ASIRF 2023: Autumn School 2023 - Information Retrieval and Information Foraging

Beschreibung

Application process

The application phase ended 15 August 2023 - We are looking forward to an exiting autumn school!

The autumn school will take place at Schloss Dagstuhl and will be free of charge. Thanks to our generous sponsors, there will be no fees, no costs for accommodation, and free full-service meals at Schloss Dagstuhl. Please be aware that we can not pay for your travel costs.

We have room for approx. 20 participants. Therefore, we have to ensure that students have a particular background and context knowledge in information retrieval and/or information foraging. We ask you kindly to describe your motivation and background in a short paragraph. The deadline to send this application is 15 August 2023. We will check every application and give feedback by 18 August 2023, but we reserve the right to decline applications due to overbooking or a lack of topical match to the autumn school. 

Hope to see you all at Dagstuhl.

Introduction

The Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging (ASIRF) focuses on recent developments in Information Retrieval and Information-Seeking behavior and their applications. Information Retrieval deals with searching in huge amounts of unstructured data. In many professional fields of work and everyday life, access to text data via search engines is one of the most important forms of access to knowledge. Information Foraging aims to model the entire process from the awareness of an information problem through selecting appropriate information sources to the actual search.

ASIRF provides a holistic perspective of the two fields and shows how Information Retrieval and Information Foraging interact. In addition to conceptual and methodological knowledge from both fields, ASIRF is highly interdisciplinary. The autumn school will provide eight tutorials, from foundations of Information Retrieval and Information Foraging to recent research topics such as rich language models like BERT or applications of IR techniques in foreign domains like Digital Humanities.

Students and lecturers will live together for a week at Schloss Dagstuhl, which guarantees the school's traditionally highly communicative and interactive atmosphere. The intended audience of ASIRF are doctoral students and young researchers working in Information Retrieval, Information Foraging, or using concepts or methods from these fields in their research domains.

Planned topics and tutors

• Introduction to Information Behavior (Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim)
• Foundations of Interactive Information Retrieval and Evaluation (Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen)
• Deep Learning for IR (Avishek Anand, TU Delft)
• Explanations for Information Retrieval (Christin Seifert, Marburg University)
• Living Labs for Evaluating Search and Recommendation Services (Philipp Schaer, TH Koeln)
• Professional Search (Udo Kruschwitz, University of Regensburg)
• Conversational Search (Mohammad Alian Nejadi, University of Amsterdam)
• Argument Mining and Retrieval (Ralf Schenkel, Trier University)
• User Experiments (Gerd Berget, Oslo Metropolitan University)
• Task-based Information Interaction (Sanna Kumpulainen, Tampere University)

Organisation

• Prof. Dr. Philipp Schaer (TH Koeln, Germany)
• Prof. Dr. Ralf Schenkel (Trier University, Germany) 
• Prof. Dr. Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
• German Special Interest Group IR, Gesellschaft für Informatik

Sponsors

• ACM SIGIR 
• Fachbereich Datenbanken und Informationssysteme, Gesellschaft für Informatik
• PLan_CV, funded by BMBF