ESSIR'03
Welcome

Welcome to the web site of the 4th edition of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR'03). This site guides you through the different aspects, from photographs and programme to lecturers and lectures, of the summer school that took place between August 31th and September 5th 2003 in Aussois, France. The European Summer School on Information Retrieval was organized by the Modeling and Retrieval of Multimedia Information of CLIPS, Grenoble.

A small poster (pdf format, 108KB) can be downloaded here.

 Objectives

This four and a half day course gave participants a high level exposure on the core subjects related to Information Retrieval (IR), including:

• Theoretical models for IR,
• Structured and Web Document Indexing and Retrieval,
• Multimedia Document Indexing and Retrieval,
• Multilingual Document Indexing and Retrieval,
• User Interaction,
• Evaluation.

The lecturers of ESSIR 2003 are the leading researchers in the field of IR in Europe.

 History of ESSIR

ESSIR'03 was the fourth European School in Information Retrieval. The first one, ESSIR was organised by the University of Padova (Prof. Maristella Agosti) and was held in Bressanone, Italy, in 1990. The second ESSIR was organised by the University of Glasgow (Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen) and held in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1995, in conjunction with the BCS Colloquium in Information Retrieval, a IRIDES project meeting, and the final MIRO workshop. The third ESSIR was organised by Dr. Gabriela Pasi, Prof. Maristella Agosti and Dr. Fabio Crestani, and took place in Varenna, Italy, in 2000.

 Committees

The presidents of the Summer School are Prof. Catherine Berrut and Prof. Yves Chiaramella.

Organizing Committee:

• Prof. Catherine Berrut (Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble)
• Prof. Marie-France Bruandet (Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble)
• Prof. Yves Chiaramella (Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble)
• Assoc. Prof. Jean-Pierre Chevallet (Pierre Mendès-France University - Grenoble)
• Assoc. Prof. Christophe Brouard (Pierre Mendès-France University - Grenoble)
• Assoc. Prof. Nathalie Denos (Pierre Mendès-France University - Grenoble)
• Dr. Georges Quénot (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
• Dr. Philippe Mulhem (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

 Program Committee:

• PRESIDENT: Prof. Yves Chiaramella (Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble)
• Prof. Catherine Berrut (Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble)
• Prof. Marie-France Bruandet (Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble)
• Prof. Maristella Agosti (University of Padua)
• Prof. Peter Ingwersen (Royal School of Library and Information Science - Copenhagen)
• Prof. Fabio Crestani (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)
• Prof. Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University)
• Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen (University of Glasgow)
• Prof. Steve Robertson (Microsoft Research - Cambridge, City University - London)

 Sponsors

ESSIR'03 was sponsored by:

	École Doctorale Maths-Infos, UFR IMA