** Final Call for Participation **
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
** Apologies for cross postings **
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
Workshop Program
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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! Dr. A. MacFarlane, Senior Lecturer, Room A525, !
! Centre for Interactive Systems Research !
! Dept. Of Information Science, City University London !
! Northampton Square, LONDON EC1V 0HB !
! Tel:+44 (0)20 7040 8386 Fax:+44 (0)20 7040 8584 !
! URL: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~andym/ !
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