22.4774, FYI: RuSSIR 2012: Call for Course Proposals

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Subject: 22.4774, FYI: RuSSIR 2012: Call for Course Proposals

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Date: 30-Nov-2011
From: Tatiana Lando [tatianal.lando at gmail.com]
Subject: RuSSIR 2012: Call for Course Proposals

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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:19:44
From: Tatiana Lando [tatianal.lando at gmail.com]
Subject: RuSSIR 2012: Call for Course Proposals

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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).

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. 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics

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