文档介绍：Lecture Notes puter Science 2997
Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen
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Advances in
Information Retrieval
26th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2004
Sunderland, UK, April 5-7, 2004
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Preface
These proceedings contain the refereed full technical papers presented at the 26th
Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004). ECIR is
the annual conference of the puter Society’s specialist group in Infor-
mation Retrieval. This year the conference was held at the School puting
and Technology at the University of Sunderland ECIR began life as the An-
nual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research. The colloquium was held
in the UK each year until 1998 when the event was held in Grenoble, France.
Since then the conference venue has alternated between the United Kingdom
and Continental Europe, and the event was renamed the European Conference
on Information Retrieval. In recent years, ECIR has continued to grow and has
e the major European forum for the discussion of research in the field of
Information Retrieval. To mark this metamorphosis from a small informal col-
loquium to a major event in the IR research calendar, the BCS-IRSG decided
to rename the event to the European Conference on Information Retrieval.
ECIR 2004 received 88 full paper submissions, from across Europe and further
afield including Nor