31 August 2011, Koblenz, Germany

In 2007, the first BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA) was established to provide a forum for early career researchers to present, share and discuss research, which is at a more formative or tentative stage. The symposium was run in conjunction with the 6th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR) which was held in Glasgow. The second symposium was held in London, UK in September, 2008 collocated with Search Solutions, while the third symposium was again collocated with ESSIR in Padua, Italy. Now in its fourth year, the 2011 Future Directions in Information Access Symposium was held as part of the 8th European Summer School in Information Retrieval.

Symposium aims

The objectives of the Symposium on the Future Directions in Information Access are:

• to provide an accessible forum for early researchers (particularly PhD students, and researchers new to the field) to share and discuss their research;
• to create and foster formative and tentative research ideas;
• to encourage discussion and debate about new future directions.

Sponsors:
BCS-IRSG (Information Retrieval Specialist Group)
Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)
European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR)

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