Schedule

The tentative schedule for the ESSIR 2019 Summer School is the following:

Monday 15 July 2019

  • Morning
    • [8:30-9:30] Registration
    • [9:30-10:00] Opening
    • [10:00-11:30] Foundations of IR, 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
    • [16:00-17:30] Foundations of Evaluation 2, Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
  • [19:00-21:00] 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
    • [16:00-17:30] Foundations of Personalized 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
    • [12:30-13:30] Social Media Analytics, Carlos Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  • [13:30-14:30] Lunch
  • Afternoon
    • [14:30-17:30] FDIA – 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] Entity Linking for IR in Cultural Heritage, Seamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
  • [13:30-14:30] Lunch
  • Afternoon
    • [14:30-16:00] Panel on: Teaching and Learning IR in Academia and Industry, Maristella Agosti (Chair)
    • [16:00-17:30] Recommender Systems, Paolo Cremonesi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • [20:00-23:00] Social event

Friday 19 July 2019

  • Morning
    • [10:00-11:30] Task-based IR, 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, 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.