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Average rating by each lecture, on a scale of 1(low) to 5(high):
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Overall Relevance |
Slides |
Usefulness
to you |
Amount of content |
Coverage
of topic |
| Introduction |
4.5 |
4.2 |
3.8 |
3.9 |
4.3 |
| Web IR |
4.1 |
3.4 |
3.7 |
3.3 |
3.4 |
| IR Systems |
4.5 |
4.4 |
4.1 |
4.2 |
4.3 |
| Formal Model |
4.1 |
4.1 |
4.1 |
3.8 |
3.9 |
| Evaluation |
4.5 |
4.2 |
4.3 |
4.1 |
4.3 |
| Users and IR |
4.0 |
4.1 |
3.2 |
4.0 |
4.2 |
| Multimedia Technique |
4.1 |
4.3 |
3.4 |
4.1 |
4.1 |
| NLP for IR |
3.3 |
3.7 |
3.3 |
3.0 |
3.3 |
| Cross Lingual IR |
3.7 |
3.5 |
2.9 |
3.7 |
3.9 |
| Multimedia IR |
4.2 |
3.9 |
3.4 |
4.0 |
4.2 |
| Machine Learning |
4.1 |
3.9 |
3.7 |
4.3 |
4.2 |
| Structure/XML |
4.2 |
4.0 |
3.6 |
3.9 |
4.0 |
| Personalisation |
4.3 |
4.5 |
3.6 |
4.0 |
4.1 |
Open questions asked the 3 best things and 3 things to be changed about the event. Following shows
the summary of comments and how many people commented them (in brackets).
Good things about the event
- Nice social event - trip and Irish night (17 people said this)
- Good opportunity for networking - I met many new people in the field (13)
- Lecturers, slides, presentations were very high quality (13)
- Good overview - wide and useful range of topics covered (9)
- Good location and quality of life in DCU (nice campus, sports centre and Ireland in general) (7)
- Well organised event (including order of lectures) (6)
- Lecture hall facility was great (3)
- Lecturer approachability (3)
- Helpful organisers (2)
- Accommodation (2)
- Strong sense of community & social atmosphere (1)
- "The girls" (1)
- "Weather" (1)
- "Lots of references" (1)
- "Cathal Gurrin (very helpful)" (1)
- "Ruthven" (1)
- "Van Rijsbergen" (1)
- "People" (1)
- "Music" (1)
- "I've improved my English!" (1)
Things you would change about the event
- Need a reserved dining room; organised coffee breaks; have a single place for coffee break and lunch time to facilitate communication (6)
- Lack of in-depth tutorial or working demonstration sessions, practical exercises, more interactive talks, discussions, experimentations (6)
- I want to have a list of participants and their contact points (5)
- More punctual time keeping for lecture starting and ending (5)
- More in-depth discussion of each subject; each class should be longer to become more in-depth (5)
- More social events (more trips, trip to Dublin city centre) (4)
- Lack/quality of food and drink (3)
- More lectures; other topics (P2P, Distributed IR, Grid IR, etc.) (3)
- Having to move my accommodation room for staying extra nights (2)
- No provision of electronic proceedings (2)
- Lecture hall was too cold (2)
- Earlier posting on the website of detailed information on the summer school (2)
- Too high tuition fee (2)
- A session where students introduce themselves, present their work (2)
Other suggestions
- Information about buses on the website, from airport to the event (1)
- Topic overlapping among some lectures (1)
- More examples (1)
- ESSIR should be organised yearly (1)
- Possibly several smaller, specialised classes run in parallel (1)
- Provision of mailing list, space for pictures, etc. (1)
- More chance to 'play with' lecturers/tools, maybe in the evenings (1)
- City centre location is not very good for summer school (1)
- Trip should be on the first day to allow early start of interaction among students (1)
- "I' also would have liked to hear more of the very recent research the lecturers are pursuing" (1)
- "Getting this questionnaire on the first day!" (1)
- "More lecturers from industry" (1)
- "Weather" (1)
- "Accommodation" (1)
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