Introduction

The ESF Exploratory Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context (IRiX) is part of the IR Festival, which is a week full of IR activities in Glasgow. It is supported by the European Sience Foundation (ESF) and the University of Glasgow.

For more information please visit ESF's announcement of the IRiX workshop or contact Joemon Jose.

Participation

Please note that the IRiX workshop is fully sponsored by the European Sience Foundation (ESF). ESF insists the total number of participants should be less than 30 to provide an interactive and explorative atmosphere. We do not have any more places left.

Organisers

Joemon Jose
University of Glasgow (UK)

Keith van Rijsbergen
University of Glasgow (UK)

Schedule

The workshop will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 26, 27, 2005. Here is a draft schedule for the two days:

Tuesday, 26th July:
9:30 - 10:00	ESF Representative
10:00 - 11:00	Invited talk "Leveraging Context for Information Retrieval: A Matter of Control" by Prof. Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee/Tea break
11:30 - 13:00	3 short presentations: What is context and its relevance to IR - "Theoretical issues in context modelling" by Prof. Kalervo Jarvelin - "Exploring Biometric Context in Information Retrieval" by Dr. Gareth Jones and Prof. Alan Smeaton - "Context through Query Mining" by Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30	Break out sessions: Role of Context in IR - Theoretical implications lead by Prof. Kalervo Jarvelin - Contextual Applications lead by Prof. Alan Smeaton - Dimensions of Context lead by TBD
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee/Tea break
16:00 -17:00	Session responses and discussions
18:30	Dinner
Wednesday, 27th July:
9:00 - 10:00	Key note speech "Thinking Outside the IR Boxes" by Dr. Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee/Tea break
10:30 - 11:30	3 short presentations: - "Towards Context Modeling Using Vector Space Bases" by Prof. Massimo Melucci - "Representing IR through contextual graphs" by Prof. Patrick Brezillon - "Why IR test collections are so bad" by Dr. Mark Sanderson
11:30 - 12:30	Break out sessions: Research Directions - "Contextual Relevance and Evaluation" lead by Prof. Pia Borlund and Dr. Ian Ruthven - "Emerging context based IR Applications and Systems" - "Theoretical Modelling of Context"
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00	Break out session: Responses and Discussions
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee/Tea break
15:30 -16:30	Panel: "Is Context Really So Important?" Chair: Prof. Bruce Croft Panelists: Gary Marchionini, Sue Dumais, Mark Sanderson, and Steve Draper
16:30	Close

 

Venue

The workshop will take place in the Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre. This is very close to the Deaprtment of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. The Western Informary Lecture Theatre is building B9 on maps of the campus. It is most easily accessed via University Place, off Byres Road just south of University Avenue.

More details on how to reach Glasgow is available here.

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