RUSSIR 2012 - 6th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2012)

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Deadline: February 19, 2012 | Date: August 06, 2012-August 10, 2012

Venue/Country: Yaroslavl, Russia

Updated: 2012-01-01 10:48:46 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

RuSSIR 2012

Monday August 6 - Friday August 10, 2012

Yaroslavl, Russia

http://romip.ru/russir2012

CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS

The 6th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval (RuSSIR 2012)

will be held on August 6-10, 2012 in Yaroslavl, Russia. The school is

co-organized by the Yaroslavl Demidov State University

(http://www.uniyar.ac.ru) and the Russian Information Retrieval

Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP, http://romip.ru).

The mission of the RuSSIR school series is to teach students about

modern problems and methods in information retrieval and related

disciplines, to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in the

field; and to create environment for informal contacts between

scientists, students and industry professionals.

RuSSIR 2012 will offer up to seven courses and host approximately 150

participants. The target audience of the school is advanced graduate

and PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, academic and industrial

researchers, and developers. The working language of the school is

English.

RuSSIR 2012 will focus on multilingual information access, cross-

language information retrieval, and machine translation. The School

Program Committee invites proposals for courses on a wide range of IR-

related topics. Courses dealing with multilinguality, spanning IR,

NLP, and MT domains, and dealing with interdisciplinary problems are

encouraged.

Each course should consist of five 90-minute-long sessions (normally

in five consecutive days). The course may include both lectures and

practical exercises.

Summer school organizers will cover travel expenses and accommodation

for one lecturer per course; no additional honorarium will be paid to

lecturer(s). The school organizers would highly appreciate if,

whenever possible, lecturers could find alternative funding to cover

the travel and accommodation expenses, and indicate this possibility

in their proposals.

Course proposals must be submitted in PDF format to the submission web

site http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=russir2012, by January

20, 2012. A course proposal should contain the following:

- Title and keywords

- Description of teaching and research experience, and contact

information of the lecturer(s)

- Relevance of the course to the school's scope and objectives

- Brief description of the course (up to 300 words suitable for

inclusion in school materials)

- Full description (1-2 pages - to be used for evaluation)

- Target audience and expected prerequisite knowledge of the audience

- Relevant references to support proposal evaluation

- Preferred schedule and necessary equipment

All proposals will be evaluated by the program committee according to

the school's goals, the clarity of presentation, and the lecturers’

qualifications and experience. All applicants will be notified of the

committee's decision by February 19, 2012. Early informal inquiries

about the school or the proposal evaluation process are encouraged.

About RuSSIR: RuSSIR series started in 2007 and has developed into a

renowned academic event with solid international participation.

Previous schools took place in Ekaterinburg, Taganrog, Petrozavodsk,

Voronezh, and Saint Petersburg. Previous RuSSIR courses were taught by

Eugene Agichtein, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ricardo Baeza- Yates, Ben

Carterette, Fabio Crestani, Katja Filippova, Djoerd Hiemstra,

Evangelos Kanoulas, Mounia Lalmas, Marie-Francine Moens, Salvatore

Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Andreas Rauber, Stefan Ruger, Horacio

Saggion, James Shanahan, Fabrizio Silvestri, Mike Thelwall, Gerhard

Weikum, Emine Yilmaz, and others.

About the venue: The city of Yaroslavl is the administrative center

of Yaroslavl Oblast, located 250 km northeast of Moscow. The

population of the city is about 600,000 people. Founded in the 11th

century by prince Yaroslav the Wise, Yaroslavl is one of the oldest

Russian cities. Yaroslavl belongs to the Golden Ring, a group of

towns northeast of Moscow that have played an important role in

Russian history, which are now called "open air museums" and feature

unique monuments of Russian architecture of the 12th?18th centuries.

In 2010 Yaroslavl celebrated its 1,000th anniversary. The historical

part of Yaroslavl is a World Heritage Site located at the confluence

of the rivers Volga and Kotorosl.

The history of the Yaroslavl Demidov State University can be traced

back to the School of Higher Sciences that was founded in 1803 under

the patronage of Pavel Grigoryevich Demidov. Today the Yaroslavl

Demidov State University is the leading institution of higher

education in the Upper-Volga region, with 8,000 students and 10

departments.