ESSIR - Introduction

These are the web pages for and about the ESSIR (European Summer School in Information Retrieval). This event took place in September 1995, it was a great success with over 100 students attending. These web pages are left here as some form of record so you can see what you missed.

ESSIR '95 is the second European summer school in information retrieval. This five day course will give participants a grounding in the core subjects of information retrieval (IR) - architectures, algorithms, formal theoretical models of IR, & evaluation - as well as covering some of the current 'hot' topics such as the integration of IR systems with databases, retrieving from multimedia document collections, and retrieving over wide area networks such as the Internet.

The course is intended for researchers starting out in IR and for industrialists who wish to know more about this increasingly important topic.

Those lecturing the courses are leading European IR researchers. The course subjects are very much a reflection of the research work for which they are well known.

The IR group of the Department of Computing Science is hosting this year's summer school as part of its IRFest: three weeks of IR events culminating in the open Miro workshop on Multimedia IR. The summer school has been deliberately placed at the beginning of the IRFest so that participants can choose to stay on and meet with the other visitors. The IRFest is itself only one component of a multidisciplinary Research Festival being held at the Department over the summer.

To assist 'young European researchers' attend the summer school, the British Computer Society has made a number of bursaries available.

For those with time and inclination, ESSIR coincides with the final week of Edinburgh's famous international arts festival, or for the more adventurous, the hills, lochs, and islands of Scotland are also within easy reach.

In here you should find all the relevant information about the...

subjects of the school
who's lecturing
what it will cost
where it will happen
a bursary scheme
accommodation details
travel details
and a rather neat (even if I do say so myself) online application form which will tell you how much to pay.

If you have any enquries about the summer school that aren't covered in these pages, then please contact...

Jane Reid (ESSIR local co-ordinator)
Department of Computing Science
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ

Tel: +44 (0)141 330 5006
Fax: +44 (0)141 330 4913
Email: essir@dcs.gla.ac.uk

Booklet

A paper booklet containing the information on these pages can be ordered from the ESSIR local co-ordinator using the address above.

Mark Sanderson