Summer School Programme

Evaluation, Best Practices and Collaboration for Multilingual Information Access

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Preliminary Programme of Lessons

Monday, 15 June

9.00 - 13.00	Multilingual Information Retrieval and Cross-Language Retrieval Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland, and Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Abstract and Course Material
13.00	Lunch
14.30 - 18.00	Multilingual Information Retrieval and Cross-Language Retrieval (cont.)

Tuesday, 16 June

9.00 - 13.00	Image Retrieval Henning Müller, University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Thomas Deselaers, Computer Vision Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zurich, Switzerland Abstract and Course Material\| Recommended Reading
13.00	Lunch
14.30 – 16.00	Information Access & Information Extraction Anselmo Peñas, Department of Computing Languages and Systems, National Distance Learning University, Spain Abstract and Course Material
16.30 - 18.00	Information Extraction in a Multilingual Context Maarten de Rijke, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Abstract and Course Material

Wednesday, 17 June

9.00 – 13.00

System Architectures and Multilinguality
MLIA Architectures: Standalone Applications and Services to Complex Systems
Nicola Ferro, Dept. of Information Engineering,University of Padua, Italy
MLIA Architectures: Advanced Services Beyond Searching
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Dept. of Information Engineering,University of Padua, Italy
Abstract and Course Material

13.00

Lunch

14.30 - 16.30

Mentoring Session (everyone is welcome to attend)
Coordinated by Páraic Sheridan

14.30 - Opinion Mining
Alexandra Balahur-Dobrescu, University of Alicante, Spain
15.00 - Multi-lingual Sentiment Analysis
Taras Zagibalov, University of Sussex, UK
15.30 - Answers from the Quran: Online Information Seeking Needs for Searches related to Faith
Rita Zaharah Wan-Chik, University of Sheffield, UK
16.00 - Arabic Multi-Document Summarization
Mahmoud Osman El-Haj, University of essex, UK

Thursday, 18 June

9.00 – 11.00	Multilingual Search Assistance: Interactive Aspects of Cross Language Information Access Paul Clough, Dept. of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Abstract and Course Material
11.30-13.00	MultiMatch: A Multilingual/Multinedia Search Engine for Cultural Heritage: Interface Design and Demo Paul Clough, Dept. of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom and Franca Debole, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Abstract and Course Material
13.00	Lunch
14.30 – 16.00	Machine Translation for Multilingual Information Processing Marcello Federico, Human language Technology Research, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy Abstract and Course Material
16.30 – 18.00	Multilingual Speech and Video Search Gareth Jones, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Ireland Abstract and Course Material

Friday, 19 June

9.00 – 13.00	Evaluation for (Cross-Language)Information Retrieval Mark Sanderson, Dept. of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Abstract and Course Material
13.00	Lunch
14.30 – 16.00	Commercial Cross-Language Search Páraic Sheridan, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Ireland Abstract and Course Material