_________________________________________________________________________ ESSIR 2019 12th EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL and FDIA 2019 9th Ph.D. SYMPOSIUM ON FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN INFORMATION ACCESS JULY 15th - 19th, 2019 Milan, Italy http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/essir2019/ essir2019 (at) unimib (dot) it _________________________________________________________________________ ### VISION ### The 12th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2019) marks the 30th anniversary of ESSIR. It will be held at the University of Milan Bicocca, Milan, Italy, jointly organized by the Information Retrieval Laboratory (IR Lab) at the University of Milan Bicocca and the Information Management Systems (IMS) research group at the University of Padua. ESSIR 2019 will be a 5-day event (15-19 July, 2019) that will offer a high quality teaching on IR and related research topics, in a friendly atmosphere. A new edition of the Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) will also be held at ESSIR 2019, which will provide a forum for early researchers to present their research in a friendly environment, whilst among senior researchers. We invite students and researchers to participate in ESSIR 2019. The mission of the school is to enable students to learn about modern research challenges and methods in information retrieval and related disciplines; to stimulate scientific research and collaboration in these fields; and to grow a community of researchers, students, and industry professionals working on information retrieval with collaborations all around the world. The target audience are master students, PhD students, PostDoc students and junior faculty. The 9th PhD Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2019) will be held in conjunction with the 12th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2019). The symposium aims to provide a forum for participants of the summer school to share their research and interaction with senior researchers in an informal and relaxed atmosphere. A separate call will be issued for submitting papers to FDIA 2019. The last day of the school there will be a small exams to award 1.5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) to the attendees Information about ESSIR2019 program, speakers, registration and more is already available on our website, and more information will be posted continuously also on the Twitter with the hashtag #essir2019. Hope to see you all in Milan! ### SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM ### Monday 15 July 2019 - Foundations of IR, Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Approaches to Research in IR, W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA - Foundations of Evaluation 1, Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy - Foundations of Evaluation 2, Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain Tuesday 16 July 2019 Morning - Foundations of User-oriented IR 1, Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA - Foundations of User-oriented IR 2, Diane Kelly, University of Tennessee, USA - Foundations of Machine Learning for IR, Claudia Hauff, TU Delft, The Netherlands - Foundations of Personalized IR, Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Wednesday 17 July 2019 - Efficiency and scalability in IR, Nicola Tonellotto, ISTI, CNR, Italy - Social Media Analytics, Carlos Castillo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain - FDIA Workshop – Ingo Frommholz, Haiming Liu, and Yashar Moshfeghi (Chairs) Thursday 18 July 2019 - Medical IR, Henning Muller, HES-SO Valais, Switzerland - Entity Linking for IR in Cultural Heritage, Seamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Panel on: Teaching and Learning IR in Academia and Industry, Maristella Agosti (Chair) - Recommender Systems, Paolo Cremonesi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Friday 19 July 2019 - Task-based IR, Emine Yilmaz, University College London, UK - Biases on Web Search and Recommender Systems, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT, USA - Students Challenge/Assessment – To recognize 1.5 credits, on Friday afternoon there will be a “contest” to which the students will participate. ### REGISTRATION ### Early Registration (until June 15th, 2019) at: http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/essir2019/registration/ ### SCHOLARSHIPS ### A number of scholarships covering the registration fees will be offered to MSc/MPhil/PhD students and Early Stage Researchers. ESSIR participants who will submit FDIA papers will be given priority for the ESSIR scholarships and they should acknowledge their sponsors in their papers/posters/slides. More info at: http://www.ir.disco.unimib.it/essir2019/scholarships/ ### ORGANIZATION ### ESSIR 2019 Organisation - Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy - Gabriella Pasi, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy FDIA 2019 Organisation - Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire, UK - Haiming Liu, University of Bedfordshire, UK - Yashar Moshfeghi, University of Strathclyde, UK Local Organization - Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy