding in the
core subjects of Information Retrieval (IR), which is the science
concerned with the effective and efficient retrieval of documents by
their semantic content. IR is concerned with all those activities that
make possible the choice, from a given collection of documents, of only
those documents that are of interest in relation to a specific
information need. IR activities are those that enable reaching the
target of choosing the documents of the collection which are probably
relevant to the initial information need in an automatic way, because IR
deals with collections of documents that are available in digital forms
and an automatic IR system/service is used in choosing documents.

The IR core methods and techniques are those for designing and
developing IR systems, Web search engines and tools for information
storing and querying in Digital Libraries. IR core subjects are:  
system architectures, algorithms, formal theoretical models, and
evaluation of the diverse systems and services that implement
functionalities of storing and retrieving documents from multimedia
document collections, and over wide area networks such as the Internet.

ESSIR is intended for researchers starting out in IR, for industrialists
who wish to know more about this increasingly important topic and for
people working on topics related to management of information on the
Internet.  The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR)
2009 held in Padua, Italy, consists of lectures and satellite meetings
for exchange and dissemination in the modeling, design and
implementation of advanced systems for the representation, storage,
search and retrieval of information.

LOCATION

Padua is a pleasant historical city, home to one of the oldest and most
prestigious Universities in Europe. Little more than 400 years ago,
Galileo came here as a Professor of Mathematics to spend, in his own
words, "the 18 best years of my entire life". Venice is only 15 miles
away, connected by frequent buses and trains. Bologna or Verona,
Florence or Milan, Rome or Turin, are all conveniently reached by train
in one, two or four hours, respectively.

CHAIRS

- Massimo Melucci
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates

SPEAKERS AND LECTURES

Prof. Maristella Agosti
University of Padua, Italy
Digital Libraries

Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Distributed Web Search

Prof. Norbert Fuhr
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Information Retrieval Models

Dr. Aristides Gionis
Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Web Mining and Next-Generation Search

Prof. Peter Ingwersen
Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark The User in
Interactive IR Evaluation

Prof. Mounia Lalmas
University of Glasgow, UK
Structure/XML Retrieval

Prof. Massimo Melucci
University of Padua, Italy
Overview of the School

Prof. Jian-Yun Nie
University of Montreal, Canada
Multilingual Information Retrieval

Prof. Stephen Robertson
Microsoft Research, UK
Experimentation and Evaluation in Information Retrieval

Prof. Stefan Rueger
The Open University, UK
Multimedia Information Retrieval

Dr. Ian Ruthven
Strathclyde University, UK
Information Retrieval in Context

Dr. Mark Sanderson
University of Sheffield, UK
Indexing Techniques

Dr. James G. Shanahan
Church and Duncan Group Inc., USA
Web Advertising: Business Models, Technologies and Issues

Prof. C.J. 'Keith' van Rijsbergen
University of Glasgow, UK
A Brief Introduction to Information Retrieval

Dr. Hugo Zaragoza
Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Machine Learning and Information Retrieval

SATELLITE MEETINGS
- Panel on Evaluation in Information Retrieval
- FDIA Symposium 2009

ESSIR 2009 ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Emanuele Di Buccio - University of Padua Marco Dussin - University of
Padua Ivano Masiero - University of Padua Massimo Melucci - University
of Padua (Chair) Riccardo Miotto - University of Padua Gianmaria
Silvello - University of Padua

FOR INFORMATION

http://essir2009.dei.unipd.it
essir2009-information (at) dei dot unipd dot it

TOURISM

The region of Italy where Padua is located is known as Veneto. This is
one of the 20 regions of Italy and it has a population of about 4.8
million people. The capital is Venice.  Once the cradle of the renowned
Venetian Republic, then a land of mass emigration, Veneto is today among
the wealthiest and most industrialized regions of Italy.  
It is also the most visited region of the country, with about 60 million
tourists every year (2007).