[Sigdl-l] Call for Participation - PROMISE Winter School 2012 "Information Retrieval meets Information Visualization"

[Nicola Ferro]

** Apologies for cross postings **

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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 

http://www.promise-noe.eu/events/winter-school-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 prizes 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, Copenaghen, Denmark

- Evaluating User-oriented Information Retrieval
  Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland

- Multilingual Information Retrieval
  Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel, Neuchâtel, 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
- 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
- Guiseppe 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 Web site:

http://www.promise-noe.eu/events/winter-school-2012/