Early bird deadline approaching: ESSIR 2007 Summer School in Information Retrieval, Glasgow 27-31 August, UK

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European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2007)
Organised by: University of Glasgow
In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG
27-31 August 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir2007/
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This 6th edition of the summer school will give participants a grounding
in the core subjects of Information Retrieval (IR), such as
Architecture, IR models and Evaluation as well as various important
applications, such as Web search, Interactive IR, XML Retrieval,
Question Answering and Multimedia Retrieval. Moreover, ESSIR 2007 has a
strong focus on large-scale IR and covers some recent and trendy topics
and applications in IR, such as Distributed and Peer-to-Peer IR, Web
Usage and Mining, Intranet/Enterprise search, Blog search and
Information Retrieval in Context. The guest lecturers are recognised
experts in their fields.


Classes and lectures include:
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- Introduction to Information Retrieval (by Keith van Rijsbergen)
- IR Systems/Architecture & Large-scale IR (by Mark Sanderson)
- Web Information Retrieval (by David Hawking)
- Introduction to IR Models (by Norbert Fuhr)
- Advanced Statistical Models for IR (by Gianni Amati)
- Evaluation in IR & TREC (by Stephen Robertson)
- Machine Learning, Categorisation and Classification (by David Lewis)
- Structure/XML Retrieval (by Mounia Lalmas)
- Users, Interaction and Information Seeking/Retrieval (by Peter
Ingwersen and Kalervo Järvelin)
- Information Retrieval and Context (by Ian Ruthven)
- Multimedia Information Retrieval (by Alan Smeaton)
- Question Answering, Information Extraction & NLP (by Maarten de Rijke)
- Web Usage and Data Mining  (by Bettina Berendt)
- Distributed and Peer-to-Peer IR, including Open Source IR (by Wray
Buntine)
- Intranet and Enterprise Search (by Nick Craswell and Arjen de Vries)

The 1-week event (Monday-Friday) will also include participation and
talks from industrial speakers (e.g. Trystan Upstill from Google and
Theo Huibers from Thaesis and Twente University), as well as the
participation of panelists (e.g. Yves Chiaramella and Maristella Agosti).


FDIA Symposium:
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A new symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA), will
be held in conjunction with ESSIR 2007, which will provide a forum for
early researchers to present their research in a friendly environment,
whilst among senior researchers.

Social Events:
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There is a planned social event every night, including:

* A Reception
   A reception sponsored by Google will be held at the Hunterian Art
   Gallery
   (http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/) on Monday 27th August 2007.

* A Football (soccer) Game: Organisers against Participants
   A friendly game of football between lecturers and deleguates
   will be held on Wednesday 29th August 2007.

* A Dinner/Banquet
   The banquet will be held at the Trades Hall of Glasgow
   (http://www.tradeshallglasgow.co.uk/) on Thursday 30th August 2007

Bursaries:
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* A significant number of student bursaries are available from MMKM
(Multimedia Knowledge Management Network) for UK-based students, from
CEPIS-EIRSG (European Information Retrieval Specialist Group) for
Europe-based students, and from Yahoo! Research for all students -
application details are available on the ESSIR 2007 Summer School website.

* A number of bursaries are available to any member of BCS IRSG, whether
a student or not (membership to BCS IRSG is free and open to all) -
application details are available on the ESSIR 2007 Summer School website.

Application Deadline for all bursaries is: 27th May 2007.

Programme, Registration, Deadlines, Venue:
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A full programme, venue, deadlines, and details of registration
instructions are available on the Summer School
website at: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essir2007/

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* In cooperation with BCS-IRSG

* Main Sponsors:
Google: http://www.google.com
Microsoft Research: http://research.microsoft.com
Yahoo! Research: http://research.yahoo.com/
Matrixware: http://www.matrixware.com
CEPIS: http://www.cepis.org
MMKM: http://www.mmkm.org/

* Contact ESSIR 2007 organisers at: essir2007-organisers (AT) dcs.gla.ac.uk
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