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

NEWS

A few seats available.
Closing date for registration: 30 June 2009

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

Maria Bernini - University of Padua
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).