Author: Slavko Zitnik

On the fourth day of the ESSIR we had PhD symposiums or presentation of Livingknowledge project work. I have chosen Livingknowledge project: Bias and diversity sessions. In the first part Richard Johannson from Trento presented us Opinion Extraction from coarse to fine-grained methods. For coarse classification (useful for larger text…

Today Ricardo Baeza-Yates was the keynote speaker. He is very famous researcher in the field of Information Retrieval and leads the Yahoo! Research Labs. The keynote was mostly about webscale algorithms and some interesting IR insights. One of them is the notion of adversarial level of access for the internet…

Yesterday, on monday the first lectures have began. At 9a.m. we first got our ids. Then I “outsourced” the printing of my poster to organization team at info-point ;). After some coffee, the keynote of Nigel Shadbolt started. Nigel is a professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of Southampton.…

On the 28th of August 2011, Kaja Vidmar and I went to Koblenz to attent to the 8th European Summer School of Information Retrieval – ESSIR 2011. First we flew from Brnik to Frankfurt at 8 a.m. in the morning. In Frankfurt we bought tickets for regional train to Koblenz…