Advances in Information Retrieval 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008. Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Macdonald, Craig (Editor), Ounis, Iadh (Editor), Plachouras, Vassilis (Editor), Ruthven, Ian (Editor), White, Ryen W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4956
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Multimedia information systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Multimedia Information Systems.
• Physical Description: XXI, 722 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540786467
• ISSN: 0302-9743 ;

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.