TLIR 2007 - First International Workshop on Teaching and 
                  Learning of Information Retrieval 

                            10th January 2007

                    First Floor The Davidson Building, 
                  5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA

                      ** Registration is Now Open **

                    ** Apologies for cross postings **
	
Motivation

Information Retrieval (IR) is a research area that has generated a great
deal of interest recently, largely due to the growth in Internet use. Many
different problems that have arisen during this time are being solved by
means of the developments and efforts of thousand of researchers around
the world. These new advances are spread following the usual scientific
channels: journals and conferences. Therefore, researchers are kept a
abreast of new developments in the field.

However, is also very important that both undergraduate and postgraduate
students understand the basis of this discipline, not just with the aim of
conducting research in the future, but also as a way of learning how
search engines work, tools that they use for their own benefit on a daily
basis. IR is a very interesting subject to reinforce the knowledge
acquired in other subjects, such as programming, data structures, user
interface design etc.  Postgraduate students who could research in this
area also need to know the fundamental aspects of the subject, simply
because they may be building new solutions for them.

Therefore as important as research is to IR, one way to improve the
profile of the subject is to create a common space where IR lecturers and
researchers can share their experiences and opinions in the field of IR
teaching at any of the educational levels (primary, secondary and
tertiary). The aim of the workshop is to provide this common space.

Location

The workshop will be held in the BCS HQ building, First Floor The Davidson
Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Directions can be found
on the BCS web site: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5843. The
workshop will be held on Wednesday 10th January 2007. 

Registration Details

The registration form can be downloaded from:
http://tlir07.soi.city.ac.uk/. All registrations are handled by BCS in
Swindon, please contact Phil Dyson on +44 (0)1793-417656, or
[log in to unmask] if you have any enquires. Fees for the workshop
are £80 for BCS or IRSG members, and £100 for non members

Please note the following:

We DO NOT issue letters of invitation for employees of commercial
organisations from countries that require a visa to enter the UK. If in
doubt, please contact us before registering.

We require every conference delegate to use an institutional email
address. It is not permitted to register using an email address from any
freely available provider (such as Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL or Gmail). Please
use an alternative to freely available email accounts, as your
registrations will be ignored otherwise.

Accommodation 

If you need to stay overnight, please look at the list of hotels
recommended by the BCS, which are near the workshop venue:
http://tlir07.soi.city.ac.uk/hotels.html.

Workshop Program

The program for the workshop is as follows:

Session 1: E-learning and Learning Environments for teaching IR
- Design experiment on two information retrieval learning environments,
Kai Halttunen.
- IR-BASE: An Integrated Framework for the Research and Teaching of
Information Retrieval Technologies, Pável Calado, Ana Cardoso-Cachopo,
Arlindo L. Olivera. 
- Information Retrieval as eLearning Course in German  Lessons Learned
after 5 Years of Experience, Andreas Henrich and Karlheinz Morgenroth.  
- A Software Tool to Teach the Performance of Fuzzy IR Systems based on
Weighted Queries, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Sergio Alonso, Francisco J.
Cabrerizo, Antonio G. Lopez-Herrera, and Carlos Porcel.  
- A flexible object-oriented system for teaching and learning structured
IR, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete and Alfonso
E. Romero.  

Session 2: Strategies and Mathematics for Teaching IR 
- Pedagogic challenges in Information Retrieval: teaching mathematics to
Postgraduate Information Science students, Andrew MacFarlane. 
- Using Research Questions to Encourage Creativity and Assess
Understanding in Teaching of Information Retrieval, Gareth F. J. Jones. 
- Teaching of Web IR: Web first or IR first? Stefano Mizzaro.

Session 3: Circula and evaluation 

- Information retrieval curricula; contexts and perspectives, David
Bawden, Polona Vilar, Jessica Bates, Jela Steinerov, Pertti Vakkari. 
- Integrating standard test collections in interactive IR instruction,
Eija Airio, Eero Sormunen, Kai Halttunen, Heikki Keskustalo. 

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