23.1834, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Russia

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Subject: 23.1834, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Russia

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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:50:01
From: Tatiana Lando [tatianal.lando at gmail.com]
Subject: Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval

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Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval 
Short Title: RuSSIR 

Date: 06-Aug-2012 - 10-Aug-2012 
Location: Yaroslavl, Russia 
Contact: Tatiana Lando 
Contact Email: russir at romip.ru 
Meeting URL: http://romip.ru/russir2012 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

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 Yaroslavl Demidov State University and Russian 
Information Retrieval Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP) with support from the 
MUMIA network.

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 focus 
on multilingual information access, cross-language information 
retrieval, and machine translation.

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 offer up to seven courses and host 
approximately 150 participants.

The previous RuSSIRs took place in Ekaterinburg, Taganrog, 
Petrozavodsk, Voronezh, and Saint Petersburg.

About the Venue:

The city of Yaroslavl is the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, 
located 250 km northeast of Moscow. 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 picturesque confluence of the rivers 
Volga and Kotorosl.

Social Networks Presence:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/29276896052
http://twitter.com/RuSSIR
http://vk.com/russir 

Call for Participation:

About the School:

RuSSIR 2012 will be held on August 6-10, 2012 in Yaroslavl, Russia. 
The school is organized by the Yaroslavl Demidov State University 
(http://www.uniyar.ac.ru) and the Russian Information Retrieval 
Evaluation Seminar (ROMIP, http://romip.ru) with support from the 
MUMIA network (http://www.mumia-network.eu/). Yandex, Google, 
Rambler, HP, and ABBYY are confirmed sponsors of the school.

The RuSSIR series started in 2007 and has developed into a renowned 
academic event with solid international participation. Previous RuSSIR 
courses were taught by Eugene Agichtein, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Ricardo 
Baeza-Yates, Ben Carterette, Fabio Crestani, Djoerd Hiemstra, 
Evangelos Kanoulas, Mounia Lalmas, Marie-Francine Moens, Salvatore 
Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Andreas Rauber, Stefan Rueger, Horacio 
Saggion, Fabrizio Silvestri, Mike Thelwall, Gerhard Weikum, Emine 
Yilmaz, and others.

The mission of the school is to teach students modern techniques and 
applications for Information Retrieval and related disciplines and to 
create environment for contacts among leading researchers, students 
and industry professionals.

The Young Scientists Conference is an essential part of the school 
program. The school is also famous for its versatile social programs. 
The working language of the school is English.

Participation:

The school has as its target audience advanced graduate and PhD 
students, post-doctoral researchers, academic and industrial 
researchers, and developers. The school will admit up to 150 pre- 
selected participants. Selection will be made by program committee 
members based on submitted applications. Each participant is 
expected to present a poster at the Young Scientists Conference; full 
papers are optional. Accepted full papers are published in conference 
proceedings, best papers will be recommended for publishing in 
'Modeling and Analysis of Information Systems' journal.

Participation is free of charge, a number of accommodation grants are 
provided.

RUSSIR 2012 Program:

The foci of this year's edition are multilingual information access, 
cross-language information retrieval, and machine translation. RuSSIR 
2012 offers the following courses:

-Ingmar Weber - An Introduction to Web Science
-Allan Hanbury and Mihai Lupu - Domain Specific Information 
Retrieval (MUMIA course)
-Marta Ruiz Costa-jussa and Maxim Khalilov - The Concept and 
Feasibility of Modern Statistical Machine Translation
-Chirag Shah - IR in Community Question-Answering
-Guillaume Obozinski - Probabilistic Graphical Models for Information 
Retrieval
-Ismail Sengor Altingovde and Nattiya Kanhabua - Dynamics of Web

In addition, the school program will feature invited lectures and the 
sponsors' tech talks. An optional pre-school one-day course 
'Introduction to IR' by Andrew Aksyonoff (Sphinx Technologies Inc.) 
will be given on Sunday, August 5th.

Important Dates:

Young Scientists Conference full papers deadline: 18 May 2012
School application deadline: 25 May 2012
Young Scientists Conference full papers notification: 8 June 2012
School notification of acceptance: 15 June 2012
Young Scientists Conference final papers due: 15 June 2012

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