September 16–20, 2013, Kazan will host the VII Russian Summer School on Information Retrieval ( RuSSIR 2013 ).

It is organized by the Kazan Federal University ( KFU ) and the Russian Seminar on the Evaluation of Information Retrieval Techniques ( ROMIP ) with the participation of I Ndeksa, Mail.ru, G o o g l e and ABBYY.

The main theme of the school this year will be the search and processing of audio information. The working language is English.
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The main program consists of 7 courses:

Voice and Music Information Retrieval:

• Spoken Content Retrieval: Challenges, Techniques and Applications - Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
  
• Content- and Context-based Music Similarity and Retrieval - Markus Schedl & Peter Knees (University of Linz)
  
• Query by Singing / Humming & Audio Fingerprinting as Two Righer Ranger Jang (Taiwan University)
  
• Adaptivity in Audio & Music Retrieval - Andreas Nürnberger & Sebastian Stober (OVG University Magdeburg)
  

General Information retrieval:

• Introduction to Information Retrieval Models - Massimo Melucci (University of Padua)
  
• Techniques for Large Scale Information Retrieval - Paolo Boldi (University of Milan)
  
• Manuel Montes-y-Gómez & Hugo Jair Escalante (INAOE, Mexico)
  

Participation in school is free, but the number of places is limited.

How to get?

To take part in the school, you must fill out an application and send a scientific article or poster report describing your work - development or scientific research.

The work must correspond to the subject of the school, and may relate to one of the following areas (but not necessarily specifically to them):

• Music Information Retrieval (MIR);
• IR and theory and models;
• Data structures, algorithms, and indexing;
• Natural language processing;
• User interfaces;
• Semantic Web and knowledge databases;
• Text mining, information and fact extraction;
• Mobile applications for IR and Databases;
• Dynamic media and data streams;
• Social search, recommendations and personalization;
• IR evaluation.

The school will host the RuSSIR YSC 2013 conference, where you can present your work.

The hardcore way: full publication

Full publication (full paper) is issued as a full-fledged scientific article in English , in accordance with the template ( Springer template ). The article should present the original unpublished work.

The maximum number of pages is 10. At least one of the authors must be under 30 years old.

Accepted articles will be published in a special issue of the scientific journal "Scientific Notes of the Kazan University" (included in the list of HAC, if that).

Accepting the article guarantees your entry to school. But even if the article is not accepted, it still seriously increases the chances of your application.

The publication should be sent in PDF format by June 2, June 14, 2013 through the EasyChair system.

The light way: poster article

Are you an ordinary developer and the thought of writing a scientific article strikes you in horror? Your job is not ready yet? Or, on the contrary, the results of the work have already been published elsewhere?

Then all you need to participate is to prepare a short message, or, in the language of the scientific community, a poster paper. The poster article is a 2-page English text describing your current project, or an interesting idea for future work, and also, perhaps, a previously published work.

Make a poster article is not difficult. Let's sort it out in order. As an example, take the best poster paper of the recent ECIR International Conference in Moscow:

1. Use the ready-made Springer template. Any article should contain: title, data of the authors and a brief abstract (abstract). Annotation usually summarizes the general context of your research and summarizes the most important facts or results of your research.
   
   
   
2. As a rule, the first chapter of the article, or Introduction (Introduction), reveals the context of the study in more detail, and also formulates the main problems and tasks solved in the course of the study.
   
   
   
3. Further, you disclose your approach proposed for solving the problem.
   
   
   
4. If available, give the results of the experiments.
   
   
   
5. And in the end make conclusions about the study and give a short list of references.
   
   

Poster article should be sent as a PDF document through the participant form.

Sending the participant form

To fill in the registration form, you will need to prepare several additional materials:

• poster article (see above): if you are the author of the full article, it is enough to send a brief summary of it;
• resume (CV), which is completed in free form in English with the obligatory indication of your level of education, professional experience, list of scientific publications and other achievements;
• (optional) reference letter - this may be a letter from your supervisor or teacher with the obligatory indication of his contact information (email, telephone).

Next, go to the participant form page , fill it out and send.

Please note that the deadline for submitting the form is June 14, June 25, 2013 .

If something is not clear, I will try to answer in the comments.