Call for Participation – Registration deadline: 30 September 2011

PROMISE Winter School 2012 on Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization

Zinal, Valais – Switzerland
23 – 27 January 2012

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AIM AND SCOPE

The aim of the Promise Winter School on information retrieval and information visualization is to give participants a grounding in the core topics that constitute the multidisciplinary area of multilingual and multimedia information retrieval. Other topics of the school will include usability of systems, system evaluation, social media and several other related fields.

The school is a week-long event consisting of guest lectures from invited speakers who are recognized experts in the field of information retrieval and information visulization.

The school mainly targets PhD and Master students but all other researchers or participation from industry is welcome. Some scholarships are available and prices are kept reasonable to allow for a wide participation.

Time is also foreseen to get in contact with the experts and the participants are encouraged to prepare a poster on their personal research project for a general poster session during the first day.

LECTURES

• Introduction to Information Retrieval (Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
• Introduction to Information Visualization (Robert Spence, Imperial College London, UK)
• Human Computer Interaction Principles (Francesca Costabile, University of Bari, Italy)
• Human Computer Interaction View of Information Retrieval Evaluation (Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
• User-oriented Information Retrieval (Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Information and Library Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Evaluating User-oriented Information Retrieval (Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland)
• Multilingual Information Retrieval (Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland)
• Multimedia Information Retrieval (Stéphane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
• TREC Style Evaluation (Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA)
• Metrics, Statistics, Tests (Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK)
• Number Visualization (Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy)
• Visual Analytics (Silvia Miksch, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria)
• Web Personalisation (Vincent P. Wade, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
• Log File Analysis (Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
• Crowdsourcing (Gareth Jones, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Ireland)
• Retrieval from Social Media (Alejandro Jaimes, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)

IMPORTANT DATES

• Registration deadline: 30 September 2011
• Notification: Mid October 2011
• Winter School: 23 – 27 January 2012

ORGANIZATION

General Chair

• Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

Program Commitee

• Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy
• Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
• Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
• Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

Publicity Chair

• Centre for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies (CELCT), Italy
• Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), France

Local Organization

• Alexandre Cotting, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
• Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland

CONTACT

For any information please contact:

winter-school[at]promise-noe.eu

or visit the Winter School Website.