ESSIR 2007: 6th European Summer School in Information Retrieval
Skip Navigation27—31 August 2007, Glasgow, Scotland
Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Summer School Daily Programme
Sunday, 26 August 2007
| Monday 27 August 2007 |
| 08:00 — | Registration opens |
| 08:45 — 09:00 | Opening of ESSIR 2007 - Iadh Ounis |
| 09:00 — 10:30 | Introduction to Information Retrieval - Keith van Rijsbergen |
| 10:30 — 11:00 | Tea/coffee break |
| 11:00 — 12:30 | IR Systems/Architecture & Large-scale IR - Mark Sanderson |
| 12:30 — 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 — 16:00 | Introduction to IR Models - Norbert Fuhr |
| 16:00 — 16:30 | Tea/coffee break |
| 16:30 — 18:00 | Advanced Statistical Models for IR - Gianni Amati |
| 19:00 — 21:00 | Reception: will be held at the Hunterian Museum - Main/Gilbert-Scott Building (A7 on maps of the campus)— Sponsored by Google |
| Tuesday 28 August 2007 |
| 09:00 — 11:00 | Evaluation in IR & TREC - Stephen Robertson |
| 11:00 — 11:30 | Tea/coffee break |
| 11:30 — 13:00 | Structure/XML Retrieval - Mounia Lalmas |
| 13:00 — 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 — 15:00 | Providing Effective Web Search: A "Google-y" Perspective - Trystan Upstill |
| 15:00 — 15:30 | Tea/coffee break |
| 15:30 — 19:00 | Symposium on Future Directions on Information Access (FDIA) – Part 1 |
| 17:30 — 19:00 | Poster Session with refreshments |
| 19:30 — | Social Event: Drinks, Food and Music at The Primary |
| Wednesday 29 August 2007 |
| 09:00 — 11:00 | Users and Information Retrieval - Peter Ingwersen and Kalervo Järvelin |
| 11:00 — 11:30 | Tea/coffee break |
| 11:30 — 13:00 | Information Retrieval and Context - Ian Ruthven |
| 13:00 — 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 — 17:30 | Symposium on Future Directions on Information Access (FDIA) – Part 2 |
| 15:10 — 15:40 | IR and Business Talk - Theo Huibers |
| 15:40 — 16:00 | Tea/coffee break |
| 16:00 — 17:30 | Panel Session: What makes a good IR PhD? - Discussion with Panelists: Maristella Agosti, Fidel Cacheda, Yves Chiaramella, Theo Huibers, Vassilis Plachouras, Alan Smeaton, Keith van Rijsbergen and Trystan Upstill |
| 19:00 — | Football Game: lecturers (and organisers) vs participants; Refreshments will be provided at the event. Drinks and light snacks in The Loft afterwards. |
| Thursday 30 August 2007 |
| 09:00 — 10:30 | Question Answering, Information Extraction, and NLP - Maarten de Rijke |
| 10:30 — 11:00 | Coffee/tea break |
| 11:00 — 13:00 | Multimedia Retrieval - Alan Smeaton |
| 13:00 — 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 — 16:00 | Machine Learning, Categorisation and Classification - David Lewis |
| 16:00 — 16:30 | Coffee/tea break |
| 16:30 — 18:00 | Web Usage and Data Mining - Bettina Berendt |
| 19:30 — 23:30 | Social Dinner: will be held at the Trades Hall |
| Friday 31 August 2007 |
| 09:00 — 11:00 | Distributed and Peer-to-Peer IR (including Open-Source IR) - Wray Buntine |
| 11:00 — 11:30 | Coffee/tea break |
| 11:30 — 13:30 | Intranet and Enterprise Search - Nick Craswell and Arjen de Vries |
| 13:30 — 15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00 — 17:00 | Web Information Retrieval - David Hawking |
| 17:00 — 17:15 | Closing |
| End of ESSIR 2007 |
