Below is the schedule of the summer school and the slides of the presentations. Our programme comprises a mixture of foundational lectures as well as specialist topics in Information Retrieval and AI. We will explore topics from a theoretical and practical perspective. Please note there might be last minute changes.
Note: For those requiring a certificate, we have prepared an exam.
Please also see our list of speakers and topics.
Talks
Hackathon – Daniel Dan & Alessandro Benedetti [Slides]
Say Hello to IR – Ingo Frommholz [Slides]
Foundations of IR Models – Thomas Roelleke [Slides]
IR Evaluation– Ingo Frommholz [Slides]
Relevance Feedback –Anirban Chakraborty [Slides]
Agentic and Conversational Systems –Yue Feng and Mubashir Ali [Slides]
RAG Systems – Alessandro Benedetti [Slides]
Adaptive RAG and Beyond – Xi Wang [Slides]
Introduction to Generative AI – Anna Wróblewska [Slides]
Data Management for IR – Florina Piroi [Slides]
NeuraSearch: Brain Machine Interfaces & Information Retrieval –Yashar Moshfeghi [Slides]
Designing the Search Experience – Tony Russell-Rose [Slides]
Scholarly Document Processing in Action: Shared Tasks and a Real-World Application – Philipp Mayr [Slides]
Neural Retrieval and Re-Ranking – Sean MacAvaney [Slides]
Peeking Under the Hood: Interpretability and Explainability in IR – Catherine Chen [Slides]