ESSIR- European Summer School of Information Retrieval

Essir is the only world-wide school in Information Retrieval. It’s a scientific event with temporal regularity founded in 1990, which gave rise to a series of Summer Schools held to provide high quality teaching of information retrieval and advanced information retrieval topics to a mostly European audience of researchers and research students. Essir is typically a week-long event consisting of a series of lectures and seminars delivered from invited lecturers recognized as experts in the field.

Two books have been prepared as readings in IR from editions of ESSIR:

	ESSIR 2000: Agosti, M., Crestani, F. and Pasi, G. (Eds): "Lectures on Information Retrieval". Revised Lectures of Third European Summer-School, ESSIR 2000 Varenna, Italy, September 11-15, 2000. LNCS Vol. 1980, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2001.
	ESSIR 2009: Melucci, M., and Baeza-Yates, R. (Eds): "Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval". The Information Retrieval Series, Vol. 33, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.