RuSSIR 2014: VIII summer school on information retrieval

On August 18–22, 2014, the VIII Russian Summer School on Information Retrieval “ RuSSIR 2014 ” will be held in Nizhny Novgorod. Prior to that, the school was held in Yekaterinburg, Taganrog, Petrozavodsk, Voronezh, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl and Kazan

This year, it is being organized by the National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Russian seminar on the evaluation of the ROMIP Information Retrieval Methods with the participation of I Ndex, Mail.ru, Geography and ABBYY and Lectorium .

The main theme of the school will be data visualization in information retrieval tasks. The working language is English.
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The school’s program includes six core courses, a plenary course and sponsor reports, as well as the RuSSIR Young Scientist Conference for young scientists.

Basic courses :

• Katja Hofmann (Microsoft Research) - Online Experimentation for Information Retrieval;
• Alfred Inselberg (Tel Aviv University) - Visualization & Data Mining for High Dimensional Data;
• Dmitry I. Ignatov (Higher School of Economics);
• Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute) - Web as a Corpus: Going Beyond the n-gram;
• Sujatha Das G. , Cornelia Caragea , Li Xiaoli, C. Lee Giles - Document Analysis and Retrieval in Scientific Digital Libraries;
• Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) - Author Profiling and Plagiarism Detection.

Students, graduate students, researchers and developers are invited to participate in the school. In total, it is planned to receive up to 120 listeners. Participation is free; for those who need it, the organizers provide grants for accommodation (the number is limited).

I want to participate! What to do?

To take part in RuSSIR 2014, you must fill out an application and send a poster report or a scientific article describing your work - development or scientific research.

Work must correspond to the subject of the school, and may relate to one of the following areas (the list is not complete)

• 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.

Work must be done in English.

Poster article (poster paper) - the easiest way to participate in school. It is a short two-page work for presentation at the poster session. 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. Poster articles are very "loyal" review. For developers who are not engaged in active scientific work, a poster session is a great opportunity to talk about your project, discuss the task with an interested and qualified public, and get to know like-minded people.

How to prepare an poster article, was described in detail in last year's post .

Much more stringent requirements are imposed on a full-fledged scientific article (full paper). But then, the articles selected as a result of the review will be published in this international scientific journal from the series “ Communications in Computer and Information Science ” (it is indexed in the international base Scopus and is on the list of VAK ).

The article should contain the original, nowhere else unpublished research. Its maximum volume is 12 pages. Work must be framed in accordance with the template Springer template . To submit a PDF-document with the text of the article should use the service EasyChair . Selected works will be presented at the RuSSIR Young Scientist Conference at the summer school. For those participants who submit a full article, as a poster during registration, simply download the abstract of the article.

The deadline for sending the registration form is June 30th .

We are ready to answer questions in the comments or at school@romip.ru.