European Summer School in Information Retrieval
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The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is a scientific event founded in 1990, which starts off a series of Summer Schools to provide high quality teaching of information retrieval on advanced topics. ESSIR is typically a week-long event consisting of guest lectures and seminars from invited lecturers who are recognized experts in the field.
The aim of ESSIR is to give to its participants a common ground in different aspects of Information Retrieval
(IR). Maristella Agosti in 2008 stated that: “The term IR identifies the activities that a person – the user – has to conduct to choose, from a collection of documents, those that can be of interest to him to satisfy a specific and contingent information need.”
IR is a discipline with many facets and at the same time influences and is influenced by many other scientific disciplines. Indeed, IR ranges from Computer Science
to Information Science
and beyond; moreover, a large number of IR methods and techniques are adopted and absorbed by several technologies. The IR core methods and techniques are those for designing and developing IR systems, Web search engines, and tools for information storing and querying in Digital Libraries. IR core subjects are: system architectures, algorithms, formal theoretical models, and evaluation of the diverse systems and services that implement functionalities of storing and retrieving documents from multimedia document collections, and over wide area networks such as the Internet
.
ESSIR aims to give a deep and authoritative insight of the core IR methods and subjects along these three dimensions and also for this reason it is intended for researchers starting out in IR, for industrialists who wish to know more about this increasingly important topic and for people working on topics related to management of information on the Internet
.
Two books have been prepared as readings in IR from editions of ESSIR, the first one is Lectures on Information Retrieval
, the second one is Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval .
, U.S.A., and Maristella Agosti, University of Padua
, Italy, for an Italian audience in 1989.
The aim of ESSIR is to give to its participants a common ground in different aspects of Information Retrieval
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
(IR). Maristella Agosti in 2008 stated that: “The term IR identifies the activities that a person – the user – has to conduct to choose, from a collection of documents, those that can be of interest to him to satisfy a specific and contingent information need.”
IR is a discipline with many facets and at the same time influences and is influenced by many other scientific disciplines. Indeed, IR ranges from Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
to Information Science
Information science
-Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...
and beyond; moreover, a large number of IR methods and techniques are adopted and absorbed by several technologies. The IR core methods and techniques are those for designing and developing IR systems, Web search engines, and tools for information storing and querying in Digital Libraries. IR core subjects are: system architectures, algorithms, formal theoretical models, and evaluation of the diverse systems and services that implement functionalities of storing and retrieving documents from multimedia document collections, and over wide area networks such as the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
.
ESSIR aims to give a deep and authoritative insight of the core IR methods and subjects along these three dimensions and also for this reason it is intended for researchers starting out in IR, for industrialists who wish to know more about this increasingly important topic and for people working on topics related to management of information on the Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
.
Two books have been prepared as readings in IR from editions of ESSIR, the first one is Lectures on Information Retrieval
, the second one is Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval .
ESSIR Editions
ESSIR series started in 1990 coming out from the successful experience of the Summer School in Information Retrieval (SSIR) conceived and designed by Nick Belkin, Rutgers UniversityRutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
, U.S.A., and Maristella Agosti, University of Padua
University of Padua
The University of Padua is a premier Italian university located in the city of Padua, Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 as a school of law and was one of the most prominent universities in early modern Europe. It is among the earliest universities of the world and the second...
, Italy, for an Italian audience in 1989.
| Edition | Web Site | Location | Organiser(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8th | ESSIR 2011 | Koblenz, Germany | Sergej Sizov and Steffen Staab |
| 7th | ESSIR 2009 | Padua, Italy | Massimo Melucci and Ricardo Baeza-Yates |
| 6th | ESSIR 2007 | Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom | Iadh Ounis and Keith van Rijsbergen |
| 5th | ESSIR 2005 | Dublin, Ireland | Alan Smeaton |
| 4th | ESSIR 2003 | Aussois (Savoie), France | Catherine Berrut and Yves Chiaramella |
| 3rd | ESSIR 2000 | Varenna, Italy | Maristella Agosti, Fabio Crestani, and Gabriella Pasi |
| 2nd | ESSIR 1995 | Glasgow, United Kingdom | Keith van Rijsbergen |
| 1st | ESSIR 1990 | Brixen, Italy | Maristella Agosti |