Advances in Information Retrieval 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 1-5, 2012. Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Baeza-Yates, Ricardo (Editor), Vries, Arjen P. de (Editor), Zaragoza, Hugo (Editor), Cambazoglu, B. Barla (Editor), Murdock, Vanessa (Editor), Lempel, Ronny (Editor), Silvestri, Fabrizio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7224
• Subjects: Computer science.; Database management.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Multimedia information systems.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Database Management.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Multimedia Information Systems.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
• Physical Description: XXIV, 588 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783642289972
• ISSN: 0302-9743 ;

This book constitutes the proeedings of the 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2012. The 37 full papers, 28 poster papers and 7 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The contributions are organized in sections named: query representation; blogs and online-community search; semi-structured retrieval; evaluation; applications; retrieval models; image and video retrieval; text and content classification, categorisation, clustering; systems efficiency; industry track; and posters.