Presentation

The European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) is a scientific event founded in 1990, which has given rise to a series of Summer Schools held on a regular basis to provide high quality teaching of Information Retrieval (IR) and advanced IR topics to an audience of researchers and research students. ESSIR is typically a week-long event consisting of guest lectures and seminars from invited lecturers who are recognized experts in the field.

The 9th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2013) will be held in Granada, Spain, hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada.

ESSIR 2013 is configured as a 5 days event, from the 2nd till the 6th of September, 2013, which offers high quality teaching on IR and related research topics, in a friendly atmosphere. Some of the topics covered in the school are the following:

• IR Foundations and Formal Models,
• IR Evaluation,
• IR and Social Media,
• Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval,
• Multimedia IR,
• Multilingual IR,
• Interactive IR,
• Contextual Search,
• Opinion Retrieval,
• Search Experience,
• Diversity,
• RecommenderSystems,
• Web Mining, and
• MapReduce.

A new edition of the Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA), will be held at ESSIR 2013, which will provide a forum for early researchers to present their research in a friendly environment, whilst among senior researchers.

All this will have as background the incomparable setting of the beautiful and magical city of GRANADA, one of the top visitor destinations in Spain.