Information Retrieval ESSIR2009

at the same time as in cambridge

Registration: Apr 30, 2009

School: Aug 31 - Sep 4, 2009

Introduction

The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) 2009 gathers in Padua, Italy 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.

ESSIR 2009 will be the 7th European School in Information Retrieval. For more information on the past editions, check the History of ESSIR.

Location

Padua is a pleasant historical city, home to one of the oldest and most prestigious Universities in Europe. Now 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 age". Venice is only 15 miles away, connected by frequent buses and trains. Bologna or Verona, Florence or Milan, Rome or Turin, are conveniently reached by train in one, two, four hours, respectively.

Speakers

M. Agosti, R. Baeza-Yates, N. Fuhr, A. Gionis, P. Ingwersen, M. Lalmas, M. Melucci, J.Y. Nie, S. Robertson, S. Rüger, I. Ruthven, M. Sanderson, J. Shanahan, C.J. van Rijsbergen, H. Zaragoza.

Topics

Foundations of Information Retrieval, Indexing Techniques, Formal Models, Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems, Users and Context, Multimedia and Multilingual Retrieval, Digital Libraries, Semi-structured Data, Machine Learning, Distributed Search, Advertising and Mining on the World Wide Web.

Chairs