August 27–31, Kazan will host the 12th International Summer School on Information Retrieval
RuSSIR 2018 .
This year it will be organized by the Kazan Federal University (
KFU ) and the Russian Seminar on Evaluation of Information Retrieval Techniques (ROMIP) with the support of ACM SIGIR and BCS IRSG.
The program includes two plenary reports and seven courses, as well as a poster session of the young scientists conference "RuSSIR Young Scientist Conference".
Plenary reports:- Carlos Castillo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), "Crisis Informatics" - on how to use data from social networks to deal with emergency situations;
- Carlos Castillo, "The Biases of Social Data" - about the pitfalls in analyzing user-generated content.
Courses:- Cathal Gurrin (Dublin City University), "The Information Retrieval Challenge of Lifelogs and Personal Life Archives" - on the analysis of personal data;
- Henning Müller (University of Geneva), "Evaluation of IR systems and multi-modal retrieval in the medical domain" - on the search for medical images;
- Valentin Malykh, Mikhail Burtsev (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology), "Conversational AI through Deep Learning" - on how to create an intelligent chat bot using deep learning;
- Rishabh Mehrotra (Spotify Research), "Learning from User Interactions" - on how to guess the user's need from his interaction with the online system;
- Guido Zuccon (Queensland University of Technology), “Health Search” on medical data search;
- Harrie Oosterhuis (University of Amsterdam), “Learning to Rank and Evaluation in the Online Setting” - on how to train a system based on user interaction data;
- Prasenjit Mitra (Pennsylvania State University), “Retrieving Information Interactively Using Natural Language” - on how to teach a system to communicate in natural language.
School attendance is free. Registration is open until
July 10th .
How to participate?
To participate, you must fill out an application and send a poster article.
Poster article
A poster article is a two-page text in English describing your work: development or research. The work may contain already published material or a study in progress (work-in-progress). A poster “based on” term, degree, bachelor or master's work is a perfectly suitable option. On how to prepare an poster article, we wrote
in detail
in the last post .
Participants will present papers at the poster session of the RuSSIR Young Scientist Conference.
Request
To apply, fill out the
form . To fill in the form you need to prepare:
- poster article (see above);
- resume (CV) in free form;
- letter of recommendation, for example from your supervisor or teacher (optional);
- motivation letter - one paragraph describing your expectations from participation in the school.
Ready to answer questions in the comments or at
russir2018@gmail.com .