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European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR)
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.
| What | Training Programme Summer School |
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| When |
2009-09-01 00:00
to 2009-10-04 00:00 |
| Where | University of Padova (Padova, Italy) |
| Contact Email | essir2009-information@dei.unipd.it |
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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.
