ESSIR 2005

ESSIR 2007 to be held in Glasgow University, Scotland

Survey result from questionnaire administered to participants during the event.

Some PHOTOS from the event and day-out.

Yahoo! Group for ESSIR 2005 - keep in touch, share your photos, invite friends for talks...

INTRODUCTION

The 5th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2005) was held in Dublin, Ireland, hosted by Centre for Digital Video Processing, part of the Adaptive Information Cluster at Dublin City University.

This five-day school (Monday to Friday) will give participants a grounding in the core subjects of IR - architectures, algorithms, formal theoretical models of IR, and evaluation - as well as covering some of the current "hot" topics such as retrieving from multimedia document collections, and retrieving over wide area networks such as the Internet and the Web.

The target audience of the Summer School are advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic and industrial researchers and developers. The Summer School will last one week (Monday to Friday) and the programme will include lectures from leading researchers in their fields, demonstrations and panels.

Download a 1-page flyer (PDF: 1.8M)

Download a 3-page information sheet (PDF: 300K) on entrance to the campus, accommodation reception hours, access to our new sports centre facilities and other services, with a campus map.

UK-based students are encouraged to apply for partial support from the Multimedia Knowledge Management Network (MMKM). Follow the link to the MMKM website and go to their FUNDING page for information on how to submit a funding application online for this.

A number of student bursaries sponsored by CEPIS-EIRSG are available to European students - See the application detail for this.

 Also sponsored by Adaptive Information Cluster

HISTORY OF ESSIR

ESSIR 2005 will be the 5th European School in Information Retrieval. The first one, ESSIR'90 was organised by the University of Padova (Prof. Maristella Agosti) and was held in Bressanone, Italy, in 1990. The 2nd ESSIR (ESSIR'95) was organised by the University of Glasgow (Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen) and held in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1995, in conjunction with the BCS Colloquium in Information Retrieval, an IRIDES project meeting, and the final MIRO workshop. The 3rd ESSIR (ESSIR 2000) was organised by Dr. Gabriela Pasi, Prof. Maristella Agosti and Prof. Fabio Crestani, and took place in Varenna, Italy, in 2000. The 4th ESSIR (ESSIR 2003) was held in Aussois, France and organised by Prof. Yves Chiaramella and Prof. Catherine Berrut. The 5th ESSIR (ESSIR 2005) was held in Dublin, Ireland, organised by Prof. Alan F. Smeaton, Dublin City University.

The 6th ESSIR (ESSIR 2007) will be held in Glasgow University, Scotland.

COMMITTEES

The scientific committee for the ESSIR 2005 Summer School is:

• Prof. Maristella Agosti (University of Padua)
• Prof. Catherine Berrut (Universite Joseph Fourier)
• Prof. Fabio Crestani (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)
• Dr. Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
• Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow)
• Prof. Steve Robertson (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)
• Prof. Alan F. Smeaton (Dublin City University)

Finance:

• Dr. Noel Murphy (Dublin City University)

Publicity:

• Dr. Hyowon Lee (Dublin City University)

Local organisation:

• Dr. Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University)
• Dr. Noel E. O'Connor (Dublin City University)
• Dr. Noel Murphy (Dublin City University)
• Dr. Hyowon Lee (Dublin City University)
• Dr. Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
• Prof. Alan F. Smeaton (Dublin City University)

ESSIR Steering Committee Document (1-Page PDF: 24K)