The 13th European Summer School in Information Retrieval
ESSIR 2022

18-22 July 2022

Place and registration

The summer schooll was held at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

 

The early registration deadline was June the 15th, 2022.

Audience

Students, master students, PhD Researchers, Industry and Academia practitioners.

FDIA PhD Symposium

The 10th PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) was held in conjunction with the ESSIR 2022.

Requirements

No deep previous knowledge on IR or ML is required, but the attendants are assumed to have some basic background on computer science and mathematics.

About the School

The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is held on a regular basis, providing high quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The mission of the school is to enable students to learn about modern research challenges and methods in information retrieval and related disciplines; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to grow a community of researchers, students, and industry professionals working on information retrieval with collaborations all around the world.

 

ESSIR 2022 was a 5-day event (18-22 July, 2022) that offered a high quality teaching on IR and related research topics, in a friendly atmosphere. A new edition of the Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) was also held at ESSIR 2022, providing a forum for early researchers to present their research in a friendly environment, whilst among senior researchers.

 

Lectures were also broadcast on YouTube, and the recorded videos were made available in association to each lecture.

Important Dates

Early Registration Deadline: June 15th

Late Registration Deadline: July 15th

Summer School: July 18-22

Summer School Schedule

[Updated: July 20th]

Presentation and Welcome

João Magalhães, Bruno Martins and Pablo Castells

[ slides ]

08:45h - 09:00h

Introduction to Information Retrieval (Part 1)

Norbert Fuhr

[ slides , video ]

09:00h - 10:30h

Coffee Break and Networking Activity, 10:30h - 11:00h

Introduction to Information Retrieval (Part 2)

Norbert Fuhr

[ slides , video ]

11:00h - 12:30h

Lunch Break, 12:30h - 14:00h

Information Retrieval Evaluation (Part 1)

Nicola Ferro

[ slides , video ]

14:00h - 15:30h

Coffee Break and Networking Activity, 15:30h - 16:00h

Information Retrieval Evaluation (Part 2)

Nicola Ferro

[ slides , video ]

16:00h - 17:30h

User Models and Interactive IR

Maarten de Rijke and Romain Deffayet

[ slides , video ]

09:00h - 10:30h

Coffee Break and Networking Activity, 10:30h - 11:00h

Recommender Systems

Dietmar Jannach

[ slides , video ]

11:00h - 12:30h

Lunch Break, 12:30h - 14:00h

Intersections Between IR, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing (Part 1)

Fabrizio Sebastiani and Alejandro Moreo

[ slides , video ]

14:00h - 15:30h

Coffee Break and Networking Activity, 15:30h - 16:00h

Intersections Between IR, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing (Part 2)

Fabrizio Sebastiani and Alejandro Moreo

[ slides , video ]

16:00h - 17:30h

Machine Learning and Neural Approaches for Information Retrieval (Part 1)

Andrew Yates

[ slides , video ]

09:00h - 10:30h

Coffee Break and Networking Activity, 10:30h - 11:00h

Machine Learning and Neural Approaches for Information Retrieval (Part 2)

Nils Reimers

[ slides , video ]

11:00h - 12:30h

Lunch Break, 12:30h - 14:00h
Banquet Dinner at Casa do Alentejo (location), 20:00h - ∞h

Conversational Search

Jeff Dalton

[ slides , video ]

11:00h - 12:30h

Lunch Break, 12:30h - 14:30h

Bias on Search and Recommender Systems

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

[ slides , video ]

14:30h - 16:00h

Coffee Break and Networking Activity, 16:00h - 16:30h

Fairness and Interpretability

Asia Biega

[ slides , video ]

16:30h - 18:00h

Information Retrieval for Medical Applications

Byron Wallace

[ slides , video ]

09:00h - 10:30h

Coffee Break and Networking Activity, 10:30h - 11:00h

Panel Discussion: From a PhD to a Successful Career Supported on Research

— Moderated by João Magalhães

Asia Biega

Mariana Almeida

Maarten de Rijke

Pável Calado

[ video ]

11:00h - 12:30h

Lunch and Free Afternoon, 12:30h - ∞h

Instructors

Alejandro Moreo

ISTI - Italian National Research Council

Andrew Yates

University of Amsterdam

Asia Biega

Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Byron Wallace

Northeastern University

Dietmar Jannach

University of Klagenfurt

Fabrizio Sebastiani

Italian National Research Council

Jeff Dalton

University of Glasgow

Maarten de Rijke

University of Amsterdam

Nicola Ferro

University of Padua

Nils Reimers

HuggingFace

Norbert Fuhr

University of Duisburg-Essen

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Northeastern University

Romain Deffayet

Naver Labs and University of Amsterdam

Organizers

João Magalhães

NOVA University of Lisbon

Bruno Martins

University of Lisbon

Pablo Castells

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Local committee

 
David Semedo
Diogo Silva
Diogo Tavares
Isabel Coutinho
João Coelho
João Silva
Luís Borges
Rafael Ferreira

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