The program for the ESSIR 2019 Summer School is the following (click on the link of each lecture to read the abstract of the lecture and the short bio of the speaker):
Monday 15 July 2019
- Morning
- [8:30-9:30] Registration
- [9:30-10:00] Opening
- [10:00-11:30] Information Retrieval as Interaction, Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- [11:30-12:00] Coffee break
- [12:00-13:30] Approaches to Research in IR, W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
- [13:30-14:30] Lunch
- Afternoon
- [14:30-16:00] Foundations of Evaluation 1, Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
- [16:00-16:30] Coffee break
- [16:30-18:00] Foundations of Evaluation 2, Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
- [18:00-20:00] Opening Reception
Tuesday 16 July 2019
- Morning
- [10:00-11:30] Foundations of User-oriented IR 1, Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
- [11:30-12:00] Coffee break
- [12:00-13:30] Foundations of User-oriented IR 2, Diane Kelly, University of Tennessee, USA
- [13:30-14:30] Lunch
- Afternoon
- [14:30-16:00] Foundations of Machine Learning for IR, Claudia Hauff, TU Delft, The Netherlands
- [16:00-16:30] Coffee break
- [16:30-18:00] Foundations of Contextual IR, Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Wednesday 17 July 2019
- Morning
- [10:00-11:30] Efficiency and scalability in IR, Nicola Tonellotto, ISTI, CNR, Italy
- [11:30-12:00] Coffee break
- [12:00-13:30] Mining Social Media, Carlos Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- [13:30-14:30] Lunch
- Afternoon
- [14:30-16:00] FDIA / FDIA Paper Session 1 – Ingo Frommholz, Haiming Liu, and Yashar Moshfeghi (Chairs)
- [16:00-16:30] Coffee break
- [16:30-18:00] FDIA Paper Session 2 – Ingo Frommholz, Haiming Liu, and Yashar Moshfeghi (Chairs)
Thursday 18 July 2019
- Morning
- [10:00-11:30] Medical (text and image) IR, Henning Müller, HES-SO Valais, Switzerland
- [11:30-12:00] Coffee break
- [12:00-13:30] Design and Evaluation of Recommender Systems, Paolo Cremonesi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- [13:30-14:30] Lunch
- Afternoon
- [14:30-16:00] Panel on Teaching and Learning IR in Academia and Industry, Maristella Agosti (Moderator)
- [16:00-16:30] Coffee break
- [16:30-18:00] FDIA Poster Session
- [20:00-23:00] Social event
Friday 19 July 2019
- Morning
- [10:00-11:30] Understanding & Inferring User Tasks and Needs, Emine Yilmaz, University College London, UK
- [11:30-12:00] Coffee break
- [12:00-13:30] Biases on Web Search and Recommender Systems, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT / Northeastern University, USA
- [13:30-14:30] Lunch
- Afternoon
- [14:30-16:30] Students Challenge/Assessment – To recognize 1.5 credits, on Friday afternoon there will be a “contest” to which the students will participate.
- [16:30-17:00] Closing coffee