Advances in Information Retrieval: 30th European Conference on IR Research, Ecir 2008, Glasgow, Uk, March 30 -- April 3, 2008 (Paperback)
Craig MacDonald; Iadh Ounis; Vassilis Plachouras
Springer
9783540786450
3-540-78645-7
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008. The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.