4^th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval
September 13-18, 2010, Voronezh

Organizers

Golden sponsor

Bronze sponsors

Young Scientists Conference

Young Scientists Conference in Information Retrieval will be co-organized with the school.

The conference is aimed at:

• Support and intensification of the research in the field of Information Retrieval in Russia;
• Creation of the young scientists community in the field of Information Retrieval, broadening the network of the interuniversity relations between researchers working in this field;
• Helping young scientists in mastering public scientific speaking at the conferences and workshops, discussing works with participation of the specialists in Information Retrieval.

Graduate and postgraduate students, young researchers from academia and industry (under 27 years old), working in the field of Information Retrieval are welcome to participate in the conference.

General topics of the conference:

• Theory and models of Information Retrieval
• Algorithms and data structures for Information Retrieval
• Text Information Retrieval
• Multimedia search
• Text processing in Information Retrieval tasks
• User interfaces for Information Retrieval
• Web search
• Fact extraction, text mining
• Methods of the Information Retrieval evaluation and others.
• Social networks
• Document Tracking and Filtering
• Link Mining
• Query Analysis
• Classification and Clustering

Papers should be submitted in Russian or English and should not exceed 10 pages (please, follow the template). The submission form will be opened on this site from 15^th February.

All the submitted papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee with the assistance of external reviewers.

The authors of the selected papers will be invited to the conference to present their work in poster sessions with short presentations. We also plan to publish the proceedings of the conference.

Important dates:

• 22^th February 2010: Paper submission opening
• 10^th May 2010: Paper submission deadline
• 21^st June 2010: Notification of acceptance
• 12^th July 2010: Camera-ready papers due

Participation in the conference is not a requirement for the participation in the 4th Russian Summer School in Information Retrieval. However, authors of the papers will have preferences when considering school participation.

Organizing Committee

Dmitry Chaly (Yaroslavl State University)
Tatiana Lando (Yandex)
Lidia Pivovarova (St. Petersburg State University)

Contacts

Please send all inquiries to school[at]romip[dot]ru.