TLIR 2007 First International Workshop on Teaching and Learning of Information Retrieval

Date: 

The workshop will be held on Wednesday 10th January 2007.

Workshop Program

Session 1: E-learning and Learning Environments for teaching IR
- Design experiment on two information retrieval learning environments, Kai Halttunen.
- IR-BASE: An Integrated Framework for the Research and Teaching of Information Retrieval Technologies, Pável Calado, Ana Cardoso-Cachopo, Arlindo L. Olivera.
- Information Retrieval as eLearning Course in German Lessons Learned after 5 Years of Experience, Andreas Henrich and Karlheinz Morgenroth.
- A Software Tool to Teach the Performance of Fuzzy IR Systems based on Weighted Queries, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Sergio Alonso, Francisco J. Cabrerizo, Antonio G. Lopez-Herrera, and Carlos Porcel.
- A flexible object-oriented system for teaching and learning structured IR, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete and Alfonso E. Romero.

Session 2: S trategies and Mathematics for Teaching IR
- Pedagogic challenges in Information Retrieval: teaching mathematics to Postgraduate Information Science students, Andrew MacFarlane.
- Using Research Questions to Encourage Creativity and Assess Understanding in Teaching of Information Retrieval, Gareth F. J. Jones.
- Teaching of Web IR: Web first or IR first? Stefano Mizzaro.

Session 3: Circula and evaluation
- Information retrieval curricula; contexts and perspectives, David Bawden, Polona Vilar, Jessica Bates, Jela Steinerov, Pertti Vakkari.
- Integrating standard test collections in interactive IR instruction, Eija Airio, Eero Sormunen, Kai Halttunen, Heikki Keskustalo.

Registration

The registration form can be downloaded from:
http://tlir07.soi.city.ac.uk/. All registrations are handled by BCS in Swindon, please contact Phil Dyson on +44 (0)1793-417656, or
phil.dyson@hq.bcs.org.uk if you have any enquires. Fees for the workshop are £80 for BCS or IRSG members, and £100 for non members.

Location

The workshop will be held in the BCS HQ building, First Floor, The Davidson
Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA. Directions can be found
on the BCS web site: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5843.