22.1461, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Russia

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Subject: 22.1461, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Russia

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Date: 28-Mar-2011
From: Tatiana Lando [tatiana.lando at gmail.com]
Subject: Web of Data: RuSSIR/EDBT 2011 Summer School

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:40:52
From: Tatiana Lando [tatiana.lando at gmail.com]
Subject: Web of Data: RuSSIR/EDBT 2011 Summer School

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Web of Data: RuSSIR/EDBT 2011 Summer School 

Date: 15-Aug-2011 - 19-Aug-2011 
Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia 
Contact: Tatiana Lando 
Contact Email: tatiana.lando at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://romip.ru/edbt-russir2011/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The joint RuSSIR/EDBT 2011 Summer School will be held on August 15-19, 
2011 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The school is co-organized by Saint 
Petersburg State University (http://eng.spbu.ru), Russian Information 
Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP, http://romip.ru), and EDBT 
Association (http://www.edbt.org)

The mission of the school is to teach students about modern problems and 
methods in Information Retrieval and Database Technology; to stimulate 
scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to create 
environment for informal contacts between scientists, students and industry 
professionals.

RuSSIR/EDBT 2011 School will offer up to seven courses (in parallel 
sessions) and host approximately 150 participants.

The working language of the school is English. The target audience of the 
school is advanced graduate and PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, 
academic and industrial researchers, and developers.

About RuSSIR: 

schools took place in Ekaterinburg, Taganrog, Petrozavodsk, and 
Voronezh. Previous RuSSIR courses were taught by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, 
Mounia Lalmas, Fabio Crestani, Djoerd Hiemstra, Eugene Agichtein, James 
Shanahan, Marie-Francine Moens, Horacio Saggion, Andreas Rauber, and 
others.

About EDBT Summer schools: 

The EDBT Summer Schools are a well-established and successful 
international series organized every two to three years and has been very 
popular among young researchers in the database area. The EDBT 
summer school brings together leading researchers of the database 
community and provides participants an opportunity to gain deep insight into 
the current research trends in the database area.

About venue: 

Saint Petersburg is Russia's second largest city after Moscow with 4.6 
million inhabitants. Founded by Tsar Peter I of Russia in 1703, it was the 
capital of the Russian Empire for more than two hundred years. Saint 
Petersburg is a major European cultural centre. The Historic Centre of Saint 
Petersburg constitutes a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Saint Petersburg is 
also home to The Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world. 
Over its history the city has been referred to as 'the Venice of the north' or 
'Northern Palmyra' due to the intricate web of rivers and canals. Founded in 
1724, St. Petersburg State University is one of the oldest institutions of 
higher education in Russia. At present, there are more than 32,000 
students at University, more than 300 specialties hosted by 21 faculties. 

Application Deadline: 25 May 2011

The joint RuSSIR/EDBT 2011 Summer School will be held on August 15-19, 
2011 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The school is co-organized by Saint 
Petersburg State University (http://eng.spbu.ru), Russian Information 
Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP,  http://romip.ru), and EDBT 
Association (http://www.edbt.org).

RuSSIR/EDBT 2011 School will offer following courses: 
- Gerhard Weikum - Knowledge Harvesting from Web Sources
- Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Emine Yilmaz - Advances in 
Information Retrieval Evaluation
- Sihem Amer-Yahia and Julia Stoyanovich - Top-K Processing for Search 
and Information Discovery in Social Applications
- Stefan Rueger - Multimedia queries and indexing
- Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, and Fabrizio Silvestri - Mining query 
logs to improve web wearch engines' operations
- Mike Thelwall - Sentiment Strength Detection in the Social Web
- Vladimir Gorovoy and Yana Volkovich - An Introduction to Social Mining
- Katja Filippova - Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation (short course)
- Chirag Shah - Collaborative IR (short course)

The Russian Conference for Young Scientists in Information Retrieval will be
co-organized with the school. The school is expected to have a versatile 
social program.

The target audience of the school is advanced graduate and PhD students,
post-doctoral researchers, academic and industrial researchers, and 
developers. The school will be open to about 150 qualified, motivated and 
pre-selected candidates.

The school fee is 210 Euro (8400 Rub). The fee covers all courses, 
handout materials, coffee/tea breaks, social events. Organizers will provide 
a limited number of grants covering school fee only or school fee and 
accommodation.

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