[InetBib] Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging (ASIRF 2018) - Call for Participation

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Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging

http://asirf.uni-trier.de/

September 16-21, 2018, at the Leibniz Center for Informatics Schloss Dagstuhl 
-http://www.dagstuhl.de/

The Autumn School for Information Retrieval and Information Foraging (ASIRF) 
focuses on recent developments in information retrieval and information seeking 
behaviour and their applications. 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 will also consider the application of methods from information 
retrieval and information behaviour in important application areas like digital 
humanities.

ASIRF 2018 will take place from September 16 to September 21, 2018 in Schloss 
Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany, the renowned meeting centre for computer scientists 
from throughout the world. It provides nine tutorials, from foundations of 
Information Retrieval and Information Foraging over recent research topics such 
as collaborative IR, searching and mining argumentation structure to the 
application of these methods. The lectures are complemented by case studies 
where students can apply their newly acquired knowledge to real research 
problems. Students and lecturers will live together for a week at Schloss 
Dagstuhl, which guarantees for a highly communicative and interactive 
atmosphere of the school. The intended audience of ASIRF are doctoral students, 
young researchers and practitioners from industry working in Information 
Retrieval, Information Foraging or using concepts or methods from these fields.

The following tutorials will be offered:
* Information Behaviour and User Interfaces (Christa Womser-Hacker, University 
of Hildesheim, Germany)
* Foundations of Information Retrieval (Ingo Frommholz, University of 
Bedfordshire, United Kingdom)
* Interactive Information Retrieval (Norbert Fuhr, University of 
Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
* Collaborative Information Retrieval (TBA)
* Methodology of Interactive Information Retrieval Studies (Pia Borlund, Oslo 
and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences)
* Information Retrieval for the Digital Humanities (Andreas Henrich, University 
of Bamberg, Germany)
* Fake News Detection (Ahmet Aker, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
* Argumentation Retrieval and Analysis (Henning Wachsmuth, University of 
Paderborn, Germany)
* Information Retrieval Systems (Ralf Schenkel, University of Trier, Germany)

Further information on the school, including information on registration and accommodation fees and a registration form, can be found athttp://asirf.uni-trier.de/  
Early registration with reduced fees is possible until July 15, 2018.

Organisation:
* Ralf Schenkel, University of Trier, Germany
* Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
* Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire, UK
* German Special Interest Group on IR