Meetings

7TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
31 August -- 4 September 2009
University of Padua, Italy
http://essir2009.dei.unipd.it

The registration form and the information on the accomodation are online.

PRESENTATION
The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is a scientific event founded in 1990, which has given rise to a series of Summer Schools held on a regular basis to provide high quality teaching of information retrieval and advanced information retrieval topics to a mostly European audience of researchers and research students. ESSIR is typically a week-long event consisting of guest lectures and seminars from invited lecturers who are recognized experts in the field.

The scope of ESSIR is to give to its participants a grounding in the core subjects of Information Retrieval (IR), which is the science concerned with the effective and efficient retrieval of documents by their semantic content. IR is concerned with all those activities that make possible the choice, from a given collection of documents, of only those documents that are of interest in relation to a specific information need. IR activities are those that enable reaching the target of choosing the documents of the collection which are probably relevant to the initial information need in an automatic way, because IR deals with collections of documents that are available in digital forms and an automatic IR system/service is used in choosing documents.

ESSIR 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. �The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) 2009 held in Padua, Italy, consists of lectures and satellite meetings for exchange and dissemination in the modeling, design and implementation of advanced systems for the representation, storage, search and retrieval of information.

LOCATION
Padua is a pleasant historical city, home to one of the oldest and most prestigious Universities in Europe. Little more than 400 years ago, Galileo came here as a Professor of Mathematics to spend, in his own words, "the 18 best years of my entire life". Venice is only 15 miles away, connected by frequent buses and trains. Bologna or Verona, Florence or Milan, Rome or Turin, are all conveniently reached by train in one, two or four hours, respectively.

For additional information, see

http://essir2009.dei.unipd.it